OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE:
DATE: 17th October 2007 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

"Come on outside, I got somethin' to show ya..."

BOBBIE PERU have just released their stunning debut album, 'SOCIAL SUICIDE'.

They are no longer one of Manchester's best kept secrets, BOBBIE PERU create a buzz every time they play live, collecting admirers along the way.

"Brilliant band! Reminds me of the golden years of new wave and punk music" was the response from DJ CLINT BOON during their XFM Radio Live In Session last month.

Described by Sentimentalist Magazine of New York as "Hands down Manchester-bred Bobbie Peru are the best nu-gaze band in a while."

BOBBIE PERU: Lead Vocals/Guitar BERT GENOVESE, Bass DING: (The Fall, PJ Harvey, Frank Black) and Drums DOCTOR E.

'SOCIAL SUICIDE' contains thirteen blistering tracks that lodge between your conscience and your misguided inclinations. Forget everything you thought you knew - expect the unexpected with...

Swan Souffle / Luke Wake Up / Broken Bones / Lost Make Up / Sleep War / Bricks / Carbon Dated / Bon Bon Rue / 1971 / BF Skinner / Burning In Hindsight / Lucky 16 / Narcissus.

'SOCIAL SUICIDE' results in an awesome debut album that is as underground sounding as it is commercially viable.

"A warm cup of tea with a hint of arsenic" is how the band describe their own sound.

Released as a limited edition black vinyl effect CD and including a stunning 16-page full colour booklet complete with lyrics.

'SOCIAL SUICIDE' is available NOW online at http://bobbieperu.tripod.com/id11.html

ABOUT THE SONGS:

First on the menu is the mouth-watering 'SWAN SOUFFLE' served up with incisive humour and an infested punk attitude, followed by the blistering 'LUKE WAKE UP' an alarming wake up call to the six-sided man.

Doctor E. takes care of the 'BROKEN BONES' whilst penetrating your eardrums and vibrating your malleus bone with a precision that only a fully qualified medical drummer could. Ding's thumping bass and Bert's metallic shock riffs continue the treatment. Diagnosis: 'Don't eat chicken!'

'LOST MAKE UP' takes a snarling snapshot of family life, acquaintances and misplaced others who reside near Teen Bores Grove.

The dire social commentary of 'SLEEP WAR' pushes and pulls you back and forth before falling on you like a ton of 'BRICKS'.

The haunting, melodic serenade of the beautifully crafted 'CARBON DATED' will see you slowly drowning in a sea of melancholy, ending with a last gasp scramble of raw hopelessness and frustration. Bobbie Peru don't come up for air.

The raw roar of 'BON BON RUE' based on the Communist lexicon bounces along before lulling you into a false sense of security. An edible piece of bittersweet rock candy.

The blistering '1971' is a history lesson complete with a riff that sounds like an indie guitarist being guillotined. The CD has already sold out completely. This first released single complete with promo video brilliantly created by Seven/Seven Productions has already been viewed thousands of times online. You can watch the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iEMOKsFIRg

'BF SKINNER' takes the experimental analysis of behaviourism and serves it up all verbally raw and radical.

Intimate and desperate 'BURNING IN HINDSIGHT' is lovingly sprinkled with just a hint of irony. Eat some cake and then lose your head on 'LUCKY 16'.

'NARCISSUS' blends hazy Sixties Syd psychedelia with Seventies space glam and adding a dash of callous Gothic subculture to taste.

'SOCIAL SUICIDE' (Cat. No. 63447962046) is available now at http://bobbieperu.tripod.com/id11.html or at the following record stores: Piccadilly Records (Manchester, UK), Vinyl Exchange (Manchester, UK), Jumbo (Leeds, UK) and Phoenix Records (Waterbury, CT, USA).

ABOUT THE BAND:

BOBBIE PERU were formed January 2006 in Manchester. The lead singer relocated to the UK from the States to pursue a musical career. Progressing from his earlier solo acoustic soundscapes, BERT GENOVESE (Lead Vocal/Guitar) gathered a collection of local musical talents... DING (PJ Harvey/The Fall/Frank Black) - bass guitar and DAVIS EVASON - drums to form BOBBIE PERU, and began to blow minds.

They cook up a particularly demented stew with their ever-changing musical palette, which is an unpredictable mix of stabbing guitars, social commentary and a rhythm section coming through like a freight train.

The result: some of the most dynamic, catchy and distinctive compositions which will infiltrate your mind and encompass your soul.

Live they are a witches brew of destabilized rock and roll, randomness, style and raw energy, that will leave you breathless and begging for more. Their debut album 'SOCIAL SUICIDE' is a multi-dimensional experience of the power of positive noise, which is not to be missed.

"Commit to SOCIAL SUICIDE - it may just save your life."

QUOTABLE QUOTES:

"Brilliant band!" - Clint Boon (XFM Radio DJ) (Inspiral Carpets).
"Better than the fucking Prodigy." - Mark E. Smith (The Fall).
"St John Peel would've loved them." - Virgin Digital.
"Feels like a secret you're lucky enough to hear." - BBC Manchester Entertainment.
"Bobbie Peru deliver on every level." - Leeds Music Scene.
"With a name like that, you've got to check them out." - Sandman Magazine.
"Cocaine meditation for the masses." - Jim Jonnie.
"Easily the best collection of songs I've heard on one album this year." - BowieWonderworld.com
"Hands down Bobbie Peru are the best nu-gaze band in a while." - Sentimentalist Magazine (New York).
"Reminds me of the golden years of new wave and punk music." - Clint Boon XFM Radio Live In Session.

