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Bikini Black Special

the only reason that helicopters fly

About Me


BONUS MP3 DOWNLOADS!
Made Of Meat (Live @ 53 Degrees)

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Bikini Black Special like beats, and synths, and guitars, and drums, and big fat bass, and more synths, and electronic gizmos, guns, knives and sharp sticks. With this in mind they formed a band which brought all these elements together. Except the guns, knives, and sharp sticks - because that would be irresponsible.
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"This band of Prestonian misfits deliver sample soaked punnets of strawberry electronica, sweet yet with a bitter aftertaste.. floor shakingly bass ridden and crossing genres from Drum and Bass, Rock, Pop, Alt and dirt. Expect blood, sweat and tears, and finish with double cream" - Dognoise

Hear Steve Lamacq Plugging Us On RADIO ONE!
Here we are on Radio One AGAIN!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/18/2005
Band Website: bikiniblackspecial.com
Band Members: Promoters! Download our handy BBS Gig Pack 1.0 for all you need to know !

Laura B (Vocals)
Paddy (Guitar/Synth/Laptop/Vocals)
Jonti (Synth)
Bobby (Drums)
Andy (Bass)

BONUS MP3 DOWNLOADS!

The We Are The Opposition EP feat. Laura Haley

Bad News
El Tango Del Hombre Diablo
Grey Matter
Nagasaki

Oddities And Novelties

NEW! Radio Free Preston
In The Beginning
Made Of Meat (Live @ 53 Degrees)

A Couple Of Old Ones...

Pushing People Into Fast Moving Traffic
Product X

Influences: Portishead
Senser
Gomez
Radiohead
Muse
Basement Jaxx
Red Snapper
Goldfrapp
Soulwax
The Koreans
Kosheen
Morcheeba
Lamb
Sounds Like: "This band of Prestonian misfits deliver sample soaked punnets of strawberry electronica, sweet yet with a bitter aftertaste.. floor shakingly bass ridden and crossing genres from Drum and Bass, Rock, Pop, Alt and dirt. Expect blood, sweat and tears, and finish with double cream"
Dognoise

"Bikini Black Special introduce themselves with full horror-movie ambience, before launching into a remarkably dark and dense performance. Their debut is a whirl of thunderous percussion, drifting synths and suffocating bass..."
HedMag

"Electro-rock with an acid tongue, the palpable energy was clear from the start; a sense of erotic charge and electric expectation."
UndeReview

"Tonight they are a nuclear storm, the walls vibrating under the bass. Nowhere is this better demonstrated than in the band’s signature anthem 'Black Hat/All Rise', at the moment when the clouds break and the swirling envelopment of one part gives way to the shafts of light of the other. It’s the highlight of the set."
Prestone

"BBS play with gut and determination. With lyrics that make you feel good to be in a bad, bad world and music that’s focused and darkly subversive."
TuborgMusic.com
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Join us on FACEBOOK!

We now have a Facebook fan page, which makes it easy for us to keep you up to date in a sexy and non-obtrusive manner - why not sign up? We'll be giving away free BBS T-shirts to three lucky random wi...
Posted by Bikini Black Special on Wed, 14 May 2008 01:45:00 PST

Article from Newcastle Metro

There was a nice little article about us in the Newcastle Metro, which is reproduced below for your viewing pleasure!...
Posted by Bikini Black Special on Wed, 14 May 2008 01:41:00 PST

Manchester June 6th CANCELLED

Hey friends and chums, sadly our gig at Night and Day in Manchester on June 6th has been cancelled - we're not entirely sure why this is, but we'll keep you informed - the venue have said we can have ...
Posted by Bikini Black Special on Wed, 14 May 2008 01:38:00 PST

Nice Review And Other News

First of all, we had a rather nice review, so we’ve reproduced it here for your reading pleasure. And also to be smug of course ha ha. Also, we’ve been in the studio all weekend working o...
Posted by Bikini Black Special on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:44:00 PST

Bikini Black Videos

hey hey there's some videos of our gig at 53 degrees, preston, up on YouTube if you'd like to have a look...BBS videos on youtube!All is well at Bikini HQ, we've been working hard on new material and ...
Posted by Bikini Black Special on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:58:00 PST

A Yellow Belly Lily Livered Waste Of Space

Hello everybody :)Well, I just watched "Control", the biopic of Ian Curtis. I confess that Joy Division never really did a lot for me, but as a film and a story I found it thoroughly moving. Twenty th...
Posted by Bikini Black Special on Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:42:00 PST

Sage Advices

"Give a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a night. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."This is a useful and true piece of information. Other useful and true pieces of inform...
Posted by Bikini Black Special on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 05:04:00 PST

Why Are Things So Heavy In The Future?

Hello again from Bikini HQ, from our palatial rooftop gardens, where we like to lounge about and sip dark rum from the hollowed out thighbones of dead supermodels. Today we have been rummaging around ...
Posted by Bikini Black Special on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:18:00 PST

Live Recordings From 53 Degrees

Well, we got hold of the recordings that were done at 53 Degrees as part of the Radio One Fringe... all in all, pretty pleased with them - funny how you don't notice the bum notes on the night, but it...
Posted by Bikini Black Special on Wed, 23 May 2007 10:23:00 PST

More Radio One PLUS Bonus MP3 Downloads

Hello there you lovely people! Well, we were on Radio One again, as part of a segment about the Fringe events in Preston. I talk some nonsense in the middle, and Bobby is in there at the end saying so...
Posted by Bikini Black Special on Wed, 23 May 2007 04:10:00 PST