Peaches: 'We smoked a joint, started screaming and suddenly had some songs'

 had no idea I would become a musician; I fell into it. First, I had a band called Fancypants Hoodlum. It was quite expressive in terms of how I performed. I had good musicians with me and was learning to play electric guitar – to nobody other than myself.

I didn’t feel there was a community of people that I related to musically. I felt a kinship with a band called Spin the Susan. They reminded me of the band in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. They had two female singers and I wanted to start a band with one of the girls. She had a next-door neighbour with a basement jam room. There was another guy she had a crush on, who was in a band, so she suggested the four of us work together. Immediately I was like: “I want an all-girl band, this is not what I’m looking for.” But I went anyway.

I had the biggest attitude: I stared at them, I don’t even think I said hi. But they were super nice. There were keyboards, drums, an electric guitar, and mics for everyone. I pulled out my electric guitar and we started playing. Maybe it was because we had got super high – we’d smoked a huge joint – but we just started screaming stuff and jamming. All of a sudden, we started to write songs.


Source: theguardian