Peter and Kerry release their debut EP, ‘Clothes, Friends, Photos’, on April 4 (Tape Club Records). The duo are solo artists in their own right, but a fortuitously chance meeting led to them penning a collection of their own original songs.
Kerry Leatham developed an early love for Van Morrison, Erykah Badu and Ani DiFranco (perhaps her biggest influence). Having been signed up by ATC, and busy at work on her debut album, Leatham was discovered by Tape Club Records, whose artists all write, record, produce and gig together (and, as the name suggests, often release their results on tape).
Leatham consequently moved to London, where she was introduced to Peter Lyons, a burgeoning solo artist from Southampton, who was working as a writer/producer/arranger for a soundtrack company. Lyons’ own creative output is based around electronic loops, samples, and a general sense of cut-and-paste pop: he has been producing music since the age of thirteen, and recently worked with Matthew Herbert on a film score. Yet despite their drastically different backgrounds and musical sounds, Peter and Kerry hit it off, and started writing material of their own. Sessions were swift, productive and written and recorded entirely by the pair across a few days in Peter’s artfully dishevelled Southampton bedroom; the exact scene of which is captured on the EP’s striking front cover.
Kerry and Peter will announce plans for their own solo work shortly, whilst continuing to collaborate, together with their fellow Tape Club members, on other projects.
