The Beatles
The Who
Selected friends
The Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Frank Zappa
The Doors
Devonport
Hendrix
Radiohead
The Mars Volta
The Kinks
Led Zeppelin
Miles Davis
Rikki Morris
The Rolling Stones
SOME RECENT PHOTOS
Soundcheck at The Cabana Napier - Photo by Ian Morris
Crowd at Ohakune Mardi Gras
Kid With Bubblegum In Red by Jaisi
Crowd shot - Timaru
Rob @ Red Bull Studio
Haddon at Rippon Festival in Wanaka
Behind the scenes at the Piece Of My Heart video shoot
Jaisi @ Red Bull Studio
Crowd shot - New years eve 07/08, Waihi beach hotel, W/Th' Dudes
Ex-Confectionaire Hamish Bode, at The Cabana Napier - Photo by Ian Morris
PURCHASING MUSIC
Our debut album "Sweet tooth" has been released! It is available in most stores.
The ECs are proud to announce that we have found our missing quarter!
Jesse Sheehan is a talented young musician from Wellington, and is the new Electric Confectionaire. He will play guitar and keyboards, and sing backing vocals. Haddon is sliding on to the bass guitar.
Jesse has just won the 2009 Smokefree Rockquest as a singer-songwriter, you can check out his stuff on his myspace page - www.myspace.com/jessesheehanacousticproject
We've been hard at work over the last year writing and recording demoing for a new album, which we'll be releasing at some point next year.
Your first chance to see the ECs with our new lineup and a taste of what the album will sound like is at the Coromandel Music Festival. It's being held on the 3rd of January at the Coromandel Area School grounds - for more info visit www.cedact.org.nz.
Keep your eye out for more ECs gigs in the new year!
Piece Of My Heart theme on Go Girls in Australia
To all our Australian fans, Piece Of My Heart is featuring as the theme tune to Go Girls, a new kiwi drama being played on Ten at 10pm.
Track List:
Late Night Shopping Spree, Mr. Whippy, Sweet Tooth, Silver Silver Moon, All My Love, Carnival Hymns, Bucktooth Bill, Mind Full Of Method, Piece Of My Heart, Lady Marryanne, Green n Blue
“In my book, local debut of the year”
Nick Bollinger - Radio New Zealand
"[The Electric Confectionaires] have the potential to be the best group out of New Zealand in the last 20 years or so"
"undoubtedly the most interesting release by a kiwi band this year"
Daniel Markham - Rip It UP
"There's a similar wide-eyed sense of pop glee - matched to Beach Boys-quality harmonies and elegant arrangements and amusingly scatterbrained lyrics - that make this 11-song set positively infectious"
Russell Baillie - NZ Hearld
“Sweet tooth is a 11-song slab of well thought-out and clever rock and roll without being contrived”
Scott Kara - NZ Hearld
"All in all, Sweet tooth is like a bag of mixed lollies - sugar sweet, totally satisfying and an experience you'd be keen to repeat"
Yahoo.com
"[Sweet tooth] incorporates glorious pop melodies, crazed synthesisers, gorgeous harmonies and fretboard frenzies. Their music makes equal room for prog-rock pyrotechnics and bubblegum hooks, blues licks and barbershop quartet."
Nick Bollinger - Radio New Zealand
'"Everybobdy knows Led Zep and everyone Knows Jimi but there is no one today doing it and I don't know why" says Maxwell. He goes onto say that he has been really impressed by local outfit the Electric Confectioniares who also share a love for the music of the late 60s.'
Warren Maxwell - Rip it up
PIECE OF MY HEART VIDEO
This is the video for our new single "Piece Of My Heart"! We filmed it in Christchurch early in November. Directed by Richard Bell, the producer for videos such as U2's "Electrical Storm", "Please" and "One", Nirvana's "Heart Shaped Box" and Johnny Cash's "Delia's Gone".
Enjoy!
LATE NIGHT SHOPPING SPREE VIDEO
SWEET TOOTH VIDEO
ABOUT THE BAND...
Quirky and original, The Electric Confectionaires are a four-piece from Auckland’s North Shore whose music has the feelgood factor – with an edge - of 60s and 70s influences like the Beatles, Doors, Kinks and Funk Brothers.
Frontman Sheehan is a musical sponge who’s spent years soaking up Radiohead, the Smashing Pumpkins, Led Zeppelin and guitar heroes ranging from Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimi Hendrix to jazz innovator Pat Metheny. He composes and records his guitar-based songs track by track onto a Mac that jostles for space with a drum kit, keyboard, guitars, amps and instant noodle cartons in a tiny storeroom next to his bedroom.
At Haddon Smith’s house, an old-fashioned villa with a piano in the front room, you’re likely to hear Bartok, Frank Zappa, Miles Davis and Haddon’s sister’s bassoon practice. He has slid onto bass guitar after the departure of Hamish Bode in 2009.
Rob Fenton, an ex-Wellingtonian, multi-tasks on drums and vocals. The last to leave school, Rob was Head Boy at Takapuna Grammar. He recently bought a ’73 Ludwig kit to add to the retro gear favoured by the band, including a venerable Juno keyboard, 1970s cherry red guitar, and a Wurlitzer piano.
Jesse Sheehan, is the newest addition to the ECs, playing electric guitar, keyboards and singing backing vocals. He shares the The ECs’ love of ’60 acts such as The Beatles, Leonard Cohen, and Jimi Hendrix. Jesse won the 2009 Smokefree Rockquest as a singer-songwriter.
All four sing close harmony vocals, honed by barbershop quartet and choir singing at school. All four have jazz leanings, and three form part of a jazz-band, which explains the interesting complexities they build into their songs.
They are fun-loving, serious young musicians who plan to make music their career.
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EC'S T SHIRTS!
EC'S T shirts are now available for sale!
They are $25+postage.
To buy a shirt, fill in the form below and we'll email you with a reference number and bank account details for payment. It works just like buying something off Trademe or Ebay.
If you have any inquiries regarding shirts please email us at: theelectricconfectionaires@gmail.com.
The Electric Confectionaires's Friend Space (Top 7)
Just been listening to those tracks we recorded at The Bus back in July 2006...Camelot, Jazzy Bums etc etc...fucking OUT THERE I reckon, and highly cool!
Hurry up and get playing again! I wanna hear what Jaisi's been up to these last couple of years!!
I was going to comment again that i think you guys are fucking awesome... but i see that my comment from a while ago is still there, so i thought,, hmmm maybe i wont comment or i will look like a pyscho.. but then i thought oh well!
We just love, love, love you guys in our house.......awesome sounds, so thank you verrrry much for bringing the joy and dance to our lives, keep it comin'.........
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