February – The Perils

It’s that time again for Piewatch to pick its favourite artist of the month and find out all you ever needed to know about them! Here we bring you a classy rock band situated in Brighton on the South Coast and seeing as though Valentine’s Day has just passed, it’s appropriate that The Perils are here to show us some love! So congratulations to The Perils, our Artist of The Month for February

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Piewatch - Hi The Perils, firstly congratulations on making the showcase!

Thank you for having us!

Piewatch - Who are The Perils?

We are a notorious four piece rock band based in Brighton
Danny Mcgurn : Singer/Guitar
Darren Richards: Lead Guitar
Jonny Scafidi: Bass
Tom Heron: Drums

Piewatch - How do you plan to get your own fanbase to invest?

We have a few cunning plans but basically come see us play. That’s how.

Piewatch - Mick Jones of the Clash, once said about you guys “Give it a year and they’ll be bigger than us”. What! When! Where! How?

That was after we supported his new project Carbon Silicon at Coalition in Brighton 2008. He invited us backstage and said it with a big grin on his face and a big spliff in his mouth. whoever said you should never meet your heroes was wrong!

Piewatch - The tracks you reached the showcase with are from your last album “Good People Do Bad Things”, how was that album recieved?

It was received very well, and we all feel it is a solid first album. Of course it got reviewed by a couple of death metal websites but we won’t go into that!

Piewatch – “Lipstick Sister”, excellent track! Whats the story behind it?

Lipstick Sister is a song about experiencing new things sung in a nostalgic way. Most of which can be found in clubs, beds and small plastic bags…..

Piewatch – How does your new material compare to the old?

The newer stuff we feel to be more mature in lyrical content and its definitely going for a bigger feel, be it with large loud riffs or thick rich harmony and melody. The new songs so far are about people we know and have known in particular stages of life and what has led to that.

Piewatch – Who are your musical influences? Any unexpected ones?

Rolf Harris mostly, but we are quite fond of the Doors, Kings of Leon, The Beatles, Blur, The Kinks, and loads of other stuff both old and new.

Piewatch - If you could work with any producer/artist in the world who would it be?

I think its safe to say that if Kings of Leon wanted anything to do with us we’d be more than happy! That band writes impeccable songs.

Piewatch - Which in your opinion is the best track you have written and why?

Its difficult to say as we have been playing them for a while but i think the general consensus is that The River is our strongest track. I think its because its very rocky, you can dance to it and its a bit of a sing a long as well, plus there is always the live version we play which goes down exceedingly well with a few drinks!

Piewatch - Biggest musical achievement to date?

Finding the brown note. Or possibly Headlining White Air Festival 09

Piewatch – Describe your music in 3 terms…

Peril As Fuck

Piewatch - How have you found slicethepie and the scout system?

We like it! We got us a showcase and the scouts seem to like our stuff, we had some strange reviews but mostly they were really positive.

Piewatch – Any comical gig moments?

You want a list? Danny knocking himself out and causing stage invasions at both ours and other peoples gigs, Jonny attacking his bass amp before jumping into the crowd and launching his bass at the drum kit (and being picked up whilst playing by a 20st stage invader)….. Tom destroying his drum kit in new and ingenious ways, Darren playing is guitar solos whilst rutting with Danny is quite a sight and on top of that we’ve played on a moving bus (Danny nearly fell out the window….. Tom lost a few sticks) and in a newsagent, we showered the crowd at White air with free beers which we launched into the air whilst playing. We are no longer able to talk about the party with at Zoe & Normans house where we played twister with Zoe, but it was fun!

Piewatch - Which member gets all the girls and why do you think this is?

Jonny. He’s Italian. Nuff sed…..

Piewatch - Second opinion needed! We thought we would ask your opinion on the currently debated issue here at Piewatch. What is the ultimate 90’s footwear; Reebok Pumps or Puma discs?

Pumps!!!!!

Piewatch - Any irrational fears?

We’re all scared of loud music and guitars.

Piewatch – If you could have any superpower, what would it be?

The power to fix our van permanently.

Piewatch – Any last comments, plugs, or shout out’s to the fans?

We’d just like to thank you for the support and invite you all to come watch us play, then get drunk with us and do freestyle rap songs in welsh on an old guitar.

For an up to date gig listing please visit: http://www.myspace.com/theperilsarecoming

Muchos Gracias!

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