If you would like to receive a review copy of the album please email bobbieperu666@yahoo.com or http://www.myspace.com/bobbieperu

Check out http://www.myspace.com/bobbieperu where you can hear two exclusive brand new songs recorded in the studio last week - 'Friends In The Bank' and their cover of Devo's 'Whip It'.

MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/bobbieperu
Website: http://bobbieperu.tripod.com
Email: bobbieperu666@yahoo.com

© 2007: Rednik

Just finished reading a new book 'Dark Covenant' by Peter Luther.

Peter is a Bowie fan from Wales and this his is first ever published tome.

An absolutely fascinating read... tells the story of Lewis Coin who is next in line for receiving a magazine called The Shilling (which I believe should been the title of the book but that's by the by).

Weird and strange things start to happen - there's a crossword that links each of the chapters - it's really difficult to explain the concept - it kind of makes sense once you're reading it.

I couldn't put it down. The pages turned over by themselves!

The concept is quite unique and original. I guarantee you won't have come across anything like this before.

It made me laugh, gasp, cry, daydream, ponder and made my imagination go to places I didn't think existed - what more could you ask for in a book?

Gripping from page 1.

If this is his first novel I can't wait to read more.

THE BIRTH OF A BOWIE FAN

1972

We went on holiday to Cornwall did Mum and me. A song came on the car radio and it totally blew me away. I later found out that the hazy cosmic jive was called 'Starman' by someone called 'Bowie'. Then I saw him on TV, on Top Of The Pops. I thought he was an alien. Everybody thought he was an alien. He was an alien. I was eleven. I was besotted.

I bought it next day with my holiday spends. All I need now is a record player! Can't wait to get back home I'm sick of looking at an orange label. "I wonder what RCA stands for?"

Back in a back bedroom in Manchester with my new secondhand record player. The best place in the world. Never mind Cornwall it was crap. I bought 'John' with my pocket-money and I danced with him, and played it and played it again and (again). I got hold of a ticket for the Hard Rock. I've still got it. My mother wouldn't let me go. I absolutely hated her. She didn't realise, she didn't understand, so the lady bought me some 'Stardust' and then she did. I absolutely loved her.

The album cover said 'to be played at maximum volume'... it was! One thing I remember that totally confused me for a while was 'why would someone make love to his eagle?' Well anyway we had a budgie... and I loved that.

"Ziggy this, Ziggy that, Zig Zag Ziggy.
"Why don't you go out and play football?"
"I can't I've swapped it"... The Boy Who Sold The Ball.

On my birthday in October, we went to visit my Nan. I couldn't believe what she got me, she knew I was a fan. It was a 'ticker ticker' Timex with a red Bowie strap, a matching Bowie comb case and the first ever picture postcard of 'Dave Bowie'... and I've still got them!

THE BIRTH OF A BOWIE FAN:

1973

Number 1524, that's what I am, now I'm an official 'Dave Bowie' fan. It was football, painting, bird's eggs and Ziggy. And not in that order. I wonder what happened to the Free Trade Hall gig? I must've been playing out.

Running down the wing with a hedgehog on my head, when I get a bit older I'm gonna dye it red. Off came the eyebrows, on went the glitter, didn't get many jobs as a babysitter.

My schooldays were insane...

"He's a puff that Bowie is, he's a puff."
"So... so fucking what."
They didn't realise you get more girls that way. Wankers.

I did a morning paper round. Every week I sat down in the entry reading Popswop, Mirabelle and Jackie. I used to rip the Bowie bits out. I got the sack after three weeks.

Summer holiday...
Running round Blackpool Fun Fair I spot two Ziggy posters.

"Oi Mister. What do 'ave to do?"
"Score under twenty-one with three darts."
"OK."

First throw... 'four', second throw.. 'eleven', third throw.. 'two'
"Sixteen! I'll have that Ziggy poster please."
"No it's seventeen."
"Fuck off. It's under twenty-one isn't it."

So I try for the second poster. Could I get under twenty-one again? Could I bollocks. Seven goes I had, spent all my money... still only got one poster. The bloke just shrugged his shoulders. I walked off devastated. I went to meet my mum in the ice cream cafe, she was smiling and waving... she always looked fine.

"What have you won?"
"A Ziggy poster"
"So why are you looking fed up? It's a lovely picture."
"I've spent all my spends and I only won one, there was two of them."
"You spent ALL of your money trying to get the other poster?
"Right.. wait here with your brother."

She came back two minutes later with the other Ziggy poster.

"Thanks Mum you're great. You got under twenty-one then?"
"No the man gave it to me."

I don't know how my Mum did things, but she ALWAYS seemed to sort everything out. I found out years later that she threatened to punch the fella because he'd taken all my money. 'Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am!'

In with a bullet strikes a red and blue lightning flash... 'Aladdin Sane'. Or so the story goes it should have been 'Love A Lad In Vein'. I like to think it's an anagram of 'Dad's An Alien'.

"BOWIE QUITS" read the headline. I was mortified. My mum said it was all planned out: "He's more like an actor. He's just going to change into another role, you'll see." I didn't believe her.

"Who's that on the cover with Bowie?" asked my mum.
"Twiggy?... Isn't she thin?"
"No wonder she's got a boyfriend called Justin!"

The last track got me worried again... 'Where Have All The Good Times Gone'... well, they were just around the corner.

TO BE CONTINUED........