Category Archives: blog

Velvet Sheep features Piney’s: Song For Ewe

10th December 2018blog, pressAngela Penhaligon

Piney chooses a “Song For Ewe” to share for Velvet Sheep. Read why she chose it here and stream Dreamcatcher and Great Pretend while you’re at it. Velvet Sheep calls Piney, “Everyone’s most favourite Kansan since Dorothy” Nice!

She Makes Music – Interview with Piney Gir

10th December 2018blog, Piney Gir, pressAngela Penhaligon

Piney bears all about life and love and all of that stuff in advance of her new album. Read this in-depth interview and get to know her better here: She Makes Music.

Silent Radio features Dreamcatcher video

10th December 2018blog, press, videosAngela Penhaligon

Watch Piney’s video for Dreamcatcher directed by Geoff Howell and read all about it at Silent Radio. “Swirling psychedelic synths are punctuated by twanging guitar, riff-led basslines and punchy saxophones featuring dreamy vocals spinning to infinity.”

Beehive Candy: Single Review – Dreamcatcher

10th December 2018blog, pressAngela Penhaligon

Beehive Candy streams Piney’s new single here along with a nice review “A rhythmic alt rocker, there is something hypnotic and engrossing about this song, the music and vocals are intertwined, as it quickly develops a level of intrigue, that’s hard to let go of.”

Beat Surrender Playlist – Dreamcatcher

10th December 2018blogAngela Penhaligon

Beat Surrender features Piney Gir’s new single Dreamcatcher on their playlist. Stream it here

Piney plays Manchester RNCM supporting Ride – Dec 4th

10th November 2018blog, concerts, press, tour dates, videosAngela Penhaligon

Manchester Gigs features Piney’s video for Dreamcatcher prior to her gig supporting Ride at RNCM, get tickets here.

Circuit Sweet – Dreamcatcher video feature & Tour Dates

10th November 2018blog, concerts, press, tour dates, videosAngela Penhaligon

Circuit Sweet features video for Piney’s new single Dreamcatcher and big up her forthcoming UK tour supporting Ride. This is what they said, “echoes of the signature Piney sound, with strong melodies, tuneful riffs and twisted lyrics that sound sweet at first listen and evolve to some kind of dark twisted storytelling” watch the video … Continue reading Circuit Sweet – Dreamcatcher video feature & Tour Dates →

Piney track on Joyzine charity compilation

8th August 2018blog, pressAngela Penhaligon

Nab your copy of the newly released Joyzine compilation album, and support a wonderful charity, Parkinsons UK, while you’re at it. This charity is close to Piney’s heart, so grab a copy of Piney’s new single Great Pretend along with a lot of other great music from talented bands, all for a great cause. Read all … Continue reading Piney track on Joyzine charity compilation →

She Makes Music: Track of the Week – The Great Pretend

18th June 2018blog, press, singlesAngela Penhaligon

Piney is honoured to be among a lot of talented women here on the She Makes Music ‘Tracks of the Week’ playlist, stream it here

Electric Sheep: There Ain’t No Revenge Like Prevenge

12th June 2017blogAngela Penhaligon

Piney met Alice Lowe in a South London art Gallery to talk about the making of her film Prevenge. Read all about it!

Robert Saxton’s Acoustic Heavy Metal – Piney blog post

10th March 2017blogAngela Penhaligon

Piney met up with Growler and Dr Robert Saxton to discuss their collaboration on the piece “Night Dance Fantasy” which will be performed at the next Union Chapel Daylight gig, March 11th… read all about it here: http://pineygir.tumblr.com

Huffington Post – Hannah Peel on Dementia & Memory Tapes

31st January 2017blogAngela Penhaligon

Hannah Peel met up with Piney to chat about her new album and its inspiration; what she discovered was a fascinating link between the brain and music… it goes deeper than you think. Read all about it, here: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/piney-gir/hannah-peel

Stubby’s Christmas Review

13th December 2016blog, pressAngela Penhaligon

Piney gets a rave review from Stubby’s Christmas Blog for her Perry Como Christmas cover, available for free download on the XO For The Holidays compilation “Piney Gir, to me, is this generation’s Bing Crosby”

Huffington Post – Hair, Style & Bowie’s Fear of Flying

13th October 2016blogAngela Penhaligon

Sometimes Piney blogs for the Huffington Post & this time she got to meet the man behind Bowie’s iconic red hair and the woman who designed his clothes for seminal film, The Man Who Fell To Earth. Read all about it here.

Huffington Post – Loz from Ride Grills Me About Violet Beauregarde’s Gum

13th October 2016blogAngela Penhaligon

Piney curated an art exhibition inspired by one of her favourite books, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Loz interviews her about it for Huffington Post

A Drake’s Progress: Blog Feature – Live Review

24th May 2016blog, pressAngela Penhaligon

Piney was delighted to see the mother/daughter team behind the blog A Drake’s Progress at her all-ages show at The Lexington for Loud Women. Here is just a little of what she had to say about it “the band served up a slice of their sunny, melodic, and…well…to be honest, a little bit loud, indie pop.” You can … Continue reading A Drake’s Progress: Blog Feature – Live Review →

Nick Loss Eaton Blog Feature: Oh God You Devil

19th May 2016blog, press, videosAngela Penhaligon

View the new Piney video for “Oh God You Devil” on the Nick Loss-Eaton blogspot #LostInTranslationVibez

Huffington Post – Aaaaaaaah!

1st February 2016blogAngela Penhaligon

Piney got to meet Steve Oram & talked to him about his new and crazy-brilliant-disturbing-wonderful film “Aaaaaaaah!” There was a surprise visit from Toyah Wilcox who discussed the challenges of doing a film with no real dialogue. Read all about it here: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/piney-gir/steve-oram-is-not-a-control-freak

Huffington Post – Losing Your Star Wars Virginity

30th January 2016blogAngela Penhaligon

Piney wrote this blog for the Huffington Post about 2015’s Star Wars comeback & the fact that there are grown men who have never seen the first Star Wars trilogy, yes really! http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/piney-gir/losing-your-star-wars-virginity

Nick Loss Eaton Blog Feature: Crimes and Mugs

30th January 2016blog, pressAngela Penhaligon

Read the story behind the cover art concept for mR hYDE’S wILD rIDE. “…like Sgt. Pepper cover for the digital age.”