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Playing live in 2012 for the first time in 30 years, Dutch electro pioneers and Factory Records artists MINNY POPS took their name from the primitive Korg drum machine that propelled their stark, compelling post-punk rhythms. Their association with Factory saw them tour with Joy Division and New Order, work with producer Martin Hannett, and become the first Dutch group to record a Peel session, all in a touring lifespan of just three years. These long-rumoured reformation gigs, presented by Incendiary Magazine, will be accompanied by the January release of Standstill to Motion (LTM), a live CD/DVD package documenting 1981 performances in Amsterdam and New York.

“Their cold menace sounds remarkably fresh, bearing favourable comparisons with contemporaries such as Simple Minds and Tubeway Army as well as the current crop of analogue pretenders.” - (Uncut).

“The Interpol of their day, and it's aged surprisingly well" - (Q Magazine).

“Minny Pops soldered fizzy, crackling electronics to stern, robotic post-punk; despite the precious name, they were harsh and confrontational, relentlessly and unapologetically cold. A striking and volatile anomaly." - (eMusic).

RATS ON RAFTS

RATS ON RAFTS are a young band from Rotterdam and their style has been compared to a mix of Post Punk and New Wave with elements of C86 by an excitable press. Comparisons to The Fire Engines, The Chameleons and The Specials and have also been bandied about. The band swear spiritual allegiance to the Rotterdam's New Wave, Pop and Punk scenes with one proviso, the weirder the better.

"If only John Peel was still alive today they would be doing a session for him next week." - John Robb -Louder Than War

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