What happened to LUSH?

Awesome! Glad to hear Russell from Moose is still doing stuff. That was an interesting band.

The return of Moose!!!

Moose were one of my favorite bands, I own all four albums plus eight singles. Loved Lush too

So far they only have a couple of gigs lined up (one in London and one in Oslo).

lol Oslo is a venue in London, both gigs are in London (I saw Lush at Oslo in 2016)

Nov ’93, downtime at Rockfield studios recording Split. Emma, Ted Kessler @TedKessler1 and Phil don the ‘free with The Radio Times’ 3D glasses to watch bizarre Doctor Who/EastEnders/Children in Need mash-up Dimensions In Time #DoctorWho pic.twitter.com/EuyB8WydMA

— Miki Berenyi (@berenyi_miki) October 7, 2018

So far they only have a couple of gigs lined up (one in London and one in Oslo).

lol Oslo is a venue in London, both gigs are in London (I saw Lush at Oslo in 2016)

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Oops! Yeah that makes more sense :P

also I had no idea Miki and Moose were married?!?! mind blown

OK, I'm loving this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOWkkTKu3mQ

Predictably, this sounds exactly like a Lush-Moose collaboration, but in the best possible way.

Debut album coming up early 2019, BTW!

it's great!

https://stillunusual.tumblr.com/post/79544119507/alphabet-soup-fanzine

And I interviewed Miki (and Moose!) for Bandcamp:

https://daily.bandcamp.com/2019/02/13/piroshka-lush-moose-elastica-modern-english-interview/

oh! nice. is their album out yet?

ah, release on February 15th!

i like this
unsurprisingly!

there's a bit halfway through that track that keeps fooling me it's the start of 'Yes' by Mcalmont & Butler

The Piroshka album is really great, took a few listens to start to burrow into my head. The sound came first - really powerful and interesting drumming - then the lyrics started to stand out, too.

I need to check that out. I bought 'Everlastingly Yours' and really like it - much better than the four new Lush songs in their recent comeback year.

Great interview with Miki on the C86 podcast - she speaks frankly about Lush, the reunion, and the push/pulls of being in the industry and finding the fun in playing again.
https://www.c86show.org/e/lush-piroshka-special-with-miki-berenyi/

The Piroshka album is terrific - everyone should give it a listen https://piroshka.bandcamp.com

thanks for the link, that was a good long interview!

Phil has got a lot of criticism for bailing out of the Lush reunion quickly. But isn’t it that case that being in a touring band can actually lose a person money if, as is likely, success doesn’t come? Maybe Phil realized that financially he would take a loss from the attempt to revive Lush, and he would be better off working harder at some other job for his family’s sake.

Nah he already had a job (and still has it afaik), and legged it with only a few dates to go, including 2 big shows, right at the end of the proceedings. There were 'reasons' of course, vaguely alluded to on Instagram. None of my business like but as a huge fan since the very beginning who'd bought literally every thing they'd ever released and seen every tour bar none, it seemed a poor show on his part.

the whole thing was pretty weird.

In that C86 interview, it's mentioned that Phil said that he signed up for one year only and that he was out at the end of it. Miki also mentions that they had a very lucrative Coachella offer but that they had to drop out because of visa issues.

So:

https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/on-the-peaks-and-pitfalls-of-being-a-songwriter-in-a-band/

Interesting interview with Miki, provides.. some answers to some of the questions above. That stuff about the visa must have been an absolute kick in the knackers.

https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/on-the-peaks-and-pitfalls-of-being-a-songwriter-in-a-band/

oops!

.. but yeah good to hear some backstory.

It's like going on a "family holiday" with your parents and siblings only, long after you've left home and have your own fam.

It's nice (sometimes), but it also reminds you why you don't live together anymore.

"Out Of Control" reminds me of Ween oddly, really good song.

I only managed two songs into the Piroshka, I think I was expecting something a little less... conventionally rock, I guess?

I saw Piroshka tonight. They were pretty good, I've heard the album, haven't really connected with it yet but I like it. They finished with a cover of It's Obvious by the Au Pairs which was good. One song I kept thinking was Planet Earth by Duran Duran but it was just the bassline tbh

Digging the Piroshka album - the cover art, appropriately, is very 4AD.

Lush - A Far From Home Movie, by Philip King

https://www.soniccathedral.co.uk/2020/09/07/lushmovie/

cool!!!!!

Thanks for sharing Kibbutzki - have been listening to Lush quite a bit recently (Split in particular) so that was nice to watch.

Seems like Piroshka will announce new music (or something) tomorrow:

Will be bringing grannies and wolves everywhere a basket of news tomorrow... https://t.co/mqwHEl16fb

— Miki Berenyi (@berenyi_miki) April 26, 2021

And here's here's the first taste: https://piroshka.bandcamp.com/album/love-drips-gathers

Quite looking forward to this, the debut is a real grower!

I don't love the new single (Miki's vocals, mainly) but I like the production so I am looking forward to the new the album. I rarely want to hear more guitar on anything, but when Moose is involved they're always welcome.

Miki's book, out in September

https://www.resident-music.com/productdetails&product_id=89610

nice cover..

https://drsw10gc90t0z.cloudfront.net/AcuCustom/Sitename/DAM/402/thumbnail_Miki_Cover_Final_190422.jpg

Could be good.

Preordered, thx for tip!

Just got this

It sounds very frank and unglamorous from the press pieces I’ve been reading. Apparently Emma was really unhappy with it. Pretty courageous to talk about the insider shit of the business, it’s both gross and all-too-familiar.

where did you hear Emma was unhappy with it? They don't get on at all anyway, do they?

I was going to say, the reunion ended poorly by all accounts.

We can like them both, can't we? I'd hate to think there was a baddie in that relationship.

Never mind meeting your heroes, don't check who they follow on Twitter

The Times piece mentioned Emma's reaction - I can't access it any more: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/miki-berenyi-i-can-tell-the-truth-because-im-outside-it-all-now-gcpgfzvxc

https://wearecult.rocks/miki-berenyi-interview

there's other interviews where she mentions that emma's unhappy with the book & that they fell out after the reunion.