Piney Gir
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Piney Bio
Growing up in isolation in the American Midwest, she went to a special Christian school (no Darwin, no sex education) and attended church 4-5 times a week; no sinful TV, no secular music… this left a lot to young Piney's imagination which flourished to fill in all the gaps...
Playing music from the age of 4 and writing songs in her bedroom, Piney went on to University to study percussion, but her shabby, ghetto apartment was robbed and they took her drums. So she changed her major to voice; "They can't steal your voice!" she reckoned. However, Piney never had the voice for Verdi and eventually came to London to work in a cocktail bar and figure things out.
She joined her first band, a synth pop duo (Vic Twenty) who released a single on Mute and toured Europe with Erasure. After seeing the world, she realised the road was in her blood, music was her sense of purpose and so she released her debut album Peakahokahoo on Truck Records in 2004. This was followed by albums with all-girl, art-rock, cult-classic group The Schla La Las, her solo Hold Yer Horses, 2009's The Yearling and then the critically acclaimed Jesus Wept a year later as The Piney Gir Country Roadshow.
Her new solo album Geronimo! is OUT NOW! on Damaged Goods.