Name: Rain Parade (US) support: First Boy On the Moon
Start: 2024-06-08T17:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-06-08T23:00:00+02:00
Location: medley malmö

Rain Parade (US) support: First Boy On the Moon

Bistro och bar öppnar klockan 17:00 På scen ca 20:00.
Rain Parade announces reunion tour
First Europe/England band dates since 1985
Featuring Matt Piucci, Steven Roback and John Thoman
with their new LP: Last Rays Of A Dying Sun
Rain Parade, a key LA Paisley Underground band, are set to return with tour dates across Europe and England.
Rain Parade is a band founded in Los Angeles, California in 1981 that quickly gained notoriety as a leading member of LA’s fabled Paisley Underground music scene. The band’s signature sound combines hypnotic, melodic songwriting and 60s psychedelia-inspired instrumentation — chiming guitars, eastern-inflected motifs, multi-part vocal harmonies — with 70s punk influences and a darker lyrical approach fully informed by late 20th and early 21st century themes.
The Rain Parade’s debut album, Emergency Third Rail Power Trip, (Enigma Records US/Demon Records UK), featuring the songwriting, vocal, and instrumental talents of founding members Matt Piucci, Steven Roback, and David Roback in equal measure, was released in 1983 and is internationally recognized as a masterpiece. Rain Parade’s second album, Explosions In The Glass Palace (Enigma Records/US, Demon Records/UK), recorded after David Roback’s departure, received the same high praise as their debut, with the band’s reputation growing ever since.
Sid Griffin, leader of The Long Ryders has said: “We were in the Paisley Underground with Rain Parade back in the 1980s… Explosions In The Glass Palace is and will forever be the BEST recording from a Paisley Underground band, be it us, The Dream Syndicate, The Bangles, The Three O’Clock or whomever.”
Both records directly influenced bands such as My Bloody Valentine, Ride, The Stone Rose, Teenage Fanclub, Charlatans and naturally Creation boss Alan McGee. And Rain Parade songs have been covered by The Bluetones, Buffalo Tom, Bangles and a host of others. During the mid 80s, the band toured the UK and Europe extensively, and made multiple appearances on the BBC Whistle Test TV shows. “Rain Parade was the one that changed me like an explosion in my mind, I saw them perform ‘No Easy Way Down’ on TV, and it was like, ‘Here is something I can fully get behind.’ It’s just incredible, and I have to say would have been pretty influential on the early Ride sound for sure” Andy Bell of Ride
Guitarist John Thoman joined Piucci and Roback in 1984 and went on to record on the band’s third and fourth LPs, Crashing Dream and Beyond The Sunset - Live in Japan (Island Records 1985/86) before the band broke up the following year.
Since then, the band’s reputation and diehard following has only grown, which led them to reuniting in the US for several well-received one-off shows in California, Atlanta, and Austin, and eventually recording 3 songs for the 3x4 album (Yep Roc 2018) with their friends The Bangles, The Dream Syndicate and The Three O’Clock. And most recently recording this year’s new album, Last Rays Of A Dying Sun, which manages to sound both like a lost classic and the groundbreaking work of unknown new artist, emerging from their secret lair with a record ready to change the world. As MOJO puts it, “there’s little rain on their new parade.”
Wrapping sweet nuggets of pop confection in swirling clouds of interstellar psychedelia, Last Rays Of A Dying Sun is a record at once eminently engaging and delightfully ornate. Everything old is new again, and it’s very easy to see the line that runs from the Summer of Love and the chiming tones of Jangle Pop to mid-eighties SoCal Paisley Underground of which Rain Parade was a pivotal component, through to the late-90’s Elephant 6 Collective, straight to the neo-psych indie rock of today.
Last Rays Of A Dying Sun features the original 80s members Piucci, Roback and Thoman alongside guitarist Derek See (the Gentle Cycle / Dean & Britta (Galaxy 500) / Chocolate Watchband), drummer Stephan Junca (The Hellenes, Billy Talbot, Boatclub), with vocalists Debbi and Vicki Peterson (The Bangles). Last Rays Of A Dying Sun is out on Flatiron Recordings, on their imprint Label 51.
Flatiron Recordings.
Support: FIRST BOY ON THE MOON. Indierock/Powerpop-band från Malmö frontat av amerikanen David Pedroza som växte upp mitt i Paisley Underground-vågen. Bandet är aktuella med sin nya LP " Cyber Girl".
FIRST BOY ON THE MOON
Hösten 2019 gav sig First Boy On The Moon ut på en resa för att skapa catchy låtar och framföra liveshower runt om i Malmö. Den här kvartetten, som leds av singer-songwritern David Pedroza, är inspirerad av alternativ musik från 80-talet och utforskar rockens många sidor med cerebrala texter, kick-in-the-guts gitarrer, bas och trummor. För sin debut med självbetitlade LP, First Boy On The Moon, släppte bandet en glänsande skiva där pop och alternativ rock kolliderar för att avslöja nio originallåtar fulla av råa känslor, musikerskap och sångsmedsskicklighet. Samtidigt som Cybergirl tar fart inom den internationella vinylgemenskapen, är den andra utgåvan 2024 av First Boy On The Moon. Cybergirl, en LP med tio låtar på en begränsad pressning av röd vinyl, skrevs och producerades av Pedroza och har hittat sin väg till musikshopparnas hjärtan över hela världen via deras bandcampsida.
"Two years after their self-titled debut album, Swedish indie band First Boy On The Moon returns to earth with their sophomore LP Cybergirl. David Pedroza (vocals, guitars, drums) wrote, performed and recorded ten new songs that are somewhat reminiscent of U2’s All That You Can’t Leave Behind era, but are still original in terms of lyrics and melodies. Once again we get several tunes that could be radio hits – Hot Fun In The City, the title track and I’m Alive stand out for me – and keep singing around in your head. This is a solid and appealing record that transports you to a better space." ―ADD TO WANTLIST, Music Worth Exploring.
First Boy On The Moon
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Genre Paisley Underground, Psychedelic Rock