BACK TOGETHER 2008
Sunshine Panic.... from an old Northern England steel town;
the harsh atmosphere of furnaces, mills and smog competing with with the dark
crags and damp dales of the neighbouring Peak District...(By Gum!) Jonny &
Glynn have a wide music and artistic background resulting in today’s original
project. At the exciting outbreak of industrial and electronica in the 70’s
and 80’s Glynn was with TAGC (The Anti-Group Conspiracy) and Clock DVA, both
pioneering Sheffield groups. TAGC headlined Berlin’s legendary ’Atonal’ music
festival, Psychic TV and Laibach also played that night. Jonny and Glynn worked
together on various electronic-folk music during the nineties, exploring the
roots of world music and especially the music and art of the Sufis under ’The Hidden Name’. They have always held more than a passion for the music and
art of the avant-garde, outer limits, experimental and industrial / electronica.
Applying powerful expression through the latest audio hardware and software, vocals and acoustica, SP are forging a new sound which could rightly be termed ’new industrial’, accurately reflecting the current era in technological, ’industrial’ sound. Sheffield is supposedly now a ’cultural industries centre’, nurturing many new media types and still groping for an unreachable identity.
The Sunshine Panic logo incorporates a single blip from a monitor of a human heart surrounded by the sun. Genesis P-Orridge (’cultural terrorist’ of Coum / Throbbing Gristle / Psychic TV / Thee Majesty) gave us the name ’from the sub-conscience’ before he had seen this logo which had already been designed.... We like the name Sunshine Panic as the words have a good ring, their meanings together instill an unnerving sensation; a challenging of what is apparently good.
GO
"Points
the way to the future of post-industrial electronica.
The
continual undercurrent of world music influences, cultural collision
and ambient textures matched with a definitive groove make this project
one to take note of." dPulse
USA.
"Smashing!
You should be right happy with these songs.
They’ve got me gobsmacked. "Genesis
P-Orridge