Patricia Day
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Patricia Day is the bassist and lead singer for the Danish Rockabilly Band HorrorPops. She is married to Kim Nekroman, lead singer and bassist for the psychobilly band Nekromantix.
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[edit] On tour
She plays custom-created upright basses made specifically for her by her husband, Kim Nekroman. These basses weigh approximately half of what a normal bass does, have thinner bodies, and slimmer necks because her hands are much smaller than the average upright bass player. Patricia tends to use nylon strings and Gallien-Krueger 1001RB head and 410RBH cabs to push the slap sound while on tour.
Her trade mark is her heavily decorated white double bass that she painted herself, again, created by her husband. Also, although she's Danish by descent, she speaks English with a heavy American accent.
[edit] History
Patricia Day and Kim Nekroman first met when Day's now-defunct band, the punk rock group Peanut Pump Gun, opened for Nekroman's psychobilly band, the Nekromantix, at a festival in Cologne, Germany in 1996. Not only does she front tour-crazy Danish rock band the HorrorPops—who have spent most of 2006 touring Canada, Asia, Europe, and the States, including a Warped Tour stint—she does so while playing in the exhausting slap-upright style. Her slap lines are an integral part of the HorrorPops’ psychobilly sound.
[edit] Sound
The HorrorPops are a straight up Rock 'n Roll band with their roots buried deep in 80's new wave, old-school punk and 50's rockabilly. The band is led by Patricia on slapping upright bass and lead vocals, features Kim Nekroman on guitar, and also stars the always late & sick duo: guitarist Geoff and drummer Niedermeier. Last but defiantly not least, the band is flanked by the totally rotten Go-Go dancers Naomi & Kamilla. It must have been with some degree of daffy glee that the popular Danish bands Peanut Pump Gun, Nekromantix and Strawberry Slaughterhouse were stirred together. That is, after all, the only conceivable explanation of the Daffy Duck-coppin'-feels-off-Divine delight-and-surprise vibe that resonates in HorrorPops' debut Hellcat Records release, Hell, Yeah!
The HorrorPops autonomous handling of the production duties ensured a seamless, unbound, relentlessly fun vibe. Patricia's punchy upright bass propels songs that are defiant of categorization; they are at once more than and exactly elemental rock tunes
[edit] Origins
Both Patricia Day and The HorrorPops hail from Copenhagen, Denmark but the demon seed was planted in Cologne, Germany at the 1996 POPKOMM festival. Patricia, PPG's singer-guitarist, and Nekromantix singer-bassist Kim Nekroman met and discovered mutual affection for the sounds of Blondie, Depeche Mode, Siouxsie and the Banshees, surf, punk, ska, and good ol' rock 'n roll. They taught each to play the other's instrument and pledged to write songs that held no loyalty to any particular style.
