{"id":99,"date":"2022-05-27T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/2022\/05\/27\/the-candy-thieves\/"},"modified":"2022-05-27T15:36:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T14:36:00","slug":"the-candy-thieves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/2022\/05\/27\/the-candy-thieves\/","title":{"rendered":"The Candy Thieves"},"content":{"rendered":"

 The Candy Thieves<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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BAND INDEX<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

From Creation Records<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.creation-records.com\/adorable-our-favourite-fallen-idols\/<\/a><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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“Before Adorable, three of the band were in The Candy Thieves<\/p>\n

Wil: \u201cI formed Bubblegum Flesh (their first band) as an English student at the University of Warwick back in 1988, I think. I sang and played guitar, Pete played bass. Pete then went on to form the Candy Thieves without me, this time with him on guitar and vocals. When they sacked their bassist shortly after, I was drafted in.\u201d 1<\/p>\n

Pete: \u201cThe Candy Thieves, which I had formed in 1988 with my friend Wayne Peters on guitar, when we were on a Film Studies course together at Warwick University.\u201d 1<\/p>\n

Wil: \u201cWe wrote a number of songs during this period, which went on to appear on Adorable singles including Homeboy and I\u2019ll Be Your Saint. Candy Thieves became Adorable and Robert became guitarist.\u201d 2<\/p>\n

Their first and only single released on a flexi-disc was a version of Homeboy later recorded as Adorable.<\/p>\n

Pete: \u201cI can still remember the day we wrote it. Wil started playing the bass line, and Kevin joined in on the floor tom. I sang a whole load of lines culled from other discarded songs, Wayne picked some notes, and then when it felt right I stepped on my distortion pedal to make it start feeding back, Kevin sensed it was time to move onto the snare and we all crashed in \u2013 it was beautiful.\u201d <\/span><\/div>\n


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 The Candy Thieves BAND INDEX From Creation Records http:\/\/www.creation-records.com\/adorable-our-favourite-fallen-idols\/ “Before Adorable, three of the band were in The Candy Thieves Wil: \u201cI formed Bubblegum Flesh (their first band) as an English student at the University of Warwick back in 1988, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsrainbow.com\/coventrybands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}