"the new wave and us "

Far away from noisy and empty traks, this band is definitly a surprise.
Orchestra, transe music, violins and tuff keyboards are mixed for the best results.

« Our century is a non - label one » said Peter Rainman (vocals and production)
«  I always loved the idea that i could listen to Debussy, then to Erasure. Is nothing sacred!
Feelings are made of so many colors, why a record couldn't be so? »

The band's story began at the end of the eighties. Being a teen ager is having so many questions, stressfull answers or silence. Shy, strange and solitary, this was Peter Rainman at that time.
«  It isn't my real name indeed, but a good friend told me i was so strange that i was like Dustin Hoffman "RAINMAN". Actually, she thought i looked like him and it was true. »

The first shock was there: depeche mode – strangelove.
Very sensitive – already - He cried out listenning to A – HA, DEPECHE MODE, Yazoo and ERASURE. Add later New Order and the PET SHOP BOYS, you've got the whole list, still an influence for Pete.

« The eighties were so happy, so brilliant, so sexy that i' m still in. »

People theatre: the name comes from a 1993 interview from the pet shop boys. Neil Tennant wrote that he had the best time of his life with a group of friends, actors.
People theatre was the name of the place they used to work in. They swore to succeed in being famous, wich they did.
For Peter it's a kind of living comedy, an example of hope, will and souvenir.

« It's also the best strategy: a four people band is nowdays a mistake. I have ideas in the middle of the night: who could be able to follow me to the studio, ready to play? »

The project was to have a producer composer, with a lot of help around: singers, bass players, and so on. This means authority and money, so Peter became a dj.

« I mixed in so many places that i know how a music track could influence differently a crowd. » « the band had to be that way: various, serious, professional and sexy... when it's possible! »

The first track was a very good symbol about the band attitude, their feeling and thier ambition: a lonely voice singin' on an instrumental track from Recoil: stone. While recording, teen agers from poland came interested by the sound. Peter gave them a casstte and the track has been played on an underground radio, eastern of europe.
But everythnig was hand made: 4 tracks recorder, learning more and more. It was far away from their ambition. Radge, co singer and keybaord player stopped the experience, too busy by schoolwork. Peter thought being a lone musician was a danger for music and his mental health.
He so became producer of a lot of different bands:
School rags (electro gene), the shed, were tuff rocky bands (nirvana, ...) but he produced also more classical records, folk music, and created a lab with Jerry, a very good guitar player: kick burst.

« I was both a teacher and a student, very busy, by the way. I have a personal idea about being a producer: i am a spiritual guide in away, more than a technician with a good culture, a dictator or whatever. There is the meaning of growing up.
My ambitions moved to something more personal. It was time to change  »

Composition of love and emotion aka COLE was O P D. 1993 is the year of the birth of People theatre. People moving, bringing and taking, a human life, friendship and love.

« Very busy » He said. It was true: waking up at 8 am, recording for his own solo lp MAUER, then driving school, then recording with school rags and finally Denis for his first musical experience (a 12 minutes track!). Exhausted, but he was at the right place, his place.

And then came MAUER, the first lp recorded on a 4 tracks tape recorder. It was like thunder crashing all over.
«  Everything was easier, but not easy. The fact is that I was able to choose.

And, at last, the miracle: a computer!

« In the past, I had to record everything in live conditions for every new cassette made for friends! Picture yourself the change! »

A brand new wave