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"Bo Pepper in The Times"

While skimming through an email from GNER, offering discount train tickets to Yorkshire this Christmas, I noticed a mention of how successful their recent Battle of the Bands competition had been.

It’s a curious fact that, while the music industry is suffering a downturn, live music itself has never been more popular, with Battle of the Bands contests an increasingly popular way for brands to cash in on bands. No matter how unmusical their line of trade (trains, jeans, fizzy drinks), any random company can now boost their kudos by offering unsigned wannabe rock and pop stars the chance to play live against each other to win, well, what exactly?

Bo Pepper, a London band currently tipped for big things, explain that the prizes vary, but that it isn’t the winning but the taking part that counts. Indeed, if there were a competition simply for how many unsigned band competitions a band can enter, Bo Pepper would surely win. ‘Dolly’, their frontwoman, reels off their gains: “In the Capital Radio one we came second, which was good exposure. Coming second in the Diesel one was the right kind of market, because the indie judges from the Fierce Panda label and XFM radio wouldn’t normally have touched us with a bargepole - but it made us cooler. We didn’t win the The Road to V contest, to play at the V Festival, but it got us on Channel 4, which a lot of signed bands can’t even achieve, so that was worth it. Then we won Q magazine’s best unsigned band award and got to play at the Cavern in Liverpool. The Coca-Cola i-Tunes gig was a European competition and we were the British winners, so they flew us out to play a gig for MTV Italy and paid for everything. And tomorrow I’m flying to LA to play live on an indie radio station, because of a competition.”

Phew - it’s clear that if you already have some industry savvy, you can use these events to bypass the record labels - something Dolly knows all about, as she has had record deals under her real name, which she would rather not give. In fact, she recorded two whole solo albums, neither of which quite saw the light of day. “I’ve been down the route where you spend two hours in a marketing meeting discussing your hairstyle, and whole days re-shooting pop videos because a label executive thinks the first one gave off the wrong image - all that and the public never even get to hear your music. I actually think it’s quite uncool to be a competition-winning band: I’m well aware how naff it must all sound - but it means real people actually hear your songs, which is what it’s all about for me. We’ve got all this radio play without having to go through the label route of ‘you’re in or you’re out.’ Seeing as we’ve got no money, it’s free PR - a sprat to catch a mackerel.” - The Times newspaper


"Bo Pepper in Artrocker"


The singer in BO PEPPER is allegedley a furry puppet with red antlers. Hmmm! Could this be true? I'll have to ask Mamma. But even once you've accepted that the furry thing IS the singer, the music is great! Like St Etienne rubbing sun tan lotion over T-Rex on a crowded beach. Ahem.
RATING: BANANA MILKSHAKE - Artrocker


"Bo Pepper on www.perezhilton.com"

If you love the Yeah Yeah Yeahs or The Gossip, then you will love Bo Pepper.

We love discovering new bands, and this one doesn't even have a record deal yet!

Fronted by a feisty female and hailing from Britain, Bo Pepper rocks us hard.

The group just released this new video - featuring their puppet mascot - for their song Buses.

Check it out!

And, click here to listen to some other totally rad songs from Bo Pepper.

They're peppered! - www.perezhilton.com


"Bo Pepper in Music Week"

"I Haven't Got You Anything (This Christmas)"

Championed by Perez Hilton and heavily viewed on YouTube, this puppet-fronted video is putting Bo on the map. - Music Week


"Bo Pepper in The Sun"

"CHEEKY up-and-coming band BO PEPPER know how to get Bizarre fame — by giving it a mention in their video. The new single, No One But Yourself To Blame, is out on iTunes on Monday and the video is a cracker. The group, fronted by stunning singer DOLLY PEPPER, are soon off to LA to work with producer GREG WELLS." The Sun, 21st June 2008 - The Sun


Discography

"Blinkandyou'llmissit!" EP- released on Itunes April 2007
"I Haven't Got You Anything (This Christmas)"- released on Itunes December 2007
"No-One But Yourself To Blame"- released on Itunes June 2008

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BO PEPPER
www.myspace.com/bopepper
www.muzu.tv/bopepper

THE SUN:
“CHEEKY up-and-coming band BO PEPPER know how to get Bizarre fame - by giving it a mention in their video. The new single, No One But Yourself To Blame, is out on iTunes on Monday and the video is a cracker. The group, fronted by stunning singer DOLLY PEPPER, are soon off to LA to work with producer GREG WELLS.”

THE LONDON PAPER:
“We think the unsigned band is destined for big things.”

THE GUARDIAN:
“Bo Pepper will massage your senses with their effervescent punk-pop. Blinkandyou’llmissit!…sounds like the Knack’s My Sharona shrieked by Karen O through Julian Casablancas’ voice box.”

BBC MANCHESTER:
“Surprisingly and impressively, Bo Pepper combine elements of Blondie new wave, sixties pop and zeitgeist indie to killer effect, slipping the sort of lyrical hooks and musical barbs into your brain that slowly drive you insane with pleasure. And if the future star that is singer Dolly Pepper, brilliantly accessorized by a leopard print guitar, weren’t enough for you, how about the intensely odd reality of their twin brother drummers? Rest assured, Bo Pepper are something special.”

THE TIMES:
“Bo Pepper, a London band currently tipped for big things “

MUSIC WEEK:
“This puppet-fronted video is putting Bo on the map”

JONATHON ROSS:
Bo Pepper- Blinkandyou’llmissit!- I like that!”

THE HITSHEET:
“We think they tick all the boxes and with the right team will be huge. Bo Pepper are hot! They make cracking good indie and radio-friendly pop songs. We can hear influences ranging from Blondie to the Ting Tings.”

THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE:
“How is it possible that UK-based Bo Pepper remains unsigned when Perez Hilton has decreed that it should be otherwise? "I’m Bored" is the most unboring unsigned track to come out of the UK this year.”