Greek girls ! Post Punk energy! Tearaway songs! | The Peach Story
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Durban`s almost all-girl teen band spill the beans!
Allan Rosenberg (Guitarist, Songwriter and Band Founder), Angie Becker (Lead Singer), and Graham Boynton (Band Manager) look back...
Take four Greek teenage girls, add in a Jewish guitarist with rock pedigree, mix in a handful of power, attitude drenched tunes and adrenalin fueled live performances, and you have Durban`s Eighties raunchy rockers, Peach. In this episode siren Angi Peach, guitarist Alan Rosenberg and manager Graham Boynton reunite in a raucous, unscripted ramble through the band's meteoric rise to fame- the highs, the lows, success and disappointment and the inevitable breakup...
all set to a soundtrack of fierce post punk songs.
Allan Rosenberg (Guitarist, Songwriter and Band Founder), Angie Becker (Lead Singer), and Graham Boynton (Band Manager) look back...
Take four Greek teenage girls, add in a Jewish guitarist with rock pedigree, mix in a handful of power, attitude drenched tunes and adrenalin fueled live performances, and you have Durban`s Eighties raunchy rockers, Peach. In this episode siren Angi Peach, guitarist Alan Rosenberg and manager Graham Boynton reunite in a raucous, unscripted ramble through the band's meteoric rise to fame- the highs, the lows, success and disappointment and the inevitable breakup...
all set to a soundtrack of fierce post punk songs.
Chapters
- 00:00 Introduction: Durban and the South African Music Scene
- 01:10 Allan Rosenberg's Musical Pedigree and the Rabbitt Connection
- 03:17 How the Greek Sisters Became a Band
- 07:39 Graham Boynton Names the Band and Rebrands the Members
- 08:26 Angie Becker's Start: Choir, a Toilet Rehearsal Room, and Genesis
- 12:30 Moving to Johannesburg and Signing to EMI
- 14:05 Graham Boynton: Deported, Returned, and Discovering Peach
- 15:35 The EMI Signing: McGinnis and Zameck on First Hearing
- 17:00 Early Recording, Malcolm Watson, and the First Chart Hit
- 18:55 Stage Outfits, Fashion Sponsorship, and Positioning the Brand
- 20:12 The Headline Billing Trick at the New Wave Gig
- 21:47 Life on the Road: Touring with the Asylum Kids
- 22:06 Angie on Growing Up Fast: School, Gigs and the Spotlight
- 23:57 SONG Nobody Loves You
- 28:47 Songwriting: Allan, Graham and the Album's Origins
- 33:20 Recording Live-to-Tape: No Auto-Tune, No Overdubs
- 34:13 SONG Look Sharp
- 36:00 SONG It's So Luvverly (Sitting on Fences)
- 38:48 SONG Flesh 'n Steel
- 40:55 The Trick: Provocation, Press Reaction and Fishnet Controversy
- 42:22 SONG The Trick
- 43:48 Middle of the Middle: The Genesis Obsession
- 44:33 SONG Middle of the Middle
- 47:08 XTC, the Clash and Marrying Punk with Prog
- 47:40 SONG A Lot of Things
- 51:27 The Sky Was the Limit - Then What Happened?
- 53:54 Life After Peach: Via Africa, Sun City, Beat the Clock and Savage Garden
- 57:09 Regrets, Reflections and the Legacy of On Loan for Evolution
- 01:00:36 SONG Nightmare
