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London, United Kingdom (2004 – present)

There are 2 bands named The Thought Criminals.

1) The Thought Criminals is a London, UK / band, formed by Kirlian Blue (synths, backing vocals) & Rocky Goode (vocals, lyrics), in 2004. Their début album was “Die Young : Stay Pretty” (2008, WTII), made with dance producer Tony Messenger and mixer Rob Henry. In 2009, Enigma! joined the band (synths, effects). Their latest release is the single “All The Freaks” (Aug 2009, Dirty Electro / WTII).

From the outset, as a duo, The Thought Criminals built a cult London following, e.g. headlining at: Mass, Underworld, Dublin Castle, Goldsmiths College, 333, Studio 11, Club Aquarium & Hope & Anchor . They have constantly blended dark styles of early 80’s electronic music (influenced by: The Prodigy, Gary Numan, John Foxx, Sex Pistols, Tik and Tok & Soft Cell) and modern dance. The vocals are often tongue-in-cheek & quintessentially South London.

Other singles include “Suicide Bomber” (2006) and “I Wanna Be A Celebrity” (Mar 2007, Electric Fantastic Sound).

The Thought Criminals are proudly a self manufactured act. Created by Kirlian Blue & given balls by, front man, Rocky Goode. They had no style gurus or Malcolm McLaren’s to help them. They don’t claim to be talented musicians - they do claim to be performers, with very strong musical ideas, lyrics, originality and direction.

Sites: Discogs, SoundCloud and http://theThoughtCriminals.com (official)
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  • BlakeHate wrote:
    Sunday morning
    ustralian Thought Criminals for the win

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  • kirlianblue wrote:
    September 2011
    We will re-address the Problem very soon Kanto_sho. Its down to Wikipedia.

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  • kanto_sho wrote:
    May 2011
    why do last fm add the article for Aussie thought criminals? They seems tagged without article here.

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  • kirlianblue wrote:
    April 2010
    @FacelessShadow, Cyberslut is being re -worked..Darker and Heavier the new stuff ie Pay Her To Lay Her is on the same lines of Cyberslut the other tracks are not. You could class it as Cyberslut MKII. We have come along way from Die Young Stay Pretty and are busy recording the secound album. Club versions are never representive of an album I like a couple personally well three.

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  • FacelessShadows wrote:
    April 2010
    aha when I said "neo-synthpop pap" I wasn't intending for it to be taken as a genre or a category.. As for what genre you actually are I wouldn't like to say; it doesn't really matter all that much. Well, I decided to give the album another chance just before I saw your reply and if I'm honest it's growing on me (although I'm not sure if I'll be able to stomach all these "club remixes" at once, but oh well..). I guess I just didn't find the rest of the songs as instantly catchy as I did Cyberslut at first... maybe it just wasn't what I was expecting when I heard Cyberslut *shrugs* But anyway, I like it more than I did a few days ago :P And no, not bad at all, well done..

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  • kirlianblue wrote:
    April 2010
    @FacelessShadows I'm sorry you feel your time was wasted but a lot of people bought the CD so that generic neo-sythpop pap was liked by a lot of people. I still don't get how AK47, Suicide Bomber or Brixton Breifcase are neo synthpop but each to their own opinion..As our our first album which got re released in 2008 by the former wax trax label WTII Records in the USA I think for a South London Band we did not do bad. Our second album on its way is a tad diffrent but we must all learn and start somewhere anyway like your term neo-synthpop pap.. I wondered what genre we we're then.. Kirlian The Thought Criminals

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  • sinner4saint wrote:
    April 2010
    Great music, great personalities and great future I see for this band!!!!! <3

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  • FacelessShadows wrote:
    April 2010
    Timewasters. Just because you write one really good, catchy, quirky song (Cyberslut) doesn't mean you can make the rest of the album generic neo-synthpop pap -_- Highly disappointed =[

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  • Sp0okie wrote:
    March 2010
    <333

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  • Warsie wrote:
    October 2009
    Wow!! There are more full tracks!!! :DD Thanks Kirlian!! *3*

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  • kirlianblue wrote:
    October 2009
    cheers warsie,,

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  • Warsie wrote:
    September 2009
    All The Freaks video is very funny :D It reminds me MJ's Thriller XD And the songs is addictive! *3*

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  • Empathy82 wrote:
    February 2009
    it sounds sweet ;)

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  • Warsie wrote:
    December 2008
    I wanna be a celebrity is great! *________________*

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  • falsemuzzle wrote:
    December 2008
    yes...i AM in heaven with my AK-47! :-P

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  • cixxxj wrote:
    June 2008
    finally listened to ur recco, sorry for being so late. top stuff! going to tag and check other works by you

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  • zero_magazine wrote:
    May 2008
    Welcome to Zero Music Magazine on last.fm. http://www.last.fm/user/zero_magazine/

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  • narys wrote:
    April 2008
    me too, it is too hot to handle lol :D <3

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  • BadlyDG wrote:
    December 2007
    Love Pappas Got A Brand New Gun <3

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  • Nummymuffin wrote:
    November 2007
    I love, love, love the album art for Suicide Bomber and I Wanna Be A Celebrity. Nice job!

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