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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 Records ).

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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  • A_Tamzarian

    ozy punk 1s

    last month

  • BlakeHate

    ustralian Thought Criminals for the win

    February 2012

  • kanto_sho

    why do last fm add the article for Aussie thought criminals? They seems tagged without article here.

    May 2011

  • kirlianblue

    @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.

    April 2010

  • FacelessShadows

    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..

    April 2010

  • kirlianblue

    @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

    April 2010

  • sinner4saint

    Great music, great personalities and great future I see for this band!!!!! <3

    April 2010

  • FacelessShadows

    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 =[

    April 2010
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