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Peri (or "PERI") are a 5-piece, bilingual pop/rock band from South Wales. The current line-up was formed in July 2010. They won the Varsity Swansea Battle of the Bands 2011 and came 4th in the Regional Final of Surface Festival 2011. Band member & song writing influences include Adele, Maroon 5, Blondie, Pink Floyd & Jimi Hendrix.

Songwriting & Albums
Contributions for songs come from all band members. Lisa writes all of the band's lyrics, in both English and Welsh, but some are translated by outsiders. One of the tracks, Come With Me, from the band's EP was written with Steve Balsamo and Henry Priestman, formerly of The Christians (band).

The band's EP, "Misquoted", was recorded soon after formation, in September 2010, and showcased 4 original tracks. Since then, the band have progressed in they way that they perform and write together, and they hope to return to the studio in 2012 to record new versions of some of the tracks on the EP, as well as a number of new tracks, in both English and Welsh.

Misquoted Track Listing
 * 1) Fallback Guy
 * 2) Shauna
 * 3) Come With Me
 * 4) Misquoted
 * 5) Bonus - Shauna (Acoustic)

Live & Radio
Peri perform a mixture of English and Welsh, electric and acoustic gigs. When performing live, they often include a number of covers, mainly as crowd-pleasers, with the band's own twist, so they are not simply 'covered'.

In 2011, Peri were interviewed and their tracks played on Newport City Radio and The Wave, a West Wales station. In April 2011 they performed a live session on BBC Radio Wales with Alan Thompson. These tracks can be heard on the band's webpage.

Band Members

 * Vocals - Lisa Rumble
 * Guitar - Luke Evans
 * Keys - Nathan Jones
 * Bass - Dan Richards
 * Drums - Martin Liles
 * Brass - Wayne Pedrick

Competitions
Peri have competed in a number of 'battle of the bands' style competitions. They came in the top four at Varisty Cardiff in January 2011, and won at Varsity Swansea in March of the same year. In June-September of 2011, Peri took part in Surface Festival. They reached stage 4 (of 5), the Regional Showcase, which was held at the Cardiff Coal Exchange, and came in 4th place of 16 bands. More than 70 Welsh bands competed in the event from stages 1-4.

Links

 * facebook.com/BandPeri
 * twitter.com/BandPeri
 * myspace.com/PeriMySpace

Listen to tracks and find gig dates: facebook.com/BandPeri/app_178091127385