Artist description Strawberry offers meticulous arrangements, interesting text, and cool uniforms.

Music Style New Wave, Progressive, New Romantic

Musical Influences Strawberry brings many flavors to the table. Our own CD collections include expansive selections by the Beatles, David Bowie, Devo, Morton Feldman, the Flying Luttenbachers, Gang of Four, Ligeti, Megadeath, Steely Dan, the Cars, Kurt Weill, and Yello.

Similar Artists the Cars, the Beatles, Styx, Gary Numan, Talk Talk, ABBA, Visage, Sweet, Depeche Mode

Artist History Today, there are very few people who want to please you as much as Strawberry. Strawberry is actually a sort of Super Group comprised of Chicago's best experimental / No Wave artists, united in their goal to deliver genuinely interesting pop music that rises high above today's drab music-as-commodity. While the band members continue to remain annonymous, you may recognize them from their participation elsewhere in Cheer Accident, Bobby Conn, Dead Voices on Air, the Flying Luttenbachers, Hatewave, Lake of Dracula, Lilith, Not Breathing, Quintron, Societas Raffaello Sanzio, and To Live and Shave in LA. Maligned and idolized in Chicago's Wicker Park during the early 1990's, Strawberry was almost destroyed by the attention. Infighting, internecine extortion and ill health all played their part in driving the original members to 3 of earth's corners. One pursued a career in the healing arts. One would have been an inventor. One tried to best all of animalkind. One sacrified his body for money on the streets of Amsterdam. Having overcome incredible adversity, Strawberry now strives to be the band that you'll want to think about for years to come.

Group Members Argon Protopi - guitars, synths and vox; Cindi Caramels - vox, keys; Laci Fibonacci - vox; Freedom Lord - bass and synth bass; Sledd - guitars and synth guitar; Sunrider Optimus - drums and electronic drums; Ultrafox - vox and synths. We are pleased to announce that John Holocaust (nee Holiday) is under consideration for being retained on a consultant basis in an advisory position.

Instruments Personalized guitars by Fender, Gibson, BC Rich, four G707/GR700 guitar synths in a variety of color schemes to coordinate with the band members' uniforms; dekkai bass; drums and Simmons electronic drums (again in various color schemes) with Visulite cymbals; countless synths including Jupiter 6, JX8P, Prophet 5, ARP Odyssey, Moog Rogue, Siel DK600, Yamaha DX7, EX5, Korg Z1, modular synths, etc.

Albums Strawberry (S/T) on Taigkyo: 2002. Available from http://www.strawberryplanet.org

Press Reviews "Chicago's Strawberry is one of the best live bands in rock today. I've been complaining a lot about how expensive your basic indie/underground shows are in Chicago...$6 shows are $8, and $8 shows are $10 or even $12...but Strawberry is a band that actually puts on a $15 show... I have it on good authority that the singer spent six hours the day of the show getting his hair done... That alone made the show totally worthwhile, not to mention his ability to pirouette with a guitar synthesizer... In fact, when you're talking about the whole "this-is-not-a-fucking-joke" school... these guys are right up there with Andrew W.K." ----------- "Synthy rock Cosmopolitan." ----------- "Wow! what an album! ...a liquid plastic robot bubble gum universe." ----------- "Strawberry's three synth players, skintight matching uniforms, and smirking, overwrought soulfulness was so far beyond either a revival or a critique of the 80's that I have trouble expressing what it was like...maybe some kind of sick Platonic Form of platform-heel Space Fag God Rock... The show was so good I actually blacked out for a while... No I don't know what it was all about, only that I was privileged to be there."

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Location Chicago, IL - USA

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