Peace - HMV, Arndale, Manchester (11/2/15)
Callum Thornhill
A 300 capacity crowd stormed the store in the Arndale Centre after the band announced on their Twitter
they were adding in-store performances to their J'adore tour.
Alongside
performances, fans had the chance to chat to the band and get their
copy of Happy People signed.
Lacking
bassist Samuel Koisser and guitarist Douglas Castle, Peace stripped back
their usual buoyant sound to simply being front man Harrison Koisser
and drummer (and self confessed rock rep) Dominic Boyce.
Performing acoustically, Peace performed new tracks in the form of title track Happy People, Someday and I'm a Girl. As well as these, Peace performed classics Wraith, Float Forever and Lovesick.
As part of the HMV reward scheme,
Sam Carson was able to get to the front as well as receiving a free Happy
People CD. He was the first to meet Harrison and Dominic and told me me
how Harrison revealed that Peace will be playing Reading & Leeds
Festival again this year.
The
HMV signing is prior to a string of Manchester gigs for Peace in March,
it will certainly be devastating for fans who haven't got tickets to
the March tour after the performance given by Koisser and Boyce.
Before
the release of Happy People, there was an option from Peace's official
website for fans to order exclusive signed copies of the album, both on
vinyl and CD. This is an easy way for bands to show fans that they still
care for them.
Bearing in mind that vinyl copies of In Love are
now going for £80 upwards, signed copies of Happy People may be a tidy
investment. Don't let the cost fool you though, Peace are certainly no
massive headline festival band, they're a chirpy bunch of friends from
Birmingham. Maybe 2015 is the year for them though..
Listen here to the acoustic Lovesick here:
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