Biography
Miss Pain are a glam-fisted girl/ boy electro-shock pop trio, based in Hove, Sussex, UK.
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- Roxy Music + The Cramps + Devo + The Make*Up + Add N to (X) + Joe Meek + Stereo Total + Soft Cell + Adam Ant + Serge Gainsbourg + Girl Groups + Yeah Yeah Yeahs + Ye-Ye + Pulp.
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- DISCOGRAPHY
• Carrion Call EP (Nylon!Friction!) SEP 07
- • Girl Monster (women in music from punk to now, compiled by Chicks On Speed) SEP 06
- Feat. ‘Sell it 2 the Kids (megaphone version)’ plus tracks by The Slits, Le Tigre, Delta 5, Björk, Cobra Killer, The Raincoats, Erase Errata, etc.
- • Do Me More Electro!!!! (compiled by Parisian electro-sluts Fatale) AUG 06
- Feat. ‘Tapped Yr Phone’ plus tracks by Motormark, Crack W.A.R., Revl9n, and Gravy Train.
- • Electronic Bible chapter 2 (compiled by Ann Shenton – Add N to (X)/Large Number) MAR 06
- Feat. ‘F* Machines’, “a searing Ballardian synthscrape... The Normal-with-a-wide-on” (Plan B)
- • ‘Heartbreaker’ / ‘Caught My Eye’ (ltd 7”) APR 05 Tbilissi Recordings
- “arch proof that the cheaper music sounds, the more potent it becomes.” The Fly magazine
- • ‘EBFH’ / ‘Campari & Sex’ (ltd 7”) DEC 04 Tbilissi Recordings
- “Heartbreaking and sordid… move over Peaches.” Rough Trade
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- ACROSS THE AIRWAVES, IN THE CLUBS
- Miss Pain have picked up radio play both nationally and locally, and across the Internet, with support from Steve Lamacq (Radio 1, 6 Music), Clare Kember (www.totallywired.co.uk), Marc Riley (6 Music), John Kennedy (XFM), and Huw Stephens (Radio 1) who selected ‘Sell it 2 the Kids’ as his unsigned track of the week.
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They have supported Le Tigre, The Gossip, The Pipettes, 80’s Matchbox B-line Disaster, and Gravy Train!!!!, whilst their hometown self-promoted DIY live-art-performance spectacles have featured guests such as Stazi, Hawnay Troof, Simon Bookish, and Motormark.
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- “Trashier than a night of Lambrini in your perverted uncle’s caravan, and fun if you can stomach it.” (NME, November 2006)
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- “Come lick the future, it tastes like childhood cast in chrome.” (Plan B, May 2004)
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- “Roxy Music meets Add N to (X) inside a very small art-deco elevator that goes up to Cramps hell. Bliss.” (www.20jazzfunkgreats.blogspot.com, July 2005)
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- “I’d be very careful if I ever met Miss Pain.” (Robots and Electronic Brains fanzine, March 2005)
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- www.misspain.co.uk
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.