They trawled the country playing pubs to no people for years. They played indie tunes to techno fans regularly. But they kept going and the time for Peace has now come. Charismatic front man Harry and the rest of the band are selling gigs out all over the world. Their music is an intriguing mix of pop, indie, soul, post punk and glam rock sleaze that hooks you in with catchy choruses and carefully worded lyrical verses. They’re just about to release their second album, Happy People, and are playing two nights at Epic. If you like Bowie, Primal Scream, Arctic Monkeys or T Rex you’ll be down for Peace, no doubt. I spoke to Harry about the nature of post modernism and how they learned to be proper musicians for their latest album.


How did you first become a band? Dom started on me in the street in Worcester. I went to an open day to look round the university (where I ended up going). He was a bit chavvy in those days. We ended up being paired together in drama class and we became mates. He was mates


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with Doug, and Sam is my brother. So we formed this terrible band, but told everyone we were the best band in the world, and we believed it too. We used to play in pubs to no people. For a few years we went all over England not playing to more than eight people at any pub that would have us. We


kind of lost sight for a bit and people got other jobs. I thought it would be fun to start a new band called Peace, so we did. I was working in a techno club in Birmingham at the time and I managed to get the promoter to allow us to play to techno fans. I guess anyone that’s that messed up


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