PEGGY SUE

Peggy Sue is: Rosa Slade, Katy Young and Olly Joyce.

For the past 18 months Peggy Sue have been happily and successfully booking their own sell-out shows, writing and recording their own records – a collection of sought-after, but sold-out, EPs – and building a fanbase the envy of their contemporaries.

Through old-fashioned hard work and by embracing new technology Peggy Sue have unintentionally pioneered a new business model in a now fractured music industry. They weren’t looking for a traditional record deal but when Wichita Recordings stepped in, after witnessing a Sold Out ICA show in November 09, it was obviously a meeting of minds and as the band’s favourite record label, the allure proved too strong. The deal was signed in December 09 and not ones to waste time, Peggy Sue’s debut album will be released in April this year.

Peggy Sue are doubly blessed with having two songwriters in Rosa and Katy and with the addition of drummer Olly early last year, together they’ve developed the Peggy Sue sound. A sound they’ve honed playing shows with Mumford & Sons, Laura Marling, The Maccabees – all big Peggy Sue fans and part of a loose-knit community of like-minded musicians. Peggy Sue have toured with them all, bewitching audiences from Glastonbury to Brixton Academy; similarly, offers to work on their album have been forthcoming, ‘Fossils And Other Phantoms’ has songs produced by Steve Ansell of Blood Red Shoes and Ben Lovett of Mumford & Sons, the rest of the album was recorded in Brooklyn with producers Alex Newport (Two Gallants) and John Askew (The Dodos).