Sunscreem News Release
by Sunscreem HQ / © 1995 Big Fish Music Ltd
Formed in 1990 by Lucia Holm and Paul Carnell on the wave of the dance explosion, Sunscreem broke the mould right from the start by playing with a full live band at raves, free parties, and clubs. They pioneered modern live dance music by doing away with the “diva, two keyboard players and a DAT machine” format which had been the standard of Club PA’s up to that point.
The live act... its enthusiasm, its attack and its upfront guitars put Sunscreem in a completely different category from the usual anonymous ‘three songs and off’ club PA.
Many hardened clubbers will go all wobbly on the dance floor, full-on soaring heat, wet cheeks, the business.
The year finished with a DMC / Mixmag Award for Best Newcomer, students across the UK voted them Favourite College Band and they even managed to win an award for Best New Scottish Dance Act. (Some achievement for a band from Essex, England!)
They also achieved an all-time first with simultaneous No. 1’s in both the UK & US dance charts for Pressure US and Love U More, respectively. Love U More was placed in no less than four US charts, including Rock and Alternative.
With the release of Perfect Motion, Sunscreem had written two classic club anthems of the time.
In the UK, between a punishing schedule of live appearances at clubs, colleges, raves and venues, they managed to squeeze in a tour with Jesus Jones. They also accompanied New Order on their Republic amphitheatre / stadium tour of the US and took their unique live set to a whole new audience helping their first album, O3, to become the biggest UK debut in the US in 1993.
Ethereal, blissed-out dance pop... live they are an adrenalin-soaked, all-singing, all-dancing, all-flame-throwing event with the omnipresent thumping beat determinedly UP.