Hideka & The Pristines - Party's Fall

Live at The Tin, Coventry 13/10/18
www.hidekamusic.com/
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The Pristines - out of Coventry, England. Indie lo-fi guitar pop including jangly chiming guitars with a touch of psychedelia and shoegaze = GAZEDELIA
Released 4-track tape cassette albums via fanzines in the early 90s before being asked to produce singles for the likes of Pillarbox Red records (UK) and most notably Sunday Records (USA).
Debuted with the Souls to the Devil 7" e.p for Sunday, which was quickly followed by the Kimberley Somebody single. The Pristines also appear on Sunday Records compilations and also featured on the Happy Sunday rare flexi with a cover version of labelmates They Go Boom! "She's Not My Friend".
The Pristines finest moment on Sunday was the album Teen-Fraud, Pop-Whore (part one), released in 1995.
The Pristines still release CD albums today, however, no longer for Sunday but purely self-produced. "Teen-Fraud" was followed up by the equally poppy Get Caught in Showtime (2000), and the much darker & challenging 3rd album Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm? (2003). Before a whopping 17-track third album Coping: Not Coping (2005).
MySpace has led to the band forming new alliances and further releases have occurred. November 2007 saw the release of a 3-track mini CDR single on the Miami based Cloudberry records, a popular & productive new label running very much in the old fanzine ethos really independent style (cloudberry 59).
Cloudberry also put a Pristines track on their 5 band e.p Nothing Matters When We're Dancing that was not available by general release but given as a handout at selective indie nights at clubs in London & Sweden.
More recent developements have seen The Pristines agree a deal with Series Two Records to release the album States of Mine in 2008.
The Pristines still continue with their prolific output today, with releases including a collaboration with Japanese shoegaze artist Hideka on the mini-album "Mayflower" (itunes etc), and releases and re-releases of singles & albums on the Bandcamp platform thepristines.bandcamp.com/
The best way to stay in touch with what we are up to is via our page on facebook
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Female vocalist Hideka originally sang and played bass with Loco-Holidays - a highly influential band signed to legendary label of the 90s Shibuya scene, Confusion (by Pony Canyon). Subsequently performing solo under the name Ruby Ruby Star, she focused not only on song writing, but on applying her diverse talents in playing instruments such as bass, guitar, organ, and synth, and also in programming. Hideka has written and performed jingles and background music for J-WAVE and other major Japanese broadcasters, while also proactively looking to supply her music overseas.
In Hideka's unique "dream pop world", her floating, wafting voice is perfectly married with spacy, oriental atmospheres. Leaving behind the hustle and bustle of the city and returning to her home turf in Yamanashi, she now embarks upon a new solo project to freely deliver that Hideka sound to listeners all over the world.
In July 2008, Hideka contributed a song to HALF DREAMING: Asian Shoegaze Compilation - a world-wide release featuring artists from Japan, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Korea, China, and Hong Kong. And we now welcome her to LCP Records for the global release of her much-anticipated new album.
Shoegaze artist, hideka makes her debut release with this 8 title wonder. hideka left the tumultuous city and surrounded herself in nature to make this album. She locked herself away from society to do some deep introspection. She eventually found herself and started writing music that expressed her new self. She built a private studio in an abandoned house in the middle of nowhere, and started working on her first solo album. In the fantastic songs that emerged, through the clanging guitars, her mystic voice floats through the air. This liberating release of one of Japan's more respected musicians, has created a masterpiece that is at times tempestuous, while at other times tender and ephemeral.
She originally released the song "Brain To Dream Of" in Japanese for her demo but rerecorded the song in English for her international fans. This release is a digital only release.

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Nice bass...