The long-awaited gig was a huge success!
Here's what Isabel had to say:
Dear Drugsters,
A heartfelt thank you to everyone who came to Dingwalls.
We're still recovering from excessive happiness, and pretty proud that, with your help, it was a sell-out show. You won't have to wait another 7 years for the next one - it's a promise.
x
Drugstore
Check out the review and new photos HERE.
Isabel also has a blog! Check it out here:
http://isabelmonteiro1.blogspot.com/
-Daron, Isabel, Mike, Ian. X"
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"Please listen to this music in the dark, with your headphones on loud, very isolated from the rest of the world. Because it is not 'today' music, it's more of a time that exists in your head." -Isabel Monteiro
Drugstore is a British-based three-piece pop rock band comprising Brazilian singer and bassist Isabel Monteiro, drummer Mike Chylinski, and guitarist Daron Robinson. Specialising in a mellow and often dreamy sound, Drugstore released their debut single "Alive" in 1993. Their eponymous debut album followed in 1995. They recorded a song with Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke titled "El Presidente," which was included on their second album 'White Magic for Lovers'.
Drugstore. A unique band; back to give the world more beauty and music journalists more headaches. When they unleashed their eponymous debut album in March 1995 British music critics practically exhausted their thesauruses in heaping praise upon Drugstore. Melody Maker described their music as "delicious poisonmusic with an irresistibly morbid glamour. Sex and addictive chemicals and evil sounds, mixed and stirred into beautifully sad, delightfully diseased songsthat veer between vulnerability and viciousness, compassion and contempt". NME described Brazilian born Isabel as combining "the vampish sexuality of Nico with the world-weary femme fatality of Marianne Faithful".
Drugstore was born in 1992 when Isabel and American drummer Mike Chylinski, two drifters in a succession of bands met via a flatshare. They began writing material and slowly piecing together a band. In May 1993 the band pressed up 500 copies of their debut single "Alive" on their own Honey label rather than sending out demos to record labels. Not only did it sell out but it was awarded Melody Makers Single Of The Week and led to Drugstore signing a publishing deal a couple of months later, "It was a shock because we were under the impression that you needed to have friends in high places", recalls Isabel. "Were not the sort of people who socialise and hang out, yet we kept getting all these offers". By this time Daron Robinson had joined as another in a succession of guitarists, but he clicked and the band moved on to bigger and better things - a limited edition single "Modern Pleasure" through Rough Trades Singles Club and shows with Smashing Pumpkins, Lemonheads, Echobelly and the Tindersticks.
In March 1994 Drugstore signed to Go! Discs and release two singles "Starcrossed" and "Solitary Party Groover" that increased their growing fan-base and turned them into real critics favourites. 1995 saw the release of the single "Nectarine" as a taster for the bands full length debut album.
Drugstore, the album was released in March 1995 to a wave of glowing critical reviews. Isabel said of the album that, "We wanted to keep the sound really naked and give it a raw edge" and the stripped-down arrangements highlighted the bands unflinching vision and refreshing lack of cynicism. It was this that made Drugstore stand out from the crop of also-ran, wannabe Britpop boys and place them in their own beguiling and seductive position. Drugstore, the album went on to win the hearts of many fans throughout the world and resulted in numerous festival appearances throughout Europe and America.
However, just as the band completed their second album, Go! Discs hit problems with its parent company so Drugstore moved to leading independent label Roadrunner Records and in April 98 they released their first single in nearly two years. "El Presidente" was a duet between Isabel and Radioheads Thom Yorke and swept on to playlists throughout the UK, resulting in the bands first Top 20 placing.
El Presidente, Drugstore (with Thom Yorke)
The second album White Magic For Lovers was released soon after and was greeted with almost universal acclaim. More singles followed including the epic "Sober" and live favourite "Say Hello" with its clarion call to "all the drunkards, the prostitutes and freaks" and Drugstore toured Britain and Europe, building their devoted army of fans with every show. In fact, their profile rose so much that they even appeared in saucy features in Sky Magazine and in demonstrations calling for the trial of murderous Chilean dictator Augustus Pinochet.
In 1999 Drugstore kept up a string of appearances at festivals throughout the world, while the band took stock of their position. Without a label after Roadrunner decided to concentrate on its core audience of heavy metal, Drugstore were once again free to choose their own destiny. Isabel kept writing songs in preparation for the bands third album while the other band members pursued their own musical agendas.
Finally, after a bidding war between interested labels Drugstore decided to sign with another independent, in the form of Global Warming Records. The deal was inked in March and the band headed straight into Battery Studios in West London and recorded their album Songs For The Jetset in just ten days. The resulting work is their best yet full of hope and love, loss and sorrow, pain and beauty in equal measures, all sprinkled with that indefinable Drugstore magic.
Part of no scene but a world entirely of their own making, Drugstore have a vital new sound to offer. Sink into the star-drenched beauty of their midnight melancholia and discover it for yourself. They take their name from the Gus Van Saint film Drugstore Cowboy.
DISCOGRAPHY
1995 - Drugstore
1998 - White Magic for Lovers
2003 - Songs for the Jet Set / Collector Number 1WHERE TO BUY DRUGSTORE MUSIC
Click HERE to buy Songs for The Jet Set MP3's from Amazon.com!
Click HERE to buy Collector Number 1 MP3's from Amazon.com!
You can also buy Drugstore tracks and albums from iTunes.
Click HERE to buy Collector Number 1 on iTunes!
Click HERE to buy Songs for the Jet Set on iTunes!
Click HERE to buy their single Old Shoes on iTunes!
Unfortunately, their debut album Drugstore and White Magic For Lovers are out of print and are currently unavailable for digital download anywhere. However, you can find copies of these gems from Amazon.com sellers HERE!
And I just love solidatry party groover - its so how I feel right now. I wish people knew more about you, you have been 2getha a long time, geat sounds...lets rock n roll x
Happy Holidays! Wanted to let you know that we are coming to the UK for the first time, and playing a place called the Half Moon Putney on Jan. 15th!
We are opening for Kevin Montgomery (http://www.myspace.com/kevinmontgomery2) and we are getting to play with one of our idols.......Al Perkins. He has played with the Rolling Stones, The Eagles, Gram Parsons, Emmylou Harris.....and played on our new record.
Anyway, hope to meet you when we come! Take care, Shurman
Isabel also has a blog! Check it out here:
1998 - White Magic for Lovers
2003 - Songs for the Jet Set / Collector Number 1
WHERE TO BUY DRUGSTORE MUSIC
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