Pete Fij & Terry Bickers
Pete Fij & Terry Bickers
Genres: UK, indie, shoegazeheroes
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About Pete Fij & Terry Bickers
After several years in musical hibernation, two former Creation label artists, Pete Fij(alkowski) (Adorable / Polak) and Terry Bickers (House of Love / Levitation) have joined forces to write and record a selection of downbeat acoustic-led tracks. Their forthcoming album, Broken Heart Surgery evokes a similar intensity as their celebrated, but more electrified, musical pasts, while suggesting that, in their advancing years, the two musicians have chosen to adopt the maxim 'quiet is the new loud'. Terry Bickers, once labeled by the NME as "a guitar god", is considered by many to be the missing link between Johnny Marr and Bernard Butler in the canon of great indie guitarists. His disappearance from the musical scene after his pivotal roles in The House of Love and Levitation, led to speculation that he was living as a recluse on a remote island with the ghosts of Howard Hughes, Bobby Fischer and JD Salinger, when in fact he was strolling the seaside streets of Brighton. It was there that he met Pete Fijalkowski, former frontman of Adorable, who had a string of indie hits on the Creation label in the 1990s, and Polak who released two acclaimed albums on One Little Indian towards the tail-end of that decade. It was during his Polak days that the Independent on Sunday proclaimed Fijalkowski to be the "most under-rated lyricist since Jarvis Cocker last put pen to paper". Sounding like a three-in-the-morning jam in which Johnny Cash, The Velvet Underground and The Everly Brothers try not to wake the neighbours, the songs on Broken Heart Surgery, as the title suggests, all pursue a lost-love theme, but from varying perspectives from the cinematic 'Parallel Girl' analysing the world of “what ifs”, via the paranoid edginess of 'Breaking Up' chronicling the division of household objects, to the seemingly bitter yet ultimately tender love song “I Don't Give A Shit About You'. Rumours that the two former Creation artists are working together has seen them being invited to play abroad, and the pair have already aired their new material to audiences in Germany, France and Spain. More UK and European dates are to follow. www.facebook.com/petefijterrybickers
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