Peace

English indie rock quartet, Peace, are to return to Australia for a run of shows with Groovin The Moo Festival and their own headline shows.

Following an astonishingly rapid rise after their debut release In Love the band was quick to follow up with the sophomore album Happy People. “Our rise was unbelievably fast, it caught us by surprise by being on tour constantly we didn’t realise until we got back onto festivals a year later that we were suddenly quiet big,” says Harry Koisser.

Harry described the moment he realised the band needed to follow up the first album quickly. “The first time we did a festival tent where there was a couple of thousand people singing our songs back at us, I instantly knew I needed to write more songs,” Koisser explains. With that in mind before even finishing touring for the first album the band was already deep into writing and production of their follow up release. In probably an unexpected twist with the whirlwind ride of the first album and it’s response “shook up everything I knew about music, the industry and life. So I think I know less now than I did before,” Koisser enthuses.

Despite this, the bands is “really buzzing” for the Australian tour as they have been hearing “only good things” from friends and roadies that have done the Groovin The Moo Festival before. “I’m really excited to see a lot of artists that I wouldn’t usually see on the festival circuit. In the UK we wouldn’t really get the opportunity to play a festival that Charlie XCX would be playing so I think it’s really cool that there is a festival that is so diverse.” said Harry.

As part of the upcoming tour the group will also be switching from festival mode to intimate club mode constantly with a run of headline shows running concurrently to the festival dates. “I don’t know what’s going to happen but I reckon we’re just going to go all in and take everything we’ve got to all of the shows and see what happens,” says Koisser.

As a band known for their electric and dynamic spontaneous shows this is one band worth checking out if you happen to be at the festival or can make time to head along to one of their own headline shows.

May 8, Oxford Art Factory, 38-46 Oxford St, Darlinghurst, $39.60+b.f, oxfordartfactory.com