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Electro-pop duo Peter and Kerry will release their new single ‘Split For The City’ on November 26 through Believe Recordings/Tape Club Records. The track comes from the artfully well-observed debut album La Trimouille (out now), and follows Kerry’s recent collaboration with Lapalux through Flying Lotus’s Brainfeeder label, plus Peter’s pioneering score for the recent Saddler’s Wells’ ballet Vanity Fowl. Peter and Kerry will on the Tape Club label tour through November and December, including London 100 Club on 4 December.
‘Split For The City’ plays out a wry two hander between a corporate absentee husband and his restless housewife, their fractured exchanges saddled atop unabashed ‘Electric Dreams’ era synths. With boasts of ‘I drink cocktails at 12 / I don’t iron your slacks’ sat amidst the casual threat ‘maybe I’ll tell you I’m going out for cigarettes, but split for the city / To start afresh, away from you’, it’s perhaps no surprise that Uncut Magazine has previously compared Peter and Kerry’s pithy lyricism to the scripts of Ken Loach.
Peter Lyons and Kerry Leatham met in 2009, brought together under the wing of Tape Club Records - Leatham joining the label three years after Lyons. When a label tour required intensive rehearsals, an anxious Leatham found herself avoiding the label mate who’d go on to become her closest friend and collaborator.
“Peter and I didn’t really speak to each other at first,” recalls Leatham, “because we were both pretty shy. I’d purposely turn up late for rehearsals so we wouldn’t have to do the walk from the station together”.
A chance meeting in Soho subsequently broke the ice, as well as goofy comedy appreciation (the cheerfully fizzy, bass-driven ‘Annie’ from La Trimouille is an ode to Goldie Hawn rom-com, Overboard), and a mutual love of 80s electro pop. “We’re both suckers for 80s power ballads” says Peter, “songs like ‘Everybody Wants To Rule The World’, these horror shows of pop music”.
LIVE – TAPE CLUB TOUR
‘Split For The City’ plays out a wry two hander between a corporate absentee husband and his restless housewife, their fractured exchanges saddled atop unabashed ‘Electric Dreams’ era synths. With boasts of ‘I drink cocktails at 12 / I don’t iron your slacks’ sat amidst the casual threat ‘maybe I’ll tell you I’m going out for cigarettes, but split for the city / To start afresh, away from you’, it’s perhaps no surprise that Uncut Magazine has previously compared Peter and Kerry’s pithy lyricism to the scripts of Ken Loach.
Peter Lyons and Kerry Leatham met in 2009, brought together under the wing of Tape Club Records - Leatham joining the label three years after Lyons. When a label tour required intensive rehearsals, an anxious Leatham found herself avoiding the label mate who’d go on to become her closest friend and collaborator.
“Peter and I didn’t really speak to each other at first,” recalls Leatham, “because we were both pretty shy. I’d purposely turn up late for rehearsals so we wouldn’t have to do the walk from the station together”.
A chance meeting in Soho subsequently broke the ice, as well as goofy comedy appreciation (the cheerfully fizzy, bass-driven ‘Annie’ from La Trimouille is an ode to Goldie Hawn rom-com, Overboard), and a mutual love of 80s electro pop. “We’re both suckers for 80s power ballads” says Peter, “songs like ‘Everybody Wants To Rule The World’, these horror shows of pop music”.
LIVE – TAPE CLUB TOUR
- 22 November MANCHESTER Kraak
- 24 November READING Oakford Social Club
- 28 November WINCHESTER The Railway
- 29 November CARDIFF Undertone
- 30 November PORTSMOUTH Kraken Wakes
- 1 December BOURNEMOUTH
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