A final reminder about our gig TONIGHT at Electric Circus in Edinburgh. Doors at 7.00, Vile Electrodes, our intrepid support band, currently hot footing it up from deepest Kettering will hit the stage with their synths and rubberwear at 7.30 and we will be on immediately afterwards – no hanging about tonight I’m afraid, so don’t delay getting there! You will be able to pay on the door if you haven’t already got a ticket (admission on the night is £10). Don’t forget, admission also gets you into the club night that follows, Cream Soda, which we’re assured will cater for all your retro pop needs. Hope to see as many of you as possible for what we hope is going to be our best gig yet!

…well nearly a week, but it’s Easter tomorrow so we thought we’d get in early before you all head off for a long weekend! Anyway, just a quick update to let you know what to look forward to next Friday at Electric Circus and to tempt any of you that might still be sitting on the fence!

In a change from our recent outings, this is a full length headlining show from us this time, so you’re talking a good hour and half plus from us for us to cram in a whole load of your favourite tracks from the golden age of electronic pop music. Most exciting of all is the fact that this is the first time we’ll be able to get all the elements of our show working together properly in the same venue. Our syncronised video show will be out in full full force courtesy of Electric Circus’s fantastic video wall – we’ll be bringing our light show that you may recall from some of our earlier gigs, plus – possibly the most important thing – Electric Circus is a smoke machine friendly venue, so that all important staple of classic electronic music, dry ice, will be there in abundance!

Song wise, we’re building up quite a portfolio now so it’s getting really hard to choose what to keep in and what to leave out but we think we’ve come up with a cracking set for you this time, containing plenty of the of old favourites but also a few you may not heard from us for a while. And as ever, never ones to rest on our laurels, you can expect some new tracks from us – we don’t normally like to give too much away about what we have planned but on this occasion, we’re particularly excited about one song in particular – it’s a track that people have been asking us about repeatedly ever since we started and it’s also one we knew we would never do unless we felt we could do it justice – well, the time has come to put that to the test! Yep, the song from which we take our band’s name is finally getting the PF3 treatment next Friday – so if you want to hear it, you’ll need to be there!

Don’t forget also we will be joined on the night by the fabulous Vile Electrodes, travelling all the way from Hastings for their first ever Scottish show. Now, we know it’s fashionable these days to turn up at the last minute to gigs and miss the support band but for once, please get there in good time to see these guys – they really are very good and we assure you, you’ll be very entertained. They even use more synths than us. Check out, if you haven’t already, some of their tracks on their Soundcloud page.

You’re going to have to get there in good time anyway as there is a club night starting straight after the gig so we’re looking at an early on stage time, as we need to finish by 10.00PM. The good news your gig ticket also gives you free entry to the club so you can make a night of it! Cream Soda is Electric Circus’s poptastic new regular Friday night club, promising a “bubbly, fun loving weekly night of sweet tunes spun by a tasty selection of delicious DJs – known as The Parma Violets, they guarantee to serve nothing but the premium pop of retro classics with a twist!”. Definitely worth sticking around for, we’d say.

Don’t forget to visit the Facebook event page to let us know if you’re coming or if you need any more details about the venue or how to get tickets.

We’re very excited now so hopefully we’ll see you all next week!

Mike, Don and Steve

We have some video footage taken at our recent support slot with Grahame ‘Hipsawy’ Skinner at Electric Circus – head over to YouTube and check it out! With thanks to Norman Brown for the footage and to Joe Seal at Electric Circus for the fantastic sound mix, included here in all its ‘off the desk’ glory.

Hot on the heels of our recent stint of support slots with Steve Strange and Grahame Skinner of Hipsway, Party Fears Three are excited to announce our next full length headline show here in Edinburgh, which takes place on Friday 13th April at Electric Circus.

Electric Circus, for those that don’t know, is the venue formally known as Buster Browns, or more recently Club Mercado / Massa. Located on Market Street, just across the road from the City Arts Centre, Electric Circus has been fully revamped in recent years and now boasts a state of the art sound system together with a unique video wall stretching the entire length of the stage, which of course we’ll be taking full advantage of! Sumptuously furnished and with sensibly priced drinks given its prime city centre location, we very much enjoyed playing there recently whilst supporting Grahame Skinner and we are thrilled to be back there so soon for a full headline show.

