Pain Teens

Pain Teens was an experimental noise rock band formed in Houston, Texas in 1985 by Scott Ayers and Bliss Blood. The band used tape manipulation, digital delays, sampling, tape cut-ups and other effects in their music. They also included guitar, violin, marimba, saxophone, percussion, and many other musical instruments. The group was signed to King Coffey's Trance Syndicate label for their offbeat-yet-nightmarish psychedelic music—similar to labelmates Crust and Coffey's band, Butthole Surfers. Drummer Frank Garymartin and bassist Kirk Carr joined the band in 1990.
The Pain Teens broke up in 1995. Blood moved to New York City that year and began playing solo gigs on her ukulele doing 1920s tunes and original music, playing with guitarist Al Street and forming several groups, including The Moonlighters in 1998. The Moonlighters have released four CDs on their own label, ONLIEST Records, and their fifth CD Enchanted was released on WorldSound Records, a Seattle-based label, in July 2009. Ayers still resides in Houston, and has played with a number of other bands since, including Truth Decay and Walking Timebombs. He currently plays with Frog Hair. Garymartin briefly played with Helios Creed, and launched a hip-hop act under the name of Hundred. Kirk Carr died of cancer in May 2008.
== Links to Peel ==
Peel seemed to have discovered the band in 1989 when he played tracks from their Case Histories album. He would play further material from the group on his shows and once met the singer, Bliss Blood, in 2000 in a record shop in New York City, where she gave him an album of her new band, The Moonlighters, a group which she formed after the Pain Teens split in 1995. Several tracks from the Moonlighters were played by Peel on his programmes. After Peel's death, it was later found out that he had three of the Pain Teens' albums in his Record Collection: P.
== Shows Played ==
;thumb|220x220px1989
*07 September 1989: New Woman (album - Case Histories) Anomie
*12 September 1989: Preppy Killer (album - Case Histories) Anomie
;1990
*26 May 1990 (BFBS): 'Lady Of Flame (7"-Lady Of Flame EP)' (Smilin' Ear)
*10 November 1990: The Basement (LP - Born In Blood) Trance Syndicate
*17 November 1990: 'Bad In My Head (LP-Born In Blood)' (Trance Syndicate)
*24 November 1990: Pleasures Of The Flesh (album - Born In Blood) Trance Syndicate
*25 November 1990: My Desire (LP - Born In Blood) Trance Syndicate
*02 December 1990: 'Lady Of Flame' (LP 'Born In Blood') Trance Syndicate 
*08 December 1990: The Basement (LP - Born In Blood) Trance Syndicate
;1991
*02 March 1991: The Basement (album - Born In Blood) Trance Syndicate
*05 August 1991 (Radio Bremen): Poured Out Blood (v/a 7" - Love & Napalm Vol. 2) Trance Syndicate
*09 August 1991 (BFBS): Poured Out Blood (v/a 7" - Love & Napalm Vol. 2) Trance Syndicate
*24 August 1991: 'Poured Out Blood (Compilation 7"-Love & Napalm Vol. 2)' (Trance Syndicate) 
*13 October 1991: Sacrificial Shack (7") C/Z
*Peel 002 (Radio Bremen): Sacrificial Shack (7") C/Z
*09 November 1991: Sacrificial Shack - The True Story Of The Satanic Cult Killings Of Matamoros, Mexico (7") CZ 
*28 November 1991 (Radio Mafia): Sacrificial Shack (7" b/w Sweetheart) (C/Z)
;1992
*23 May 1992: The Smell ('Death Row Eyes' 7") Sub Pop
*29 May 1992: Death Row Eyes (7") Sub Pop 
*05 June 1992: 'The Smell (7 inch-B side of Death Row Eyes)' (Sub Pop)
*19 June 1992: The Poured Out Of Blood (album - Stimulation Festival) Trance Syndicate
*20 June 1992: Shallow Hole (album - Stimulation Festival) Trance Syndicate
*26 June 1992: 'God Told Me (LP-Stimulation Festival)' (Trance Syndicate) 
*28 June 1992 (BFBS): Living Hell (CD - Stimulation Festival) Trance Syndicate
;1993
*10 July 1993 (BFBS): Prowling (album - Destroy Me, Lover) Trance Syndicate 
;1995
*11 November 1995: Coral Kiss (album - Beast Of Dreams) Trance Syndicate
*18 November 1995 (BFBS): 'Coral Kiss (CD-Beast Of Dreams)' (Trance Syndicate)
;2000
*17 August 2000: Bad In My Head (LP - Born In Blood) Trance
== See Also ==
*Record Collection: P
*Gigography 1991 
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
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