Junkstar
Electro / Indie / Pop / Rock

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Gig listings:
20 January 2009
The Big Chill House
20:00 
09 January 2009
Speeltuin
20:00 
10 January 2009
The Waterhole
20:00 
12 February 2009
The Cobden Club
21:00 
05 March 2009
Underbelly (downstairs from Zigfrid)
21:00 

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The Band

Adeline Rozario - Korg
Anna Reinoso - Bass and vocals, glockenspiel, juno
Emy Santoro - Guitars and vocals
JC Connington - Vocals and guitars, programming
Pat Lynch - Drums

About us


Hailing from London, but with a distinctly international flavour, JUNKSTAR have supported artists ranging from the Others, We Are Scientists, the Hoosiers, Fight Like Apes and 80’s pop icon Wendy James. They take the pop sensibilities of their heroes & synthesize them into a big brash sexy city swagger, all of their own.

Regularly headlining and playing venues around the U.K., Ireland and Europe from the LA2 Astoria in London to the Liverpool Carling Academy & Festivals in Amsterdam - Junkstar pull off that precarious trick of delivering a masterclass of sleek hooks whilst providing you with a sound that resonates giddily, just like kissing a pretty girl. Or boy. Or animal.

PLANET JUNKSTAR 2009

The Magazine single & E.P. (digital and limited 7’’ and CD) with a video (MTV bound!) is to be released late January 2009.

The band is doing a BBC Radio Newcastle live session & interview & have received airplay from various BBC Radio stations in the UK including a feature on BBCRadio6 music with DJ Chris Hawkins.

Junkstar played throughout the 2008 festival season including dates in the Netherlands with more German and Dutch gigs coming in December 2008 & January 2009.

Their track ‘Brothers and Sisters’ is featured on DC Jam Records compilation Red Die #42 in North America which is currently charted at #4 on Canadian college radio (September 2008).

Junkstar wrote and recorded the song ‘Going Nowhere’ featuring the voice of NOODLE from the Gorillaz. It was used on BBC dark comedy show, IDEAL (series 3). The BBC produced video of the song can be viewed on the bands myspace site and was a bonus feature on the DVD.

One of their first gigs was played for Simon Williams (Club Fandango/Fierce Panda) after he liked their demo.

The band is doing a South Eastern Radio live session & touring the South Coast to promote their first release in 2009.


WHAT THEY SAY
Simon Williams - (Club Fandango)
‘Head down' is a catchy and really likeable track - this band rocks - with wings!’
Graham Duff - (BBC IDEAL writer)
‘Trashy, bruised art pop of the highest order.’
Lynda Burke - (NME)
'Junkstar; a band so dynamic and energetic it's very hard to forget the spectacular presence they have on stage. With thundering beats and sweet melodic riffs, they are a class act destined for great things.’
Alexander Havering - (music journalist)
‘Junkstar’s music shakes and wriggles within a self-defined aesthetic that’s perfectly suited to tales of city life, reflective consciousness and the dirtiest of deadly sins’.
Andy Slade - (PIT VIPER records)
‘über-catchy - like an energetic mix of Scissor sisters, Mika and the B-52s! VERY HOT’
Benjamin Zephaniah - (Poet, novelist and playwright)
‘Junkstar sound good to me!'





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