Mina Candy- Vocals, screaming, dubious songwriting, Guitar
K* Starr- Not the 50's singer but Ace of Bass, reluctant backing vocals, songwriting & sweet-eating
Helen R.- "Le Batteuse", backing vocals & owner of an Evil Twin
Sarah-Tegan- May be coming back soon..
Influences
We all like; Sleater-Kinney, Le Tigre, good books
Mina Likes; Magnetic Fields, Mclusky, Scout Niblett, Ramones, Clash, Gillian Welch, Patrick Wolf, Dirtblode, Priscillas, Bright Eyes
K* likes; Kenickie, Bikini Kill, Savage Lucy, We Start Fires, Gravy Train!!!!, The Cherrybombers, PJ Harvey, Elastica, Ladytron, Giant Drag, Das Wanderlust many many more
Helen likes; Kaia/Butchies, Team Dresch, Throwing Muses, Kate Bush, Penelope Swales
Sounds Like
A clattering rollercoaster full of kids stuffed with chocolate & ice cream
"Fruit Is Nature's Candy!" is available from Cherryade Records NOW!!!! Go buy it!! 6 ace fizzy punk-pop choons on bubblygum-pink vinyl!
Track listing:
What's He Got That I Haven't?
Operator
Heartbreaker
I Didn't Do It
Spending Time With You
Lonely Life At Sea
Order it from..
For booking info, or to join our mailing list, email us direct at candy_panicattack@yahoo(dot)com. We're dead nice.
”Ok, We’re young, rich, and full of sugar. Now what do we do?”
Fuelled by chaos, sweets & tea, our unpredictable live shows have taken us to such exotic ports of call as Brighton, Liverpool, Leeds, Barnsley (yes, Barnsley), Cardiff & many of London’s hotspots, supporting the likes of Kate Nash, The Hot Puppies, Das Wanderlust, Dirtblonde, & The Smears along the way, we’ve also appeared at Ladyfest Cardiff, and on Squirrel Records Nut Boppin Whoppers, Cherryade’s A Very Cherry Christmas Vol 2 Cds, and the Female Trouble Collective compilation, winning praise for their sugar rush pop from all over. Our debut Ep, “Fruit Is Nature's Candy!” 6 short sharp blasts of candy pop genius came out last November on Cherryade Records, and has been played on Huw Stephens' Radio 1 show, Resonance FM, OK Radio Bremen & Raadio 2 in Estonia(!) among many others! Go to www.cherryademusic.co.uk for info!! With a collective love for 2-minute, hit n run punk-pop songs CPA are the perfect antidote to boring, overproduced, 3-songs-per-half-hour indie -schmindie bands, tackling such subjects as screwed-up relationships (and what to do about them!), bad moods, loneliness, and the horrors of commuting, yet we still sound & look so cute & loveable? Expect the unexpected.
Here’s wot the press have been saying about us..
"Bonafide lo-fi which laughs in the overproduced face of punk pretenders, get some"- Culture Deluxe
"Punk spirit, great pace, incisive guitar & the kinda shouty girl noise that Lesbo Pig did so well, glorious, get it!"- Alex, Shadowplay
"(CPA) play classic Brit punk pure & simple.. Think Slits or X Ray Spex, Riot Grrl with a Sarf Essex accent., and all the mischief & chaos that made the Toy Dolls massive for 5 minutes"- Alison B, Alternative Magazine
"..lo-fi riot grrl punk rock resembles a grungier version of Helen Love, and mighty fine they are too"- Sophia, Noisy!
"A do-not-mess take-it-or-leave-it attitude- vital love-heart crunching DIY lo-fi riot grrrl punk fizz & sugar rush chaos"- Sean, Organ Magazine
"Utter shit in audible format.. This shouldn't be allowed"- Thom Curtis, Tasty Fanzine.. There's always one.
