Shock Opera has been played on NTS in shows including Freedom To Spend, featured first on 11 December 2024. Songs played include African Telephones.

Shock Opera was a moody goth band from Dallas, Texas that lasted from 1989 to around 1992. Fronted by Frederick Glazier and Angi Johnson, they had one demo album release and have their most famous track, Lestat, on The Tales From The Edge volume 2 released in 1991.