SHOCKING PINKS
"an emotionally vulnerable highlight reel of scruffy Jesus and Mary Chain dream-pop, ecstatic My Bloody Valentine haze, droning C-86 confessionals, and bedroom New Order bass lines...His heartache, our pleasure."
In early 2004, Christchurch, New Zealand’s Nick Harte releases Dance the Dance Electric, his first album as Shocking Pinks ona small part-time record label Pinacolada Records. Buzz about the record makes its way to the offices of Pitchfork in America, who issue a glowing review, still to this day one of the highest album reviews of any New Zealand artist ever
Describing the record as “cavorting from unabashed disco revivalism to scuzzed-out new-wave to reggae-tinged psychedelia in a mottled kaleidoscope of brazen idealism.” The review gushed about the album, though one line would make a profound difference in Nick Hartes life.
At the end of the first paragraph, Pitchfork issue a bold statement stating that the album “far outshines most of the bilge spawned from James Murphy's Chernobyl-like fallout.” In reference to the extremely popular, at the time, New York label DFA Records. Well, word of this spread to DFA and they as you would expect took a listen to the record.
DFA were as taken with the record as Pitchfork and courted Nick, eventually signing him to their roster and releasing his later material worldwide, gaining him significant profile in the process.
Ten years later, cult album, Dance the Dance Electric will be finally be available physically again as well as digitally for the very first time as it gets the full reissue treatment as the band tour the world for the first time. (China, Japan, Europe, UK, NZ, Australia and North America)
"you'll fast find yourself addicted to his sweet, glum love stories."
BBC
"like some freshly excavated relic from the early days of Kiwi-pop"
Prefix magazine
SHOCKING PINKS DATA
Last.fm profile
Performance requirements:
Band travels with own backline (1 guitar amp, 1 bass amp and drums).
Band requires 1 microphone for vocals and a stereo DI for their sampler.
Availability
China Sept 17-23
Europe & UK Sept 25-Oct 25
USA Oct 26th- Nov 14th
Australia Nov 15th-27th
For bookings: alowhum@gmail.com
More photos coming, please contact for others or high resolution copies
Some songs from forthcoming album "Dance the Dance Electric"
PRIVATE, PLEASE DO NOT SHARE - Album released Sept 19th, 2015
Songs from the DFA release (2007) "Shocking Pinks"
Shocking Pinks - End of the World (Video)
Shocking Pinks (live) 01.01.2015 "Double Vision Version"
