Los Angeles Power Disco didn’t exist before COBRA MAN got together, and now it’s here to stay. The band formed by Andy Harry and Sarah Rayne is known for their 7 piece high energy spectacle shows and their collaboration with Worble skate collective. They have announced their grand return to the UK, with a date set at London Scala on Thursday 21st September. Tickets go on sale at 9am on Friday 2nd June, here.
Clean-up took longer than setup when COBRA MAN began, arriving with spectacle and leaving devastation behind. At lawless parties all over East LA, band leaders Andy Harry and Sarah Rayne built massive art installations and invented a brand-new genre of music in the process. Now, their sexy, infectious, urgent anthems power up an even bigger party, with the whole world as their stage.
Today, COBRA MAN delivers its message with music in the spirit of classic stadium anthems. Songs like “Heatwave,” “Living in Hell,” and “Light Me Up” already account for millions of streams. COBRA MAN devotees streamed “Bad Feeling” more than 2 million times on Spotify alone.
Their latest EP, New Paradise I, was released May 19th, 2023. Listen to that here
Often eerie and mysterious but always energetic and inspired, COBRA MAN songs mix the celebratory decadence of funk, street punk, and the b-movie splatter films that once filled video stores. It’s an end-of-the-world intersection of B-52s, Daft Punk, Chic, Devo, Judas Priest, and early Ozzy.
“The vision hasn’t changed much since the beginning,” says Harry. “I grew up obsessed with 70s rock, and early 80s electro. Sarah and I bonded over our love of the same obscure disco music. There aren’t many good rock/disco crossover bands. Nobody ever gave it a good run. What was missing from a lot of music was the universal feeling those tracks evoke for me and the sense of fun in the songs.”
Celebration, confidence, and fearless revelry remain at the heart of COBRA MAN. “We try to cover every part of it – well-written and well-produced music, for the people,” Rayne says. “We want to make the songs you hear when someone hits a home run or a fight breaks out at a hockey game.”
