This is extreme music for those who never sleep ! Sex, voodoo drugs, industrial beats and screaming guitars collide with B-movie madness, rock'n'roll obsessions and a sick fascination for the apocalypse. PY takes every cliché you can imagine, then warps it and throws it back into your face, like The Cramps used to do ; but unlike The Cramps, they roam and rampage many contradictory musical universes. Sometimes you'll get a full blow of dancefloor madness, then sometimes they'll take you into strange experimental landscapes ; as if they didn't give a fuck about what their audience is waiting for. And actually, that's the truth : Punish Yourself don't give a fuck about anything. This is just doomsday music, boys and girls, enjoy it or go fuck yourself !
Nutrition facts : PY released 7 studio albums, including an instrumental (!!!!!) record and a collaboration with French electronica mastermind Sonic Area (most of it having been recently reissued by Season Of Mist), plus a freely downloadable live album on D-Trash Records.
PY played something like a thousand gigs, mostly in Europe, Japan and Canada, headlining at festivals like Sziget, Eurockeennes, Leipzig WGT, Fusion, Hellfest, Dour (3 times !), Waregem Gothic, Ososphere ; with bands like… well, almost anyone, from Das Ich to The Skatalites !
PY are frequently joined onstage by Jean Luc De Meyer (Front 242, Modern Cubism…) to perform "Voodoo Virus", a PY song from the Gore Baby Gore album.
PY sometimes perform as "The Incredible PY picture show", featuring guests, additional performers and visual effects. A live DVD of the sold-out performance given in their hometown Toulouse will be released in 2010.
PY members also play in several side-projects : 1969 Was Fine, Cheerleader 69, LaRuine & La Ruine, Aléas, Le Bal Des Enragés.
Oh, by the way, check our "rock'n'roll fromspace" side-project (didn't we already tell you about that ?):
