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Froge.tour
Froge.tour () is a nine-date tour by the English band Piri & Tommy. Released to promote their mixtape '' Froge.mp3'', the tour began on 2 November 2022 at Belgrave Music Hall and ended on 19 November 2022 at The Warehouse Project. Sets included most of ''Froge.mp3'', several future singles, and cover versions of Chic's " Everybody Dance" and Crystal Waters's " Gypsy Woman". Their Brighton gig was opened by Coupdekat, while their London gig was opened by Maisi and contained pole dancing and Parthenope. These three gigs were between them reviewed by Alexis Petridis and reviewers from '' LeftLion'', ''Brighton & Hove News'', and ''Gigwise'', who gave what they saw a mixed reception. Background Piri, who had learned pole dancing while studying chemistry at Lancaster University, met Tommy Villiers in 2020 just before the second United Kingdom COVID-19 lockdown. They started calling each other 'froge' () as a nickname as Piri was in a phase of drawing frogs and toads. In June 202 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Froge
''Froge.mp3'' () is the debut mixtape by Piri & Tommy. It charted at No. 13 on the UK Dance Albums Chart. Released on 21 October 2022 and on vinyl on 22 April 2023 on Polydor Records, the album contains previous singles " Soft Spot", " Beachin", " Words", and " On & On" and eight further tracks about the pair, and was released to overwhelmingly positive critical reception. The album was promoted by a nine-date tour, Froge.tour, and a twelve-episode YouTube Shorts series, ''Froge.tv''. Critical reception was broadly positive, with ''Gigwise'' describing the album as the 45th best album of 2022, and ''NME'' rating it amongst the twenty best mixtapes and EPs of 2022. Background Piri met Tommy Villiers, a member of Porij and See Thru Hands, in 2020, after matching on Tinder, finding his band on Twitter, finding his Instagram account, and asking him if she could "shoot ershot", in that order. At the time, Piri was in a phase of drawing frogs and toads, and they started calling ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coupdekat
Katherine Reilly, known professionally as Coupdekat (), is an English musician. She is best known for cofounding Loud LDN with Maisi, but has also released two EPs and has supported Piri & Tommy on their Froge.tour. Life and career Early life Reilly was born in Luton and studied art and photography at A-level. She started playing the guitar when she was ten, and started writing when she was 14; her first works were about love and heartbreak. She was a member of several bands, including Electric Blue, which was previously known as Sunseed and dissolved during COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom, lockdown. She spent this period living in Leighton Buzzard, and after lockdown lifted, spent a year in Paris as an au pair, where she met several people who encouraged her to make music on her own; her stage name, Coupdekat (), was inspired by her time there. Solo career Reilly's first single, "Ur Only", was written while still in Paris, and her second single, "Love Online", a son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Deakin Davies
Charlie Helen Deakin Davies (born 9 June 1995) is a British musician from Walkern. They have released an EP, ''Green'', under the name DIDI, and the singles "Easy" featuring Piri and "Bumped in the Head" featuring Ellie Dixon as Charlieeeee. They have also co-written the Gary Barlow song "Let's Get Drunk" from the album ''Music Played by Humans'', co-produced the Ellie Dixon song "Swing", the Kate Dimbleby album ''Songbirds'', and the compilation album ''The F Spot Femme Fatales'', directed the Piri & Tommy tour Froge.tour, and supported China Crisis. They joined Loud LDN in August 2024. Life and career Early life, The Folk, and Delora Charlie Helen Deakin Davies was born on 9 June 1995 in Walkern, and attended Freman College. They got into music after being given an electric guitar by their father aged ten; around this time, they formed a band which played funk, indie, and grunge music, which they were in for around five years. Aged fifteen, they formed the Folk, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Villiers
