Guess which zany, wacked-out band is going to be upping the tempo at MTV World Stage “Live in Malaysia”…

They love Andy Warhol, Darwin, Jimmy Page and Beethoven. Their MySpace friends include Phil Spector, Houdini and Napoleon. Their frontman loves shaking his hips on Steinway pianos. They love playing Theremins, going crazy with synthesizers, turning their guitars up to 12 and singing exuberant songs about love, drugs, and girls. They are Raygun – the brand new British band who want to bring excitement, Pop, and magic back to Rock and Roll.

Blue-eyed, slinky-limbed and razor cheek-boned, band frontman Ray Gun looks and sounds like the velvet-voiced, finger-waggling progeny of a promiscuous session between Jagger, Bowie and Iggy pop. Then there’s The Adj, the band’s scarf-swaddled, beard-sporting songwriter, on guitar, Ben Lyonsmyth on bass and Sam Embery on drums Together, they summon the dazzle of New Wave and the dazzle of the Scissor Sisters’ disco, the filthiness of INXS, as well as the rock attitude of a band long ready to start a revolution.

Imagine huge, catchy tunes that simultaneously simmer with simplicity and sparkle like silver. That’s what you get with Ray Gun. Take ‘Waiting In Line’, their urgent, sexy finger-clicker about the passage of time. Savor ‘In The City’, their space-age homage to urban life that mixes the shimmer of Blondie with the glam thrust of T-Rex. Then there’s the dirty guitar rush of ‘See You Later’, fusing the hunger of the Stones with wry, lustful lyrics, and ‘Rocketblast’, an epic disco track.

The band’s exuberant journey began when Ray Gun met The Adj in 2004 in a dirty dive, when Ray blew everyone away singing The Beatles’ Oh Darling. They began writing songs and gigging together in Brighton, where Ray, ever the showman, liked to dress up, paint his face, and bounce around the walls. With Ben and Sam recently recruited to this noble cause, their backbone is stronger than ever, and their pulse is ready to race.

Raygun is set to chart a direction for pop-rock. Obsessed with stars of the past who embraced art as well as pop, they pay homage to the times when musicians did not only pretend to be stars, but became them. Now, stars in their own right, the band is all ready to take the world by storm. You have been warned.

For more information on Raygun:
http://www.myspace.com/raygunofficial