Tigerpicks

Hometown: Manchester. The line-up: Frankie Ross (vocals), Martyn Anderson (synths/keys), Emma "Reece" Leatherbarrow (vocals). The background: They're the synthclash Gossip. Ladytron meets Led Zep. Le Tigre produced by Moroder '77. They're into - and who isn't these days? - garish neon-pink electro-trash, filtered through an unhealthy obsession with Aileen "Monster" Wuornos (true). Or they are, as the title of their debut single so neatly puts it, children of the disco-punk-electro-funk revolution. The Tigerpicks, to be specific, are two girls and one boy who woke up one day - actually, it was probably the early hours of a Saturday morning after a wild, wired night out caning the Red Bull and party Smarties - and decided it might be a daft, or rather deft, idea to fuse Sigue Sigue Sputnik and Peaches, Suicide and Huggy Bear. And they're obviously being taking reasonably seriously, - the now out-of-work man who signed Drum Theatre in 1984, but also because Richard X has been drafted in to produce their debut album of shouty vocals and synthesized shrieks, boings, squelches, bass-bombs and burbles. Altogether now: Pow! Pow! Pow! Pow! Pow! Pow! Pow! Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.