Thomas George Villiers is a musician from Saffron Walden. While best known for his work with Piri and as part of Piri & Tommy, he is also noted for his membership of Porij and See Thru Hands, and as a solo musician and remixer in his own right. He is the great-great-great-great-grandson of the British Prime Minister John Russell, 1st Earl Russell. Life and career Early life Thomas George Villiers was born to Hugo Villiers and Elizabeth Shaw, and has an older brother Hamish and a younger brother Angus, a jockey. Hugo's great-grandfather was Thomas Lister Villiers of the Villiers family, a former chairman of the George Steuart Group, and whose grandfather was John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom between 30 June 1846 and 21 February 1852, and then again between 29 October 1865 and 26 June 1866. He grew up in Saffron Walden, and was a fan of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. He attended Saffron Walden County High School, at which he would p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parthenope Wald-Harding
Parthenope Ann Wald-Harding () (born 2002), usually credited as Parthenope is a musician from Swillington, England. She is best known for her cover of Norah Jones's "Don't Know Why", and is a member of Loud LDN. Early life Parthenope Ann Wald-Harding () was born in 2002 in Swillington and attended Chetham's School of Music in Manchester, where she studied jazz saxophone, and Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Her mother, Hayley, worked in a music centre. Wald-Harding was initially a violinist, which she played from the age of eleven after being gifted an 1804 Joseph Strauss by a violin teacher, but switched to alto saxophone after hearing her sister, Milly, play with a jazz ensemble, and after her mother received a shipment of instruments to sell, including an alto saxophone which she found she could not shift. In January 2020, she left her violin on a rack above her seat on a Manchester Victoria train; after her mother's Twitter appeal to find it went viral, she found it at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Official Charts
The Official Charts (legal name: The Official UK Charts Company Limited) is a British inter-professional organization that compiles various "official" record charts in the United Kingdom, Ireland and France. In the United Kingdom, its charts include ones for singles, albums and films, with the data compiled from a mixture of downloads, purchases (of physical media) and streaming. The OCC produces its charts by gathering and combining sales data from retailers through market researchers Kantar, and claims to cover 99% of the singles market and 95% of the album market, and aims to collect data from any retailer who sells more than 100 chart items per week. The OCC is operated jointly by the British Phonographic Industry and the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) (formerly the British Association of Record Dealers (BARD)) and is incorporated as a private company limited by shares jointly owned by BPI and ERA. The Chart Information Network (CIN) took over as compilers of the o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
On & On (Piri & Tommy Song)
"On & On" (stylised in lowercase) is a liquid drum and bass song by Piri & Tommy, from their mixtape '' Froge.mp3''. Released on 28 July 2022 on Polydor Records, it charted at No. 99 on the UK Singles Chart, and has appeared on a number of year-end best of lists. Background and composition Between 2021 and 2022, Piri & Tommy released three singles on EMI, " Soft Spot", " Beachin", and "Words". In June 2022, Piri & Tommy signed to Polydor Records, and on 28 July 2022, they released "On & On", which had been written shortly after the pair attended that year's Parklife Festival, a festival Piri would herself play in June 2023. "On & On" is a liquid drum and bass song; Villiers lifted the song's drums from an earlier jump-up track which, according to Villiers, featured "grotty Belgian bass". Remixes came from Sammy Virji on 23 September 2022 and Sudley on 7 October 2022, the latter of whom Piri would release a solo single, "Fumble", with on 28 April 2023. Reception Upon release, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polydor Records
Polydor Records Ltd. is a German-British record label that operates as part of Universal Music Group. It has a close relationship with Universal's Interscope Geffen A&M Records label, which distributes Polydor's releases in the United States. In turn, Polydor distributes Interscope releases in the United Kingdom. Polydor Records Ltd. was established in London in 1954 as a British subsidiary of German company Deutsche Grammophon/Schallplatte Grammophon GmbH. It was renamed Polydor Ltd. in 1972. Notable current and past artists signed to the label include ABBA, Cream, The Moody Blues, The Who, Ringo Starr, Bee Gees, The Jam, Bing Crosby, The Shadows, James Brown, Level 42, Ellie Goulding, Juice WRLD, Piri & Tommy, James Last, Eric Clapton, Marie Osmond, Keith O'Conner Murphy, Yngwie Malmsteen, Lana Del Rey, Haim, and Buckingham Nicks. Label history Beginnings Polydor Records was founded on 2 April 1913 by German Polyphon-Musikwerke AG in Leipzig and registered on 25 July 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |