Brian, East River Pipe, The Byrds, Kraftwerk, The Red Guitars, Pete Wylie, Vince Clark, Joy Division, Brighter, Harper Lee, the Field Mice, Trembling Blue Stars, Serge Gainsbourg, Herge, Saint Etienne, The Wake, Belle and Sebastian, Badly Drawn Boy, John Lennon, The Undertones, Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine, Depeche Mode, The Osmonds, Gus Dudgeon, Elvis Costello, New Order, The Wombles, Dollar, The Clash, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Daft Punk, The Korgis, Art Spiegelman, Coronation Street, Suede, Aqualung, Craig Thompson, Carol King, Echo and the Bunnymen, Ladytron, The Cure, Bladerunner, John Barry, Michael Caine, John Peel, Dick Lester, Dick Lovejoy, Gnarls Barkley, Jeff Buckly, Banksy, Louis Theroux, Futurama, Graham Greene, The Velvet Underground, The Mull Historical Society, OMD, The Kinks, The Cocteau Twins, Daniel Clowes, Everything But the Girl, David Bowie, the rain falling on the south downs.
Alex Sharkey, front man of Sussex based Pinkie has been writing songs of delicate beauty for many years. His words have always conjured up images of unrequited love and secret dreams, his tunes soar away from you with breathless speed. Although the sounds he creates rely on the bed-rock of orchestras of guitars, there is often the underlying rhythmic threat created by loops, samples and studio trickery.
Alex was one third of the band Brighter who released acoustic pop records on the iconic Sarah Records label throughout the nineties. Brighter regularly appeared in theNME charts and became firm favourites of John Peel. The mini-LP "Laurel" is still quoted as an influence by many bands. After the demise of Brighter, Alex and fellow Brighter member, Keris Howard, experimented with indie electro-pop, as Hal, releasing a successful EP, "Election Day" on the Vinyl Japan label. The EP was acknowledged as the perfect juxtaposition between Keris’ bitter-sweet lyrics and Alex’s charming arrangements. In 2001, Alex became part of the creative force behind Fosca on Shinkansen Records. Fosca became an ideal outlet for Alex’s musical creative force, the highlight of which was the acclaimed album ‘On Earth to Make the Numbers Up’.
It was time, however, for Alex to do things entirely his way, and, inspired by the anti-hero Pinkie Brown form Graham Greene’s novel "Brighton Rock", Pinkie came into being.
Pinkie received critical acclaim from the European underground music scene as well as the US indiepop/college rock market, for it's quintessential jangle guitar style, evoking eras from the Byrds to Another Sunny Day mixed with atmospheric melodic mood pieces. In 2001 the CDEP "My Little Experiment (PSRCD-011) was released on the Planting Seeds label. The release was well received with one reviewer stating: "seven great tracks with hooks that are so quietly awe-inspiring that they carry the song's emotions right into listeners with ease." Pinkie has really only just begun to bring you heart stopping music; picking up where the Sarah Records imprint left off and continuing the tradition with the timeless music that is the 2004 Pinkie release "Sharon fussy".
Escape into a world of soft sighing melodies and peaceful harmonies. "Sharon Fussy" takes you there with soothing strings, delightful arpeggios, and tranquil key arrangements that loft and swirl, sending you off into the waters off England's southern shore. The grey sacred English mornings wrap you up in a comforting blanket, pining for love and reconciliation, a must have for healing the broken hearted.
ALBUMS:
"Sharon Fussy" (Planting Seeds, 2004)
" Lush" (New Release, release date TBC)
COMPILATIONS:
"Sunsets and Silhouettes" (Planting Seeds Records)
"Picnic Basket" (Shelflife)
"Hopping on the West Coast" (Mobstar)
"Viva Mobstar" (Mobstar)
"Christmas Underground" (Bumblebear/Planting seeds Records)
"Bliss Volume Ninety-Five" (Blissaquamarine)
EPs:
"My Little Experiment (2001)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU CAN BUY PINKIE RECORDS AT THE PLANTING SEEDS RECORDS WEBSITE AND PAY WITH PAYPAL, CREDIT CARD, CHEQUE OR POSTAL ORDER
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TORTUGA BAR - STORM EP (VIERSIEBEN RECORDS/FINETUNES) OUT NOW!
This online EP release (5 Tracks & Artwork) is not just an appetizer for the album which follows on June 26 - among the album versions of "Storm" (feat. Evan Dando) and "Feel the Love" it contains a remix of "Storm", made by labelmates Monocular, the track "Cavallo Pazzo (Song For Mondo Fumatore To Sing)" feat. Werner Kureinski, former member of Aheads and "Do It Right", a nice version of the Daniel Johnston song performed by Tortuga Bar and Navel.
Everyone at indiecater records would like to wish you a happy summer and let you know that there is an indiepop song from the Very Most available to download FREE from our site!
=I really want to believe it's all a dream, but I just can't seem to wake up, I just can't seem to turn on the light, one step off the edge and the world will seem all right.=
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