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Candy Opera were formed in 1982 on Liverpool?s Phythian Estate in Kensignton taking their influences from the symphonic pop of Love?s ?Forever Change?s and The Beach Boys? ?Surf?s Up? alongside contemporaries such as Aztec Camera, The Pale Fountains and Prefab Sprout.

The band?s 1983 ?Honeysuckle Rose? demo has become something of a holy grail and by 1985 the band had played alongside the likes of The Pogues, The Go-Betweens and The Redskins, as well as appearing on Granada TV.

After a decade ploughing their own stubborn furrow in various guises, despite interest from EMI and Go! Discs, Candy Opera called it a day in 1993 with only a fistful of demos to their name. As the mainstream took a glossier turn, Candy Opera somehow got left behind, and for the best part of thirty years have remained a rumour, a whisper and a quietly lost legend that the occasional online leak could only hint at. Until now?

In 2017, the Berlin-based purveyors of indie obscurities behind Firestation Records chanced upon those same demos and it was love at first listen. The label?s Uwe Weigmann tracked down band members and found a band who hadn?t made music for a very long time. Having unearthed a spate of recordings that span Candy Opera?s entire history, the result is the superb ?45 Revolutions Per Minute?.

Following it?s release the album sold out straight away and due overwhelming demand from fans, the band return to the live stage for the first time in more than 25 years. Since then two more albums have followed - Rarities and their lastrelease Patron Saint of Heartache - and there have been a few changes to the band line up, A new album is planned for 2022.

www.candyopera.com

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Thornton Common Rd,

Thornton Hough,

Birkenhead,

Merseyside,

England,

CH63 1JL.