We’re also very pleased and excited to be sharing the stage with a truly brilliant support band in the form of the Vile Electrodes. One of the most exciting and interesting electronic bands to emerge from the current underground synthpop scene, the Viles are making the trip all the way from London specially to perform their first ever Scottish gig. In their own words: “We are beautiful noise. Like high heels on thin ice. Whip cracks on latex. Flickering neon signs. Car crashes on concrete overpasses. Long lashes behind dark glasses”. Having seen them live myself recently when they were headlining the inaugural live event of respected online synthpop journal The Electricity Club, I can confirm this statement pretty much sums them up! Check out some of their tracks on Soundcloud – it’s the perfect combination of girl meets boy meets synth and you would be foolish not to take this chance to see them in action.

Tickets are available now at a variety of outlets – in person, you can go to Ripping Records (South Bridge), Tickets Scotland (Rose Street) or Avalanche (The Grassmarket). For online tickets, go to either See Tickets or TicketWeb. Advance tickets are priced at £8.00, subject to booking fee.

A quick update about our summer festival plans! As previously announced, we are very excited to be headlining the VIP marquee at TribFest which takes place over the 16th-19th August in East Yorkshire, where we’ll be rounding off the Saturday night with a full one hour set beginning right after the last act main stage finishes. Join us if you can for what promises to be a huge eighties party!

You may also recall we also announced a while back that we had successfully auditioned for an appearance at the other major UK tribute festival, Glastonbudget in June – unfortunately, we have learned in the last week that this has in fact only resulted in being offered a 25 minute slot on one of the smaller stages, competing directly with a full programme of 80s acts on the main stage. Whilst we wish the organisers well with event, this is simply too short to be a worthwhile exercise for either ourselves or more importantly, those of you who were considering going, so, with some regret, we have chosen to withdraw from the line-up for that particular event.

It’s been a while since we’ve updated the audio player on the site so we’ve just added four new clips taken from our recent Electric Circus show supporting Grahame ‘Hipsway’ Skinner. Tracks featured now include ‘Open Your Heart’, ‘Talk Talk’, ‘It’s A Sin’ and ‘Vienna’. Head over to the Audio page and check them out!

A quick reminder that we’re playing with Skinner tomorrow night at Electric Circus (formerly Buster Browns / Club Mercado). We’ll be on stage at 7.45PM for a 45 minute set before Grahame and the gang take the stage to deliver all the Hipsway favourites and more. Look forward to seeing you if you can come.

For more details, check out Electric Circus’s brand new website!

A huge thank you to everyone who came to see us last night supporting Steve Strange at the Citrus Club. We very much appreciated the warm reception and are grateful to everyone who came up afterwards to tell us how much they enjoyed it. A big thank you as well to Steve himself for having us as his support and we wish him well with his current Detroit Starrzz project and the upcoming Visage album that is currently being recorded.

Our tracklist for the night was:

- I Travel
- Don’t Go
- Open Your Heart
- European Son
- Hungry Like The Wolf
- Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)
- The Thin Wall
- Cars
- Love On Your Side
- Ashes To Ashes
- Enjoy The Silence
- The Sun Always Shines On TV
- It’s A Sin

Don’t forget, we hit the stage again in just under two weeks time when we’ll be supporting former Hipsway singer Grahame Skinner at Electric Circus in Edinburgh. Hipsway of course came to promience during the eighties and are remembered for tracks such as ‘The Honeythief’, ‘The Broken Years’ and ‘Ask The Lord’. Grahame is undertaking a mini Scottish tour with his new band and will be performing songs from throughout his entire career, including Hipsway of course, plus other bands such as Cowboy Mouth.

The gig takes place on Friday 17th February at Electric Circus in Market Street. Tickets are available now priced £12.50 (in advance, STBF) from Ripping Records, Tickets Scotland and also online at Ticketweb. You can also visit the Facebook Event page for the gig here.

We’ve got a different set planned for this one, so it’s definitely worth coming along if you can. Doors open at 7.00PM, we’re not sure yet when we’ll on stage and for how long but as soon as we have more information, we’ll let you know!

Don’t forget our gig tomorrow with Visage/Blitz Club legend Steve Strange at The Citrus Club! Lots of PR going on for this one… Steve was on Loose Women today talking about it, there’s also an interview in today’s Evening News and we hear he’ll be on Janice Long’s Radio 2 show tonight as well! Doors open at 7.00, we’re on stage at 7.30 for a 1 hour set, so don’t be late!

News reaches us that Steve Strange is doing a live interview this evening (Saturday) on Leith FM between 6-8PM where no doubt he’ll be talking amongst others things about next week’s gig. Tune in if you can!