Pink Turns Blue are an influential post punk band from Berlin, Germany. Formed in 1985, they were part of the first generation of gothic rock in Germany and released 1987 their first LP, If Two Worlds Kiss with a sound reminiscent of new wave with very dark undertones and use of synthesizers, and went to become part of the developing sub-genre of dark wave. Musically they orient towards post-punk bands like early The Cure, The Chameleons or The Sound. In 1988, their second album Meta was released which carried the keyboard heavy The Cure sound to extremes and their second single, Your Master Is Calling, got them TV appearance in Tele 5, was on rotation of many radio stations. In 1992, Pink Turns Blue recorded their sixth album, Perfect Sex, with David M. Allen, the producer of The Cure and Sisters of Mercy. In 2021, the band released their eleventh album TAINTED which received overwhelmingly positive responses, including ‘album of the year 2021’ by Byte FM (Hamburg), top album of the year 2021 by Post Punk Com (New York) and 4 songs from the album entering the German Indie Disko Top 40 for more than 20 weeks with @There Must Be So Much More on chart position 1. Also, three tracks ended up in the top 200 Indie Disko 2021 Annual Charts. For fans of: The Cure , Sisters of Mercy, Killing Joke, Depeche Mode, The Chameleons, The Sound, Siouxsie and the Banshees

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