The Horrorpops

1996: Patricia's former band "Peanut Pump Gun" (indiepunk rock) was opening for Kim Nekroman's band "Nekromantix" (psychobilly) at the 1996 POPKOM in Cologne, Germany. Even though both bands were based in Copenhagen, Denmark neither of them had heard about each other before. The audience was a mix of psychobillies, punks and indierockers and the genre combination turned out to be a huge success. A few weeks after the show Patricia and Kim got together back in Copenhagen. Their mutual love for music like:"Blondie", "Depeche Mode" and "Siouixie and the Banches", Surf, Ska, Punk and Rock'n'Roll in general, led to the idea of forming a band with no commitment to any particular music style. They also wanted to do something that would take them out of the roles they already were known for and the first step towards that, was to swap instruments. Kim taught Patricia the basics on playing the upright bass and in return Patricia passed on to Kim from her guitar skill's. Not long after, the duo were writing songs and a need for a drummer crept in. 1997/98: After trying out different drummers suitable for the job (even Nekromantix guitarist Pete Sandorff auditioned), Patricia's long time friend Niedermeier (Strawberry Slaughterhouse) joined and "HorrorPops" was officially a band. After a bunch of shows as a trio the "HorrorPops" quickly achieved a cult status attracting a broad audience variety. Never afraid of trying out new things "HorrorPops" recruited a second guitarist "Caz the Clash" , Niedermeier's old band mate and Strawberry Slaughterhouse guitarist. The music came together and got a lot more aggressive. 1999/2000: The HorrorPops are playing with the idea of bringing in a couple of (gogo) girls for their stage show. Not your average gogo dancers but something more rotten. They didn't have to look very far, Patricia was working at a piercing shop at the time and co-workers Mille and Kamilla weren't hard to convince. This was also the year HorrorPops recorded the album's first 7 songs (at Christiania's Ventura Recordings). These recordings were mainly intended for a band press kit when booking shows but it somehow was copied and got multiplied all over the world. Strangely this led to the songs "Ghouls" and "Psychobitches outta Hell" becoming Copenhagen Club hits. 2001/2002: Mainly concentrating on live shows the HorrorPops built up a huge following and closed the year playing at the Legendary "Wild at Heart" club in Berlin, Germany. 2003: The demand for some kind of release motivated the HorrorPops to once again enter the Ventura Recording studio and lay down 6 more tracks. At this time Caz the Clash became a dad and his highest priority naturally fell on his beautiful baby daughter........He got replaced by yet another Strawberry Slaughterhouse member Karsten. Hellcat Records were so impressed with the 13 songs and signed HorrorPops. A vinyl single containing "Ghouls" and "Psychobitches outta Hell" was released early September on Rancid Records and the full length album Hell Yeah got scheduled to hit the streets January 2004. With the single in hand HorrorPops ventured out on their first US tour as headliner for the "Aloha from hell tour" with 9 shows across California and Arizona. This also brought the first US interview to HorrorPops witch happened to be with Vogue. With the band always finding humor in things and wanting to please 'the moms', HororPops ended up with a trendy and very funny article in Vogue. Later same year the band got a great preview of their upcoming show with Rancid in LA weekly and a fantastic show with Rancid and Tiger Army at the Wiltern, LA. This show brought HorrorPops out to a lot of new people. 2004: (Highlights of 2004: debut release, Offspring support tour, performing at Jimmy Kimmel, sold out Troubadour W.Hollywood, performing live at BBC1, sold out London twice!, playing main stage at Hootenanny and much, much more...) Hell Yeah got released with a bang Feb. 10, the interest in the band grew amazingly and when they did their release show at Amoeba, it was packed to everyone in HorrorPops surprise. HorrorPops was then supposed to follow up with a grand US tour, but got stock in immigration paper work and had to cancel the whole thing. Fortunately Offspring was just about to head out on their month long European tour and with a 3 day warning HorrorPops got offered the chance to join them as main support. Horrorpops played their butts of every night for an audience counting between 5000 to 16000 people and then continued on with their own 1 1/2 month headline tour in Europe. Shortly after the European tour ended, HorrorPops returned to the states to play the Jimmy Kimmel show and a few CA shows, but realizing the work that laid ahead and how time consuming the band had become, Mille had to leave the band to go back to school. Mille got replaced by another good friend of the band, Naomi quickly renamed NoNo. HorrorPops started touring the states, first on Punks VS Psychos, then as main support for Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards and then back to Europe for another tour. One tour took over the next in 2004 and the band to loved every minute of it. Unfortunately Karsten had to leave the band, he meet the love of his life and wanted to spend every minute with her witch was kinda hard to do with the bands tour schedual. HorrorPops played around 110 shows in 2004 and are now back in LA to rehearse and record a new album, they will however play just one last show in W. Hollywood to announce their new guitar player. So far the band and Hellcat is working on having the second album out by May 2005.