In the meantime Peach Pit is keeping busy with the release of a new video, “Seventeen” off Sweet FA. for a tour that includes a stop at Seattle’s iconic Bumbershoot Festival.Ī full-length album is scheduled for release this fall. The video for “Drop the Guillotine”-in which singer-guitarist Neil Smith details a friend moving in on the one he loves-has meanwhile clocked an impressive half-million YouTube views.Īll that’s led to requests from bookers to play in places far beyond Vancouver promoters have reached out to group from both India and Indonesia.įirst, though, Peach Pit-which includes guitarist Christopher Vanderkooy, bassist Peter Wilton, and drummer Mikey Pascuzzi-will be headed to the U.S. Since then the world has slowly been discovering the band’s winning brand of Tropicália-tinted indie pop.Īfter being posted on YouTube this past February, the dreamy “Peach Pit” has piled up nearly 1.7 million listens (yes, you read that correctly), commenters praising the song as the perfect soundtrack for summer memories they wish they had. Gord Downie looked to be higher than even the stoners in the crowd, particularly when he sat down on the stage and drove around like a race car driver. winning praise for finding beauty in the pain and disappointment that comes with almost all relationships, not to mention life in general. Tragically Hip singer Gord Downie, diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor, offers an affecting album with Broken Social Scenes Kevin Drew about the plight of Canadas indigenous population.
The festival, celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2023 under new leadership of New Rising Sun (Joe Paganelli, Greg Lundgren and Steven Severin), is a. Peach Pit first caught our attention back in May of 2016, with the Vancouver quartet’s four-song debut Sweet F.A. Established in 1971, Bumbershoot: Seattle’s Arts & Music Festival takes place over Labor Day weekend and stretches across the 74-acre Seattle Center beneath the city’s iconic Space Needle.
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