The Candy Productions Promotions Team has achieved media coverage, TV and raido airplay from the following: Granada + BBC + Century FM (Manchester) + Radio Merseyside + Radio Lancashire + The Daily Telegraph + KCR +BC + In the City FM + Wirral News Group + Wirral Globe + Ents24 + Halton FM + Liverpool Daily Post and Echo + Unpeeled Magazine (London) + High Voltage Magazine (Manchester) + Student Media incl. University of Liverpool - Icon Radio; John Moores Unversity - Shout FM + LOGO Magazine + Live Magazine + Taste + The Villan + more...

PINCUSHION DEMO REVIEWS:

'Pincushion are a rather hard-looking four-piece dealing in world-shaking punk-pop in the Distillers/Joan Jett mode. Nothin’ to Lose sounds exactly like a you would expect a song called ‘Nothin’ to Lose’ to sound, while Big Star adds a smidge of Hole to the formula, to surprisingly agreeable effect. Best of the lot is Baby Is A Psycho, where the band’s hardest-looking member, Katie Evans, extols the dubious delights of going out with a grade-A nutjob, to the accompaniment of a nostril-slittingly memorable tune I was humming for days, despite my better judgement. Damn you, Pincushion!'
-Tasty Fanzine (Leeds), March 2005

T: Sounds quite a bit like a Buzzcocks tune or an early eighties New wave track. In fact, this positively SCREAMS New Wave at me, certainly when you think of bands like X-Ray Specs and their ilk.
N: All of the above, and it has to be said, with a post-Punk air that could even suggest at a Patti Smith leaning.
T: Just for posterity, this is released on a Liverpool based indie label that goes national this year and looks set to become a haven for promising up and coming bands in the North West.

- Atomic Duster fanzine (Leicester), Jan 2005

'The Donnas meet Green day in Liverpool and decide they can do better than they have been doing. Thus Pincushion is born, a power pop, punk, rock, grunge amalgam showcased well on this three track demo. A pleasing mix of power pop punk.
They have a way with a hook, repeated listening draws you in and hints at good things for the future.'

- This Is Not TV (Manchester), Jan 2005

'Everyone in the music team was well impressed with Pincushion's sound, so much so that we put you on the A list!! Thats awesome, mainstream artists entered lower than Pincushion. Keep it coming. This 'Girly Punk' rules!!!'
- Lauren Barley/Bailrigg FM - Lancaster Uni station, Nov 2004

'it's a great CD...really catchy; we want more!'
- Jenny Smith The Head of Music at the Aberystwyth Uni's station

'Space is tight and so am I, so let’s just do it. Thought I’d be doing the damming with faint praise thing on this, but these fuckers have pinned my ears back, ouch, lovely, “Why don’t you get on with it?” she snarls, odd, cos that’s exactly what Pincushion do, get on with it. A real punked up and armour plated take on glam punk, three tracks, all blinding, and the thing called “Baby Is A Psycho” is nothing short of the best single track I’ve heard this year and it’s fucking November and I’ve heard some class already and this is last knockings for this issue and, ah shit, Pincushion are just the fucking top end of it.'

- Unpeeled Magazine (Brighton/national), Nov 2004


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