RGG September 2015 - p.8
Trying to pin down the sound of Peace is a tricky
business The Birmingham based four piece brought
together by bonds created by siblings scrapping and
school have careered from the classroom to
Columbia Records in a short period of time and lead
singer Harry Koisser reflects that it’s probably the lack
of a precise plan that has allowed them to travel so
far so fast “I’ve been thinking recently we don’t know
what we’re doing we’re just doing it If we had a
manifesto it would probably be ‘We have no idea’ I
quite like the way that stuff just seems to happen ”
The route may not have been planned with military
precision but the boys in the band have always known
the destination they wanted to reach The Koisser half
of the band brothers Sam and Harry were born in
Kidderminster and thanks to their parents alumni of
“really ’s” new romantic band ‘ to Midnight’ they
were provided with instruments to play with from an
early age “I always wanted to be a drummer because
my dad was a drummer and I thought it was the
coolest thing ever” says Harry “I was when I started
playing drums but a couple of years later I saw a video
of Jimmy Paige playing live in
with these flares
on covered in moons and stars and I was like ‘Oh my
god guitar is the coolest thing ever’ so I started
learning guitar when I was about ”
When Harry started playing with
his first teenage band the
delightfully monikered Farmyard Juice brother Sam
picked up a bass and joined in; but it wasn’t until
Harry the younger Koisser went to th form college
in Worcester that he met the lads that were to make
up the rest of Peace “I met Dom Boyce [Peace’s
drummer] because he came up to me in the street
rolled up his sleeves and he started on me!” laughs
Harry “He thought I’d pushed over a girl who was a
mutual friend at a house party but she’d just been
wasted and fell It wasn’t until we bonded in
college over a mutual love of John Bonham that we
made friends and he introduced me to Doug [Castle
Peace’s lead guitarist] who I became friends with
because I photographed him from a tree while he lay
on the grass and wrote ‘LOVE & PEACE THIS IS THE
FUTURE’
times over the photograph I still have
that somewhere ” Really? Ed
A cover of Sting’s ‘Shape Of My Heart’ sealed the deal
in terms of the boys deciding they wanted to make
music together sowing the seeds that Peace’s sound
would eventually sprout from “When we first
started out our sound was a lot more dirty and
post rock our local bands were people like Lovvers
and Fuck Buttons who we went and saw and were
really influenced by early on All our songs were like
or minutes long and were a lot looser and epic
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