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Discover the best kept secret of the south-european indie/pop scene!Raining Pleasure is a four-piece band that hails from Patra, Greece. Listen to their unique sound with influences from Morrissey, U2 to Ride and Manos Hadjidakis.
Raining Pleasure is a four-piece band that hails from Patra, the biggest town in southern Greece. Having recorded their first demo in the early nineties, Raining Pleasure quickly became the Greek indie scene's best-kept secret.
Their debut album 'Memory Comes Back' (1996) was released for the respected indie label Lazy Dog and received enthusiastic reviews upon release as did it's follow up, 'Nostalgia', released in late 1998.
In Spring 2001 Raining Pleasure were linked with EMI. The band recorded and released an ep 'Capricorn',
before returning to the studio to prepare their third full length album, their first for a major.
In December 2001 Raining Pleasure's major label debut 'Flood' was released to critical acclaim. The album spawned three massive airplay hits in Greece, the biggest of which 'Fake' has become a pop and rock radio staple, after successfully being used in TV spots for Greece's leading telecommunications company. 'Fake' was followed by the hits 'Capricorn' and 'Only Through You'. "Fake" was also used to the soundtrack of the film "The Best of Times" directed by the famous Taiwanese director Tso-chi Chang. The film was nominated for the Golden Lion prize at the Venice Film Festival 2002.
The buzz surrounding the group is fantastic and has taken many by surprise. In Rock N Roll Magazine 2002 readers' poll the group was voted best Greek rock act of all time, a humbling vote of confidence for an act that has been around for just over 5 years.
Raining Pleasure have been one of the hottest tickets across Greece for three summers running, having shared festival stages with The Cure, The Pixies, The Dandy Warhols and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club among others and having sold out theatres across the country.
Their major label debut album, 'Flood', performed exceptionally well on the charts, spending 15 weeks on the international chart where it peaked at No.1 before chart regulations necessitated the album's move to the local repertoire chart where it peaked at No.5 (an astonishing and unprecedented feat for a Greek act performing in English). The album spent well over a year on the Top 40 Artist Album Charts and has been certified Gold.
2004: The group's album 'Forwards & Backwards', is introduced by the double A-side single 'World'/'Identical Twins'. On 'Identical Twins' esteemed vocalist Elly Paspala contributes a vocal track of rare beauty. Both songs became airplay hits.
In March the band's cover of ABBA's 'Dancing Queen' featured in the successful Greek film 'Hardcore', began climbing the airplay charts where it will remain for over six months. In September the group scores another hit with album track 'Love Me, Love Me, Love Me' which video clip directed by Marina Gioti won the best animation video clip award at the Animation Block Party Awards 2005 in New York.
Winter 2004: The band embarks on its first tour of Germany and enters the studio to record a new version of the classic album by Manos Hadjidakis and the New York Rock N Roll Ensemble, 'Reflections'.
'Reflections' is released to immediate critical acclaim. The album was introduced to media at a concert at St Paul's Anglican Church in Athens. The album has been in the Top 10 since release.
At the moment, the band is preparing their new album.
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2 bledo
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3 graziella kanellou
Hopefully, they will travel around the world!!!!!!!
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4 liana-m.
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5 katorV
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6 Danai 55
Fake is my favourite song ever!
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7 Hartigan
Simply the best greek band so far... Raining Pleasure are fuckin' great on stage!
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8 fotis the best
WOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!
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9 dom 2000
Bravo pleasures.Alitheia eiste apo tin Patra?
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10 ugh82
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FakeComments 13
from the Flood album (Emi/Chrysalis, 2001).
The hit-song that started it all!
- kanonika kai plousia skata!!!
operator - it rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
press timer - best hit ever!
bedtime lotion - GREAT VOCALS!
vivliothiki - this is great!
torn 78 - The best.
mini pack - good stuff guys!
theramed 2in1 - When I first heard this song at ''Steps'', I thought "Oh my God, what was that?!!!"....
carnaby street - Power song!
eyes so green - "...failed in trust got sunk in pain
obsessed with love and clouds and rain
lives collapse and this fucking game
goes on and on and on.."
R.P = A W E S O M E !!!
Hartigan - My favourite song ever!!!!
Danai 55 - The song that started everything! Incedible tune!!
synthmaniac - My favourite one!!! It is perfect!
vaggos15
Love meComments 8
from the Forwards and Backwards album (Emi, 2003)
Boo Radleys meet Beatles and James and...
- I ''love you"!!!!! ;-)
dear Ella - I love it! Once I heard it, it is always in my heart!
grapes and wine - Love me, love me, love me!!!
y tu mama tambien - i wanna hear it live!!!!!
antzelo - You must here this song's live-version... Unbelievable!!!!
carnaby street - What an amazing song !!!!!
daddy doo - Amazing video-clip!!
-spiderman- - Great great great lyrics!!! My best song!
Shy levit
A RingComments 1
from the Forwards and Backwards album (Emi, 2003).
A dynamite!
- amazing.....pure genii
Pireous
Luv 90Comments 3
from the Forwards and Backwards album (Emi, 2003).
A sing along acoustic love song. Fall in love and then listen to this!!!
- You are killing us here!!!!! :-/
back up this - I loooove it! Why in earth won't you play it live????
maria1980 - Heart breaking song!One of my best ones!
debby2
sacrificeComments 1
from the Flood album (Emi, Chrysalis, 2001).
A beautiful and strong closing track diamond!
- Maybe my favorite ballad ever!!!
maria1980
kastor bossaComments 3
from the Forwards and Backwards album (Emi, 2003). Indie-bossa, try it! :)
- Greeks do it better! Great bossa!
greek power - such a fine song!
fresh moments - what a feeling...
jobgkil
identical twinsComments 6
from the forwards and backwards album (Emi, 2003)
- fantastic song! welldone r.p.!!!!
less than zero... - i heard it, i lost it, i loved it!
luna d. - I love this song...
pure soya! - This song is the BEST one.
like no other way - Such a great song!
my fav.
stray_gti - This is a truly great song...
evonni
capricornComments 5
from the Flood album (2001, Emi/Chrysalis). A song that Morrissey would kill to write!
- listen it carefully... best lyrics!
johnny and eve - "...don't tell me what you'd like to want to say, just tell me what you want, what you really want, what you deeply want..." Ti stixos einai autos!!!!!!!!!
eyes so green - It's the 2nd best song after "Fake"..
Hartigan - capricorn is my favourite song from Raining Pleasure...it reminds me the other side of myself
eliouri - the one that makes me angry... i love this song!!!
kilimantzaro
Another SongComments 1
from their third album, Flood (Emi/Chrysalis, 2001).
With a Sonic Youth-ish touch to a pop melody.
- Truely brilliant!
zupertruper
- Raining Pleasure's fifth album, Reflections has been nominated gold! It is the second album by the band being nominated gold, after the "Flood" album. Cheers, Potis http://myplanetb612.blogspot.com
- At 14th of july, the Raining Pleasure 4th album, "Forwards and Backwards" album will be released in Germanyand Austria from Emi.
