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PEACE P


eace are an indie-rock quartet from Birmingham, made up of brothers Harrison and Samuel Koisser, Douglas Castle and Dominic Boyce. Signed to


Columbia Records, they have just come off the back of the NME tour and their new album is out on March 25th 2013. Audra O’Brien from Loud Magazine sat down and had a chat with Harry about the rollercoaster the last few months have been.


Nice to meet you. Can you tell me a bit about how Peace came together? How did you guys make the leap from wanted to start a band to actually doing it? Well, we always knew we wanted to give the band a go, but it started out with us doing a few gigs and then messing about with our own songs. We initially released a song online just to test the waters, but then almost overnight it got something like 2,000 listens. We weren’t expecting that reaction but at the same time it compounded our belief in ourselves and our ability as a band.


So you think social media helped you get noticed? Absolutely, yeah. Starting out in 2010 we were doing odd gigs, and building a fan base but our main connection to our fans and to the industry itself was through social media. We are four guys from Birmingham who had absolutely no connection, no contacts whatsoever to the industry. Even based in


Birmingham, we had no connection to London, we didn’t really know anyone down there. So for us, social media was so eff ective to get ourselves out there. After we released our demo in 2011, all of a sudden we had scouts coming to our gigs, A&R people showing up, it was fantastic.


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