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APRIL
2008
Welcome
if this is your first visit - and welcome back if you have been here
before. this here is the official peach (g.b.) web site, as maintained
by original members of the band and their friends. things have
been a little slower around here than usual - babies are being born,
all kinds of musical projects are going on, the basic lowdown is:
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peach
founder members simon oakes and rob havis have been creating new
music as suns of the tundra, which peach fans mostly seem
to enjoy rather a lot. if you haven't done so yet, check out the suns website:
www.sunsofthetundra.co.uk.
you can still order limited edition digipak formats of the last two
new albums (suns of the tundra 2004
and tunguska 2006) from there, as well as t-shirts and merch.
plus there's some cool photos and films and stuff.
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die
hard peach fans in search of something (old) new should
check out the peach
myspace (if you ain't already) - there's a cheeky little
film from all the way back in 1992 posted there. the
suns
myspace also has some neat multimedia freebies.
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there
is now a peach / suns forum.
Join in and Ask
questions, share opinions with fans. The band aren't shy, you're
sure to get answers.
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anyone who was at the u.k.
download festival in 2006 might have caught suns
of the tundra playing on the same day as tool - which hadn't
happened since 1994 and was pretty fucking cool, all things
considered. music magazine KERRANG! described the suns
set as "expansive, epic songs in from rock's outer limits ...
they wear their progressive wanderlust as a badge of honour,
ushering in the day with style and grace. Magic." suns
even played a couple of old peach tunes - you lied and
spasm.
live nation have kindly shared some of the
footage they filmed with us - here are a couple of extracts (they
are also posted on the peach and suns myspace
pages)...
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Download UK 2006
courtesy Live Nation
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You Lied
Download UK 2006
courtesy Live Nation
(42Mb) |
for more information about
the re-release or any enquiries concerning peach/suns management and
live bookings, please contact dolores@sunsofthetundra.co.uk
www.sunsofthetundra.co.uk
     
SUNS of the TUNDRA (an evolved form of the band formerly known as
PEACH) recently completed their new full-length album Tunguska.
buy album
Listen to audio
extracts
track 1
track 2
track 5
track 7
track 8
track 11
love
that review!
according
to Glitz, SOTT 's last album "sounded like Rush
on downers, very eerie, great vocals, goes into a bizarre middle
eight with saxophone which by rights shouldn't mix with this style
of music but they get away with it successfully. Doomy, emotional
heavy rock." That just about sums up sott nicely, we
say. Rush rule!
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kerrang!
gave the second suns of the tundra album tunguska
an awesome review:
A
band so cool that Tool nicked their bass player and covered their
songs, SOTT share their musical soulmates’ exploratory zeal, if
not their mischievous haughtiness. Am exercise in sprawling space
rock with a tough, rhythmic core, ‘Tunguska’ takes the listener
on a rollercoaster ride of jarring twists, elegant turns and
unexpected detours. It’s a demanding album, but an inclusive and
accessible one too. From urgent opener ‘Caught telling the
truth’ through the nine-part 30-minute ‘Insignificance’ and
beyond, this is one to enjoy without distraction. KKKK (4/5)
Written
by DOM LAWSON, 12 April 2006
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- The Organ made
the first SOTT CD its "Album
Of The Week" waaaaaaaaaaaaaay back in 2004. The review was so good
that we are still shamelessly reproducing
it in full here, over 12 months later. Thanks, Sean!
"SUNS
OF THE TUNDRA – SUNS OF THE TUNDRA (Shiny Mack) - There’s
a bit about five minutes in to the wonderfully titled tenth track
- Syzygy Part 111 - where it just builds up in such a so
heartwarmingly good and soaringly triumphant way and oh
yes…….. Suns Of The Tundra have us
hooked well before the last of the ten very big tracks though –
life is indeed peachy. Shall we kick in with a mad minute of
history here and go back to the start of the 90’s when for a
fleetingly glorious time you just had to be at every Mint
400/Peach gig at places like The Falcon and the West Hampstead
Moonlight Club and the Sausage Machine and how the two closely
related bands were to have such a big influence on Tool and indeed
supply them with a bass player and how for a time it was like this
knowing sister/brotherhood of camp followers and how sometimes the
magic is just there – nah, we’re not here for history lessons
– next you’ll have me stalking the streets of Hammersmith is
search of the unreasonably impossible and long lost whitesnakes
(and trying to rebuild the Clarendon just to see Bolt Thrower and
The Stupids play together again) – all that is like giving birth
to a stone.
"So Peach
became Suns Of The Tundra and here’s the new Peach album or the
new Suns album (whichever way you want it) and yes – hang on,
just got to tell you about this bit half way through
“Bottlenecked” that’s totally utter classic Van Der Graaf
– the Suns know this, they know Van Der Graaf are the greatest
band of all time – Suns Of The Tundra understand these things,
their sound comes from the dark tower beyond the blasted oak. The
Suns sound is a sound all of its own though, its got fishes that
can’t fly and neither can I, it tastes of the great god Hammill
and Tool and the glorious dynamics of Mint 400 and early IQ - the
Suns Of The Tundra sound is something altogether different and
equally as powerful (and totally compelling). Gloriously English -
dramatic, dynamic, spiritual in an almost pagan/medieval sense –
nothing you can pin down, it’s just there in the wood of it
all.
"It’s the
nearest thing you can get to English desert music, it’s standing
on its own, ah, I wish I could explain it – like a new bird
unfolding. Some of it feels like the best bits of Monster Magnet
or God Machine or an even more dynamic Mogwai - ultimately it’s
Peach taken another step forward and soaring higher than ever -
and without Peach you might not have had Tool and without Tool the
musical landscape might not be quite what it is today and……
OK, enough said, look, you need this album – its nothing like
anything I just told you, its far better than that, I was just
fishing around for the words and failing again."
http://www.organart.demon.co.uk/neworgan94.ht
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