detox cute & the beauty junkies

Music:

Member Since: 8/16/2008
Band Members: paisley play-doh
voices, glockenspiel, cuddly toys

charlie darling
other instruments, flashing lights

What's E-POP then? Well, it's like J-Pop only it's English Pop. Pop with an accent on the English, and sung in an English accent. And what do people say about us???

‘Alarm Bells by Detox Cute & The Beauty Junkies has all the beauty of a crystal clear St Etienne’
Russell Barker for Russell’s Reviews

‘Detox Cute and The Beauty Junkies (who with a name like this should currently be drying out in the Betty Ford clinic) take things down a notch or two with Alarm Bells b/w Silent Night, electronic beds allow swooning feminine vocals, neon synth lines drawn in puddles, to create an elegant, swirling melancholia redolent of The Pet Shop Boys meeting Stereolab for mulled wine and tales of their failed love lives. Exquisite. I'd like to hear more of these guys!’
Bill Cummins for God Is In The Tv

‘Special thanks go to Detox Cute and the Beauty Junkies for taking us back to 1990 to swim through some great synth pop.’
Steve Fenton for The Mag

‘If it wasn’t for the Lovely Eggs appearance elsewhere then we’d have certainly crowned this utterly intoxicating pop gem as the pride of the set, we mentioned Detox Cute and the Beauty Junkies in passing a few missives ago in fact as far as we recall highlighting this particular cut as deserving of wider coverage and indeed adoring acclaim. ’Alarm Bells b/w Silent Night’ is an utterly enchanting slice of pristine purring pop, sculptured with the same breathless soft sophistication as was once the trademark of St Etienne and longingly drilled with the silken corteges of swirling strings and delicately brushed with an all at once desirably tasty fragile, forlorn and beguiling persona - a bit of a peach if you ask me guaranteed to have you cooing, swooning breathlessly and going strangely weak at the knees.’
Mark for Losing Today

‘Probably the most indie label in Europe, Manchester-based DIY-label Cherryade Records have got into the spirit over the last four years with A Very Cherry Christmas, an annual compilation that brings together some of the most DIY and indie performers who, in a parallel universe, would be No 1 on Top of the Pops. Hotpants Romance, Ste McCabe, The Seven Inches and Detox Cute and the Beauty Junkies are among those who feature. Hey, it beats hearing Mariah Carey for the billionth time.’
Huw Stephens for The Independent

Bookings/press please e mail - iwantdetoxcute(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk
Influences: cilla singing 'la la la lu'
badges, posters, stickers & tee shirts
lollipop train
julie christie
john ottway
adam & the ants
the carpenters
soft cell
abba
malcolm mcfee's hair in 'please sir'
the rutles
paul b and his balloon
marco, merrick, dairy lea
st etienne
sir cliff
junior electric magazine
blondie
roger (supertramp) hodgson
the primitives
helen love
transvision vamp
the press darlings
orange juice
black box recorder
mickey dias
t-rex
alex lloyd
stephen duffy & the lilac time
the trashcan sinatras
andi world of europop
mike nesmith
bill hicks
the kursaal flyers
gilbert o'sullivan
richard butler
ringo's tambourine
lennon '65
tom bell
the camden leisure pirates recording company
a-ha
rob deb
frankie abbot
darling
dirk bogarde
edwyn collins
roddy frame
malcolm's hair in 'If'
please sir
oh, and segovia
tim wade
eric duffy
serge
friends again
mark glover
elliot smith
one more time
Sounds Like: abba and the ants-------------------------------------------------------- ---------------
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Type of Label: Indie