Electrasy

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This article is about the band Electrasy. For the song by The Cars, see The Cars (album).

Electrasy
Background information
Origin	Dorset, UK
Genre(s)	Rock
Years active	1994 – 2002
Label(s)	MCA/Universal UK Arista
Website	www.electrasy.com
Former members
Steve Atkins, Jim Hayden, Ali McKinnell, Alex Meadows, Nigel Nisbet, Paul Pridmore

Electrasy are a British rock band formed in 1994. The band consisted of vocalist Alisdair (Ali) McKinnell, guitarists Nigel Nisbet and Steve Atkins, bassist Alex Meadows, drummer Paul Pridmore and keyboardist Jim Hayden (who left in 2001).

Electrasy achieved minor UK chart success with "Morning Afterglow" (reached #19) and released two albums, 1998's Beautiful Insane in the UK and 2000's In Here We Fall in the U.S., with some track overlap. Trouble with their record labels – first MCA/Universal UK and then Arista in the U.S. – delayed their third album, Wired for Dreaming, which has still not been released, despite the band's aspiration to sell it themselves online.

Electrasy's American album In Here We Fall features a cover of the Led Zeppelin song "Dazed and Confused". The song Cosmic Castaway, from the same album, was also featured on the soundtrack album of the 2000 animated film Titan A.E..

The Guinness Book Of Records has stated that the video to their single "Best Friend's Girl" features the group and members of the Official Laurel and Hardy Fan Club throwing 4,400 custard pies in three minutes.