"Simply stunning, shambling noise pop.. This is near enough perfect punk-pop to these ears" Trev, indiemp3.co.uk
"Tenacious & damned feisty.. these cuties stump up short but bitterly sweet ditties of (from both sides of the fence) ‘fuck you love’ prickly buzz pop.. hints aplenty that these kids spend their free evenings around the hi-fi bouncing off the walls to the back catalogue of K Records.. Charging out of the traps with much gusto as though on some urgent life threatening mission to deliver spiked mixer shots of humour, sarcasm & spite filled angst, the Candies are not million miles removed in terms of sound to X-Ray Spex albeit scalded with the unenviable thrust of Sleater-Kinney & the crookedly insane bubblegum buzz of The Shaggs.. If that don’t slap across the head & jab in your eye in an attempt to rouse you from your lethargic listening habits then nothing will"- Mark Barton, Losing Today
Suck My Left One is pleased to announce an interview with the one and only Poly Styrene from X-Ray Spex, on tonight's show, 1am GMT. Poly talks about their upcoming reunion gig, politics, punk, feminism and living in a consumerist nightmare. For details of how to listen live or download the podcast check out my page.
Hi K, was gonna write on 'your' page but thought you were more likely to read on the CPA one?! Sounds like your band(s) are gonna be hitting the roads soon? It's one of my targets for the year to see you guys live!
Seen Portishead / Fratellis / Make Model in last few days, all gigged showed out! Fun tho.
Hey, Yeah it was really bad, barely made it to the gig myself! Cool to see you at the Good Ship, onstage 10.30pm, we're filming it for a video, £2 with flyer Ros WRLGDx
The SISTERS OF REVOLUTION March 2008 show on 9thfloorradio. com/ will air March 7th from 1pm-3pm, Californian time, which is 9pm-11pm British time. If you miss the live stream you can download show(s) from our blog page @ 9th Floor Radio - ----------HERE-------
MANIC STREET PREACHERS Motorcycle Emptiness BLACK KEYS Strange Times WENDY JAMES I'm Freaking Out THOSE DANCING DAYS Hitten MAN OR ASTRO-MAN Television Fusion AIDAN JOHN MOFFAT International Valentine AIDAN JOHN MOFFAT Cunts CHUCK DUKOWSKI SEXTET This For You [To My Children] WISHBONE ASH Ballad Of The Beacon BELLA Give It A Might RADAR BROS. When Cold Air Goes To Sleep SOUP DRAGONS Whole Wide World AMBROSE TOMPKINS I Looked For You Everywhere CANDY PANIC ATTACK What's He Got That I Haven't BEACH HOUSE Gila CHATHAM COUNTY LINE Clear Blue Sky LUPINE HOWL 125 --------------------------------------------------------------------- WEBSITE : www. popscenewithjalal. com MYSPACE SITE : www. myspace. com/popscenewithjalal --------------------------------------------------------------------- POPSCENE with J*A*L*A*L OK Radio Bremen [Germany] 92.5 FM [antenne] / 101.85 FM [cable] Fridays at 19 hrs [since 1994]</p>
RAVEONETTES Forever In Your Arms CANDY PANIC ATTACK What's He Got That I Haven't TINDERSTICKS Marbles A TOYS ORCHESTRA Modern Lucky Man JUST JOANS Bellshill Station LUMINOUS ORANGE Icicles LUMINOUS ORANGE Shigatsu No Yoru BAD COMPANY Bad Company STANDARD FARE 15 [Nothing Happened] KILLS U.R.A. Fever BLACK MOUNTAIN Stormy High RIDERS My Soldier YELLOW MOON BAND Maybach MORRISSEY That's How People Grow-Up THISTLETOWN Rosemarie URUSEI YATSURA Phasers On Stun --------------------------------------------------------------------- WEBSITE : www.popscenewithjalal.com MYSPACE SITE : www.myspace.com/popscenewithjalal --------------------------------------------------------------------- POPSCENE with J*A*L*A*L OK Radio Bremen [Germany] 92.5 FM [antenne] / 101.85 FM [cable] Fridays at 19 hrs [since 1994]
