Peggy Sue + David J Roch @ Forum
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127-129 Devonshire Street
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/// Peggy Sue
Peggy Sue (fka Peggy Sue and the Pirates) are an indie folk band from Brighton in England. Peggy Sue have toured with a number of well-known indie artists in the UK including Kate Nash, Mumford & Sons and The Maccabees. The band have also released music under the name of Peggy Sue and the Pictures, a collaboration with Left with Pictures, and Peggy Sue and Les Triplettes. Peggy Sue is signed with Wichita Recordings, and the label announced the release of the band's debut album Fossils and Other Phantoms for April 2010.
'Like the mythical sirens, Rosa Slade and Katy Young – the London-born, Brighton-based frontwomen of Peggy Sue – sing with a lilting sweetness that is wholly deceptive, belying the undercurrent of fury in their lyrics, the agitations of their music. Unlike the sirens, however, they sing not to lure men to destruction but to detail the wrecking of their own hearts. Whether it’s Young musing on duplicitous relationships (Watchman) or brooding on how she would spoon with an ex (The Shape We Made), or Slade struggling to forget the smell of a former lover by slinking downtown, where “I see your face in everyone”, the two women appear horribly bruised by love. This could make for a miserable album, and it does slide into morosity in its middle section. Mostly, though, they combat melancholy with some startlingly abrasive, PJ Harvey-style guitars, giddy whirls of accordion, and a thrilling array of clattering, thundering, sharp and snappy percussion from their show-stealing drummer, Olly Joyce' Guardian 4/5 Album review.
/// David J Roch
Formed from the remains of Curbar and the remains of himself after everything around him came crashing down. He fell out of love with music for a good 6 months and thought that the world may have well fallen out of love with him, after realising for the last time that maybe he does have a purpose and without being arrogant maybe a talent, maybe not, he chose to start writing again. After 6 months of falling over words and melodies in his mind he's ready to play for friends, loved ones and those who he doesn't not know yet, all of the songs are deeply personal to David and those around him whether they know it or not. Some of the songs played on here will never be played live for fear of not making it to the end.
Influenced by anybody and nobody ranging from Ella Fitzgerald to Tom McRae via the Buckleys and incorparating some Billie Holiday. He's been featured on MTV's Spanking New Music and is published by SonyATV.