Piney Gir

Vic Twenty released a single on Mute records sub label Credible Sexy Units and toured the UK and Europe with Erasure.

She has collaborated with many successful artists, including Andy Ramsay of Stereolab; Rob Campanella from The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Eamon Hamilton from the band Brakes and British Sea Power; Sweet Baboo, Willie J Healey, Angela Correa of Correatown, The Real Tuesday Weld, and Simple Kid.

Whilst touring Peakahokahoo, Piney was offered a support slot at a working men's club with an Americana band and decided to try playing country versions of her songs.

The album was selected as one of the top five of 2006 by Phill Jupitus in the 5 December issue of Radio Times magazine, saying, "the stomp and twang of these songs of love and life are unmissable".

The second Piney Gir Country Roadshow album evolves from the classic, old-fashioned Nashville Sound of Hold Yer Horses into a more Laurel Canyon, country-rock style with a modern twist.

Jesus Wept was recorded at Bark Studio in Walthamstow with Brian O'Shaunghessy known for his work with Primal Scream, Denim and My Bloody Valentine.

She played Glastonbury Festival and was joined on stage by her former bandmates Georgina 'George' Terry and Katrin Geilhausen from all-female, art-rock band The Schla La Las.

You Are Here is Piney's 7th album and explores the spaces and spikes of angular art rock and pop inspired by Bowie's Berlin Trilogy, making heavy use of the Eventide effects box, which Tony Visconti said "f*cks with the fabric of time" and synths and sax reminiscent of Roxy Music.

Recording the album was a jam session, as Piney and her bandmates created the music spontaneously in the studio, sometimes in only one take, she worked with members of Gaz Coombes' touring band Garo Nahoulakian, Mike Monaghan, Nick Fowler and Tomas Greenhalf, as well as Rusty Bradshaw who played with Florence and the Machine and Harry Deacon who plays with Palace, and Razorlight.

Piney has been a darling of the BBC over the years, having done multiple sessions for BBC 1, 2 and 6, for Mark Radcliffe, Mark Riley, Stuart Maconi, Cerys Matthews, Tom Robinson, Gideon Coe, Bob Harris, Rob Da Bank, Bethan Elfyn, Janice Long, Huw Stephens, and more... she has been playlisted on BBC 6 Music and was featured live and in session on John Kennedy's Radio X X-posure show as well as the Radio X SXSW special in 2007, she's also been playlisted at Amazing Radio.

In the USA she has had support from KCRW, WXNA, KKFI and has made multiple appearances on NPR including Weekend Edition and Mountain Stage, sharing the bill with Calexico, Will Oldham and Bahamas.

Piney sang and co-wrote pop songs with Damon Minchella from Ocean Colour Scene and Steve White from Style Council and Paul Weller's band.

In her column Piney Gir brings good news to her readers, interviewing local people who are getting on with doing positive things for their community and want to share their uplifting stories.

Piney has written a series of articles for The Huffington Post, including a tour diary of going to Tokyo with Gaz Coombes, the day she met David Bowie's hairdresser responsible for his iconic red hair and also the wardrobe designer for the film The Man Who Fell To Earth, and Hannah Peel's Memory Tapes project - a series of playlists designed to help combat symptoms of Alzheimers and Dementia.

Piney's first venture into art curation was in 2016 co-curating an event with food artist Alice Straker at the White Conduit Gallery in Islington, London, the exhibition was called "Violet's Gum" inspired by the iconic moment when character Violet Beauregarde chews the gum that tastes of a 3 course meal before turning into a blueberry, in Roald Dahl's children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Firstly promoting Wired Women, a series of monthly events with Anat Ben David from Chicks on Speed, Seb Emina and Fiona Wootton at the Spitz, a now defunct venue formerly housed in Spitalfields Market and funded by the Dandelion Trust, they created a series of monthly events.

The events went on for almost 3 years before they hosted an all-day festival, taking over the whole of Spitalfields Market with an outdoor stage and workshops like radical cheerleading and teaching people how to play the Theremin.

Piney then went on to host a monthly club night with actress and performance artist Ceri Ashcroft aka The Juggling Spinster called The Village Green Preservation Society inspired by the Kinks song of the same name.

The club featured music, stand-up comedy, performance art, poetry and magicians; the night took place at The Betsey Trotwood pub in Clerkenwell from 2010 to 2013.

The concept stemmed from an audio book Piney put together several years earlier called "The Story of Piney Gir" it has musical themes for each character and different actors play the different roles in the story on the audio book, including Simon Bookish, Ali Shaw from the band Cranes, Louis Philippe, and A Scholar and a Physician.

Written by Jenny Newman, illustrations by Katrin Geilhausen, layout by Lydia Merrills-Ashcroft the story was narrated by Mark Radcliffe the book is available through Hope and Plum Publishing.

Piney Gir in Country Roadshow mode
Different hair, same Piney Gir
piney gir playing on stage
Piney Gir performing on the Park Stage with the Piney Gir Country Roadshow at Glastonbury 2007