Kissing The Pink
Classic Electro Pop band are making a new album and releasing back catalogue to iTunes, Amazon. Like this page for official updates.
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11/01/2024
Coming in February, the Anthology 1982-2024. A 5CD, comprehensive collection bringing together the band’s three studio albums, plus many of the extended versions, B-sides and remixes from the associated single. Plus exclusive signed postcard available while stocks last! 👉 cherryred.co/KTPAnthology
Happy Christmas all you Pinksters....🙂
17/12/2023
Feb 23rd
15/12/2023
February 23rd, Anthology 1982-2024!
5 CD Set and booklet
Out on Cherry Red Recs.
The entire lot...all LP's, all singles, all remixes some unreleased tracks and some very new!
Gigs to follow...
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Berlin to Beijing 14 times!
New album on it's way. Currently mixing it with the wonderful Claes Bjorklund in Stockholm.
20/08/2023
Kissing The Pink - One Step, Never Too Late Live Feyenoord Stadium, Rotterdam 12.07.86 Kissing The Pink - One Step, Never Too Late Live Feyenoord Stadium, Rotterdam 12.07.86** Tape Unearthed & Digitised By & The Co...
Happy seasonal greetings to all you KPT-ers! We are hoping to see a lot more of you next year:)
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02/09/2022
We recorded ‘Sugarland’ in Houston, Texas. Jon and I had previously worked there with Sandy Stewart who wrote “Seven Wonders” for Fleetwood Mac.
We liked it there, so when we got our next publishing advance we put all our stuff in flight cases and went to Houston. We set up a studio behind a dance school and found a run down apartment nearby.
It was amazing, and the people were so generous to us. - N
Our music video for "Maybe This Day" back in 1983. The song was from our debut album "Naked".
Our music video for "Maybe This Day" back in 1983. The song was from our debut album "Naked". Listen here: https://spoti.fi/3pLUIdG
23/08/2022
This photo of me, Jon and Stevie was probably taken by our manager and publisher, Liam Teeling. The view is looking down Kingly Street round the back of Carnaby Street. We were heading off to the lift that would take us and our equipment to the little recording studio on the top floor of Heath Levy, our music publishers offices. We will have been recording demos for what would become What Noise. Good times. - S
18/08/2022
Listen to ‘Big Man Restless’ at https://spoti.fi/3QQUai9
16/08/2022
Thank you to everyone who has signed up to our mailing list so far! We've been thinking back and putting together all sorts of KTP nostalgia, stories, memories, photos and more - we're very much looking forward to sharing with you all. The first mailer will be sent this week, so keep an eye out for it in your inboxes. For those yet to sign up, head to eepurl.com/h7rHaX
11/08/2022
A throwback to KTP + Kim setting up our studio in Benwell Road, N7. We started producing other people at this point, getting into sampling (notice the giant Akai there!), and intense clubbing days. - N
09/08/2022
What was the very first Kissing The Pink song that you heard?
Let us know in the comments…
04/08/2022
Jon wrote “Greenham” as a result of joining the Greenham Common protest. It was a massively important time and the surrounding politics greatly informed us as people.
Listen to the song here: https://spoti.fi/3QkMrJ3
02/08/2022
Promo shots for "What Noise?".
Picture 3, Jon had the idea of being photographed as a family because that's what we were in the band anyway, spending more time with each other 365 days a year than any other person.
We decided that grandparents, mum, dad & kids should all be represented so we all dressed up as the various family roles.
I was Mum, so went full drag, wig & lipstick and a beautiful embroidered coat from my girlfriend at the time, Nick was Dad, Jon was the errant eldest kid sold his souls to Rock & Roll & George & Josefine were the younger kids. Not entirely sure what Stevie & Pete represented... - S
Listen to “What Noise?” here: https://spoti.fi/3SeINCp
The first version of “The Other Side Of Heaven” was done in Heath Levy demo studio. The first demo was quite simple, it had a quirky one note synth line that played a kind of random computer generated type melody, and simple vocal melody sung by Nick in a sort of ‘wistful’ way. The way that Nick would often sing, somewhere in between trying out the tune and a faltering frailty.
We as a band got confused by this as Nick’s original demo vocals were often done this way, and often half- finished lyrically. When we came to go about recording things as masters (rather than demos), we discovered that we could never re-create the magic of the demos, or work out how to finish things. So with Heaven something else happened, and it turned into an odyssey through countless producers and expensive studios to somehow this time complete the task.
The song really came to life as a contender for a big single when we came up with a demo that sounded like a big gospel choir singing a ca****la, with just hand claps and foot stomps as the accompaniment. The demo worked really well as the whole thing was multitracked on a portastudio using an SM57 mic put through a boss blue guitar compressor pedal. This had the impact of bringing up the volume of the room sound, so adding harmonics and a heavy close delay as well as giving the foot stomping and the claps an intense thunderous energy - Jon
Listen to “The Other Side Of Heaven” here: https://spoti.fi/3bcHz9W
28/07/2022
Listen to 'Each Day In Nine' at https://spoti.fi/3zbiBzK
26/07/2022
We've been spending some time reminiscing about the 80s, and particularly on experiences we had as a band during that time. We'll continue to share bits and pieces on our social media, but for even more detail, photographs and news of our current works, sign up to our mailing list at http://eepurl.com/h7rHaX 📝
📸 The photo was taken just after we signed our first publishing deal with Geoff Heath & Eddie Levy - aka Heath Levy Music - on the roof of their offices in Regent Street. The picture includes Liam Teeling who was our ‘contact’ at the publishers and Mike McCraith, who was our manager at the time. Heath Levy had a great 16 track studio where we did a lot of the initial demos for Naked with Rudi Pascal. The picture also includes Sylvia Griffin who sang on our first single, ‘Don’t Hide in the Shadows’.
22/07/2022
We’ve created a playlist which include some of our modern loves in music. Have a listen by clicking here: https://spoti.fi/3v9zmdk 🎧
18/07/2022
Kissing The Pink featured in Italy's CIAO 2001 published in 1986.
13/07/2022
I quite like the Kim shot. He bills himself as KTP’s no.1 fan. The pic was taken in situ in the bastion of nascent women’s liberation where males had to step extremely lightly for fear of incurring the wrath of Simone de Beauvoir and a prompt rendition of The Second S*x (1949). - Nick
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