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Peggy Sue and the Pirates

"We go together like shooby doo and whop bam boo"

About Me


'...JUST A BAND...' - SCROOBIUS PIP
'SMEGGY POO AND THE TOILETS' - Dockers Mc's friend in Leeds
this is our video for New Song made by the lovely Gen Bailey
This is us talking a lot of rubbish to NYLON magazine in Kings Cross...
************************** MONTHLY CDS***************************
EVERY MONTH THIS YEAR WE WILL BE MAKING A LIMITED
EDITION CD FEATURING DEMOS OF OLD SONGS AND NEW
SONGS AND COVERS OF SONGS WE LIKE. WE WILL RECORD
THE DEMO IN ONE DAY AT THE END OF EACH MONTH AND
THEN MAKE 100 COPIES OF EACH CD ONLY. THE COPIES WILL
GO ON SALE ON THE LAST DAY OF EACH MONTH & ONCE THEY
ARE ALL GONE WE WON'T BE MAKING ANYMORE
THE TRACKLISTING EACH MONTH WILL BE A SURPRISE...
YOU'LL JUST HAVE TO TRUST US...
JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH AND APRIL ARE ALL SOLD OUT!!!
MAY WILL BE ONSALE AT THE END OF THE MONTH. X
************************** MONTHLY CDS***************************
or DOWNLOAD BOTH TELEVISION AND NEW SONG FROM PURE GROOVE AND GET EXCLUSIVE TRACK 'OLD STUPID MOON' FOR FREE (you can pre-order the 7" when your there too.. convenient!)
EXCLUSIVE EXTRA FREE TRACK AT PURE GROOVE:

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/20/2005
Band Website: WWW.PEGGYSUEANDTHEPIRATES.COM
Band Members: We like to pretend we are a band, but in truth we are just two people. Rosa Rex Katy Klaw a guitar called the Stud (he's our boyfriend) and Sir Pablo, our rather impressive guitar tuner who cost £70 but doesn't really work all that well.FOR ALL IMPORTANT STUFF PLEASE CONTACT THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE AS WE WILL ALMOST DEFINATELY FORGET! -MANAGEMENT - [email protected] - [email protected] - [email protected]
Influences: janis joplin, cat power, the gossip, Regina Spektor, The Ronnetes, Johny Cash, le tigre & Julie Ruin, jeffrey lewis, J.B.Lenoir, moldy peaches, siouxous sioux and the banshees, Peggy Lee, Daniel Johnston, Billy Mahonie, Jet Johnson, Joanna Newsom, bjork, cocorosie, Ian dury and the Blockheads, fiona apple, the beatles, sleater-kinney, yeahyeahyeahs, Lauren Hill, bright eyes, The Fugees, the noisettes, radiohead, Sonic Youth, Leonard Cohen , Bob Dylan, Diane Cluck, Skip James, Erykah Badu, bratmobile, bikini kill, hanson, joseph arthur, nina simone, billie holdiay, The Velvet Underground, Blondie, Nico, The Clash, The Specials, eels, the knife, gomez, the slits, hole, ben kweller, jeff buckley, Holly Golightly, kate nash, Joni Mitchel, The White Stripes, David Bowie, Peaches, Son House, Be your own Pet, devendra banhart, kings of leon, the arcade fire, The spells, Throwing muses, Comanechi, cake bake betty.
Sounds Like: The best thing you've ever heard, prepare to wet your pants
Record Label: none
Type of Label: None

My Blog

the final march track list, johnny flynn and SW, and Ladyfest

Poor old Katy Klaw. No one can deny she's a good workman, however I think it's safe to say the Postmodernism addled her brain. In fact it could be argued that all this confusion and contradiction is a...
Posted by Peggy Sue and the Pirates on Mon, 12 May 2008 03:38:00 PST

THE DISORDER OF OUR MARCH CD

Somewhat distracted by essays about Postmodernism and such Katy Klaw managed to put the tracks on our March CD in an incomprehensibly strange order. She would like to blame the computer on which she b...
Posted by Peggy Sue and the Pirates on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:11:00 PST

press and ting

Here is some stuff that nice people wrote about us in magazines.We’ve only just recovered from the fact that we were in NYLON and PLAN B magazines which is why its taken us so long to put these ...
Posted by Peggy Sue and the Pirates on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:23:00 PST

SAT 8TH MARCH - WHITECHAPEL GIG

hEY Y'allwe're playing a gig in London saturday night - part of the Birds Eye Film festival - a celebration of new films by women filmmakers from around the world.Its at the Whitechapel Art Gallery an...
Posted by Peggy Sue and the Pirates on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 02:38:00 PST

Monthly CDs and Nylon magazine and not much else apart from rambling

Hello to anybody who might read this. haven't written a blog for ages, and my last attempt was criticised as being of a terrible standard.In my defence I was hung over. Me and katy have...
Posted by Peggy Sue and the Pirates on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:36:00 PST

TELEVISON on Rough Trade "Counter Culture 07"

Here is the tracklisting for Rough Trade's 'Counter Culture 07' compilation CD which came out in the shops on monday 11th feb.Read it and weep homies....CD1 01 Woods - Be Still 02 Meg Bair...
Posted by Peggy Sue and the Pirates on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:56:00 PST

non, je ne regrette rien.

Last Saturday was the strangest of experiences. I have only just recovered which somewhat explains why I'm only just writing about it - although obviously the usual disorganisation has something to do...
Posted by Peggy Sue and the Pirates on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 09:20:00 PST

January, February, March... Demos

So... We're going to be starting a bit of monthly tradition over here in Peggy Sue world.One day at the end of every month we're going to record ourselves practising and then make a CD out of the best...
Posted by Peggy Sue and the Pirates on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:06:00 PST

KID HARPOON TOUR

YO so even we're hitting the road again at the end of February to support Kid Harpoon for a few shows.All the gigs are 14+ except for Cambridge which is 15+ for some reason.There are tickets available...
Posted by Peggy Sue and the Pirates on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:12:00 PST

ATTENTION - FREE DOWNLOAD INFO

Hello chaps...sooo.. theres been a bit of a mishap and apparently the free download codes weren;t put into all the singles yesterday so if you bought a vinyl that didn't have a little number inside he...
Posted by Peggy Sue and the Pirates on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:35:00 PST