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Strangefruit
12+ albums
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“Strangefruit is about great music, great songs, that’s it…” Jamie Perrett It’s not every band that can boast they played their first ever gig in Japan. But then Strangefruit are quite a long way from being like every band. Strangefruit have taken their favourite, most affecting parts from plangent folk and vintage jazz, fuzzed-out psychedelia and crunchy indie-rock and created something that sounds quite startling, quite unlike anything you have ever heard. This is a young band, but they sound fully formed, like they know precisely what they want and they know precisely how to go about getting it. Peter and Jamie are the sons of Peter Perrett from The Only Ones. The brothers first played together with Polar Bear’s Seb Roachford, Patrick Walden and another Peter, Doherty, in the original line-up of the infamous Babyshambles. Doherty invited Peter and Jamie to record with him in Bethnal Green – that was where the first version of Killamangiro was realised. Doherty even moved in with the brothers for a while, but a trip to Thailand, via The Priory, put an end to all that. Since then, Strangefruit have played with both Dizzee Rascal and Florence + The Machine. There is serious history here, a band who honed their sound playing long hours in Dalston’s Jazz Bar, a band in love with the spirit of Bob Dylan and Billie Holiday, with the freedom of Fairport Convention and the Velvet Underground, the soul of Mary Margaret O’Hara and Patti Smith, the attack of Arcade Fire, the vision
