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Pleasure and Pain

Pleasure and Pain

About Me

..The initial conception of Pleasure and Pain began in 1996 while Michael Garcia was between musical projects. Having been the former frontman for acts such and The End, Severance, and Flood, it was the perfect time creatively to start working on his solo ideas that didn't neccessarily fit into the musical scheme of his other projects. After 9 years of fronting Electric Jesus he is now fronting his first ever solo work. Michael Garcia finds himself writing, producing and playing all instruments on this dark project called Pleasure and Pain. He is currently finishing up his first 4 song solo EP entitles "The World, and All Its Thorns" with a full length debut to follow in 2009. Stay tuned for more history as it is still in the making....

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/13/2006
Band Website: pleasureandpainmusic.com
Band Members: Michael Garcia - Voice and Instruments
Tom Kennedy - Guest Bass
Influences: The Sisters of Mercy, Fields of The Nephilim, Last Rites, The Mission, New Model Army, Killing Joke, Clan of Xymox, David Bowie, NFD, Rubicon, Curve, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Snog, Frontline Assembly, VNV Nation, Front 242, New Order, Joy Division, She Wants Revenge, The Cult, Peter Murphy, Stabbing Westward, The Stranglers, Siouxie and The Banshees, GBH, Ministry, Love and Rockets, SWANS, Michael Gira, Nick Cave, Siouxie, Wire, The Stranglers, Front 242, Course of Empire
Sounds Like: Lots of stuff. Rolled up into one
Record Label: Looking
Type of Label: None

My Blog

The Reptile House

Things are brewing here on the P&P front but on a side note, my side project The Reptile House will be commencing with rehearsal next month for summer shows. The Reptile House is a a Sisters of Mercy ...
Posted by Pleasure and Pain on Sat, 24 May 2008 12:09:00 PST

Home

We'll after 8 days in Europe we're back. Got to see the last 4 Mission shows ever which was great. Got to hang out with Wayne and Simon on Friday night after the show. After London we went to Belgium ...
Posted by Pleasure and Pain on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:02:00 PST

New Pics and album added

Just added some new pics form the London/Belgium trip. More to come after the jet-lag disappears.
Posted by Pleasure and Pain on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:04:00 PST

Heading to Europe

Pleasure and Pain will be heading to Europe in a few weeks for a mix of business and pleasure. We'll be taking in the final 4 Mission UK shows while there so stay tuned for some pic of us with various...
Posted by Pleasure and Pain on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:42:00 PST

Happy Holidays

Pleasure and Pain will be taking a quick break through the Holiday Season and will back with a fully finished version of Resolution. We'll have this available for download for only a short time so kee...
Posted by Pleasure and Pain on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:02:00 PST

RIP Raven 1961-2007

Just got a call that Raven is gone. RIP brother 1961-2007Peace
Posted by Pleasure and Pain on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 11:01:00 PST

New Song Upload

Resolution has been rerecorded and is in rough form. This will undoubtedly change very soon but it's ben a while since any new recordings have been posted. This song should be done in about 2 weeks. H...
Posted by Pleasure and Pain on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 10:40:00 PST

Tonights Session - Resolution

Today I thought it was time to start re-tracking resolution on the new system. The only thing that remain from the original are the drum tracks. I recorded scratch tracks last week so Tom had somethin...
Posted by Pleasure and Pain on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:01:00 PST

Photo Shoot

We're doing a photo shoot in San Francisco this Thursday. Hopefully we'll have some juicy new shots posted by the weekend. Sorry, but the naked ones will be kept private!
Posted by Pleasure and Pain on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 05:55:00 PST

New pics!

Check them!
Posted by Pleasure and Pain on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:27:00 PST