Raw Enough: The Candy Snatchers Return

Formed in 1992, the Virginia Beach-based Candy Snatchers made quite a first impression—their unpredictable, often unhinged, stage performances frequently included pyrotechnics and blood-letting—when they played legendary Virginia clubs such as Norfolk’s Kings Head Inn and Richmond’s Twisters, and later toured the U.S. and Canada.

After 16 years, three albums, and more than a dozen singles, the Snatchers dissolved following the 2008 death of guitarist Matthew Odietus.

But a decade after disbanding,  the Snatchers have never been hotter. "Moronic Pleasures," a new release on Berlin, Germany’s Hound Gawd label featuring lost sessions from 1997, is earning raves and garnering new fans. The current interest has spurred the gang to start it all up again.

Read "Raw Enough," my Virginia Living Magazine piece on the Candy Snatchers and their unlikely resurrection, by going here.

And for more on the Candy Snatchers, go here.

(Photo by the mighty Lori Golding)