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 in 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, Waihi beach hotel, W/Th' Dudes
PURCHASING MUSIC
Our debut album "Sweet tooth" has been released! It is available in most stores.
Following the departure of bass-player Hamish to IT land, the ECs are about to audition a new member.
The perfect candidate would be:
-A great singer
-Proficient on Guitar and/or Bass
-A confident performer with the ability to communicate with an audience
If you know anyone who might be interested please email Haddon at haddon.smith at xtra dot co dot nz
Goodbye Hamish
The Electric Confectionaires are sorry to announce that our bass player of the last two a half years, Hamish Bode, has left the band. Hamish has been invaluable, as a bass player, singer, and generally sweet all round dude! He's left the band to pursue his work in graphic design, with plans to move overseas in the near future. We would like to thank him for his contribution to the band, and helping us to get to where we are now.
This however is not slowing us down, we've been taking a break from gigging to concentrate on writing, arranging, and recording demos for the next album. We don't want to give anything away quite yet. But we're all really excited about how all the new tunes are shaping up, and can't wait to get them to unleash on your eardrums.
In other news, Piece Of My Heart is being used as the theme tune for the new series called Go Girls, you can check it out on TV2, Thursdays and 8 o'clock.
"SWEET TOOTH" HAS BEEN RELEASED!
Our debut album "Sweet Tooth" has been released! Including the singles "All My Love", "Late Night Shopping Spree" and "Sweet Tooth" the album is a mixture of the best songs we've written over the last 3 years.
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.
When the final Confectionaire finished school at the end of 2006, the Smokefree Rockquest winners (2005) were free to head into the studio to record their debut album, due for release this Novermber on their new label SonyBMG.
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. A driving force on-stage, he plays guitar, keys, trumpet, harmonica and percussion.
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.
Hamish Bode, bass and vocals, was brought up listening to his musician Dad playing jazz, folk and rock. Influenced by the likes of Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Paul McCartney, he says The Electric Confectionaires is the perfect synergy of his musical tastes.
All four sing close harmony vocals, honed by barbershop quartet and choir singing at their school. All four have jazz leanings, and three form part of a jazz-band, which explains the interesting complexities they build into their songs.
With musicianship that belies their youth (band members are 19 & 20 years old) producer Murray Grindley had no hesitation in taking the helm and guiding them through their first album recording. “At the outset it was the sophistication of Jaisi Sheehan’s songwriting that floored me”.
Last year brought opportunities for The Electric Confectionaires to perform at Big Day Out (‘the ones to watch’ said Time Out) and Rhythm and Vines Festival. They supported The Fray, wrote the theme music for the Rockquest TV show, and performed at Fashion Week for Red Bull and Huffer. Theirs was the perfect sound for the opening of a 60’s photographic exhibition at Auckland Art Gallery. In June they toured the country with Evermore and Thristy Merc.
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.
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The Electric Confectionaires's Friend Space (Top 7)
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'.........
Seriously the best flipping thing to come out of little old New Zealand in a long time. In my books your already legends. Love from all the way over in Mexico
LOVE YOUU GUYS! ^_^ Your sound is amazing! I love "Piece of my heart" hah and it tricks me cause it sounds like its ending for ages but it isnt lol xxx
Guitars From the Leafy Suburbs - CLOSING SOON! Last 4 days at the Academy Cinema! See Guitars From the Leafy Suburbs, a documentary about the bands of Devonport featuring exclusive footage of live shows, recording sessions and interviews! Closes Monday - get screening times from www. academycinemas. co. nz (cinema under the library behind queen st) or visit www. guitarsfromtheleafysuburbs. com for more information.
At last!!! Gore Horror Splatter! "I was a teenage werewolf" video out now!
ladies and getlemen, meine dammen und herren, Vespa & Showbiz Monstaz Records proudly present our absolutely diy video to "I was a teeneage werewolf".
Loooots of ketchup, guts, murders and all the stuff you'd love to see in every video you watch but you're afraid to ask for! Mystery, sex, blood, cars'n'guns in the worst music video ever produced!
Hey guys haven't had the chance to comment in a long time. But I'm glad you all are doing great! Still waiting to find a copy of your album in stores tho here in the US. Got a copy of the album from itunes tho. Jam to sweet tooth and my favorite all my love everyday heading home from work. Can't wait for the day you guys make it big and go on tour around the world. :D Peace from the US
): i cant eat chocolate.. ive got glandular fever T.T
meh well... thats life .. its nt like a box of chocolates... as forest gump quoted. its much more. newaaaaaae. yeah im sad hmm.... seafood cheers me up (: perrfect how are you??? anna x
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