Artist description The very decadent drummer D.W. Friend, the glamorously grave crooner/guitarist Corey Gorey, the awe-inspiring Gregjaw on bass and the inspiringly awestruck Julia Ghoulia on keyboards, shuck and jive their way into an elegant place where the sound of go-go girls boots slamming against table tops and emptied bottles crashing against velvet-covered barstools create the backdrop necessary for the cool and calculating music of the beautiful and the dead.

Music Style Mod Deathrock

Musical Influences The Damned, The Mummies, Jonathan Fire-Eater, Stiffs, Inc., The Zombies, music from the circus

Similar Artists The Damned, The Mummies, Sparks, Stiffs, Inc., Nick Cave, Blondie, Pulp

Artist History These musicians are known for their work in the deathrock band The Brickbats, their sci-fi side project Rock And Roll Star Destroyer, coffee house hell in Black Black Caffeine as well as Corey Gorey's rambling misunderstanding of techno music. Gregjaw is currently rocking the pants off of all pant wearing naysayers with The Jamesons. He was known for his work with Brickbats' contemporaries, Thee Hallowteens for years prior. Julia Ghoulia was busy working in her native Brazil with Sleepless until she relocated to New York and brought her understanding of the absurd along with her and somehow managed to catch it in solo recordings - She is also the new vocalist for old-school goth band The Naked And The Dead.

Group Members Although these recordings were performed by the founding members, the band now consists of: Gregjaw - The Proverbial Bass and Vocals, Corey Gorey - Vocals, Great American Guitars, etc.D.W. Friend - The Big Drums, alleged Vocals, Julia Ghoulia - The Poison-You-Know-What Keyboards

Albums Dress Code Blue (European promo 4 song cd single), If You Dance (CD EP, Feb. 2002), Baby Girls Are Much More Tender (CD EP July 2002), Here Come The Brides Pt.1, Here Come The Brides Pt.2 (CD EPs, forthcoming Fall 2002)

Press Reviews THE BRIDES IF YOU DANCE "Eight songs crammed into eighteen minutes and from start to finish bubbling with life like a toddler pissing on your couch. They have a definite Punky energy to almost everything, effervescing with that damn organ of theirs, and jumpy tunes that don’t always have the coolest of choruses, but overdose on energy and are quite impossible to ignore. Give me a band like this over a hundred gloominous pretentious twats any day of the week. They’re frisky, they’re able to change from a take on early Blondie to a bloodshot Rezillos freak-out at will, and the lyrical content is well within Goth boundaries but oooh, they’re having fun, how DARE they?!!! You can just imagine how many sad wankers turn up their noses at this. So, we’ve established it’s hugely enjoyable, and something like ‘Drunk Dreams’ may appear to be tempestuous stupidity, but it isn’t riddled with quirkiness at all. It works on its own merits, because there’s a sense of character about it, and the music often has weight behind it. The drums are terse, the bass quite bulbous. The vocals aren’t insanely chipper, often being downbeat rather than mentally infectious, and overall they have poppy splendour with some bracing guitar, but ‘Scalpels And Screws’ reminded me of the early Alice Copper ‘Pretties For You’ era. Given that they end by vomiting up some 60’s-flavoured instrumental cocktail called ‘They Can’t Keep Their Damn Clothes On’ I’d say they can easily lay siege to all styles, and I’m looking forward to anything else they release, and I gather two EPs are to be granted parole before the end of the year." THE BRIDES BABY GIRLS ARE MUCH MORE TENDER "More mayhem from this bright and bolshy band. Eight brisk items, heavily laced with character and designed to move you at times in a vice-like grip of inanity. You have to love the way the organ stabs the air between the vocal fists of ‘Hi!’, or the whimsical thrash of ‘The Infinity Hotel’, and you barely get time to catch your breath. I was quite taken by their slower moments this time round, be that the perversely scary imagery of the title track, with its misleading happy-clappy start, or the lopsided emotion of ‘Wives Turned Widows’. Nod wisely when I say ‘Party One The Angelmaker’ was almost good enough t be part of ‘Buffy - The Musical’ and deceptive again, as you swoon at its corny approach until the line, ‘in the death camps of my dreams, I’m ignoring all the screams’ pops up. They have a wild world inside their head and you get temporary admission to the asylum. It’s worth a visit." - Mick Mercer (www.mickmercer.com)

Location Brooklyn, New York - USA

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