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little fish - baffled & beat

Little Fish are a duo from the UK, featuring self taught guitarist and singer JuJu Sophie and Nez Greenaway on drums, the pair have just witnessed perhaps the craziest year of their life, culminating in the release of their debut album Baffled & Beat.

Legendary singer/songwriter Linda Perry was that impressed with the band’s demos that she flew over to the UK to see them perform, in a pub in Oxford. Perry signed Little Fish on the spot and took them to LA to produce their first album.

It was Perry who set new goals for the band, in particular in the song writing department where she pushed JuJu to new and unexpected heights by constantly pressuring her for new material.

Little Fish earned their stripes on a string of support dates, sharing stages and venues with the likes of Placebo, Them Crooked Vultures, Hole, Juliette Lewis and most recently Blondie.

The end result of an intense year or so is the album Baffled & Beat, a real gem of an album repaying the faith that Perry and others had shown in Little Fish from the start.

As much material as possible on the album was recorded live in the studio , capturing Little Fish’s amazing energy and enormous sound almost to perfection.

Little Fish seem predominantly a garage rock/ post punk band, but there is so much more to them and while JuJu plays the aggressive, articulate and loud front woman to perfection, her softer side on tracks like Sorry State, with the brilliant line ‘Why does misery like company’, Lucks Run Out and the title track prove that the girl really does have an incredible voice.

In fact it is the underlying melodies that set this album in a category of its own, given the chance Baffled & Beat has all the credentials to reach a mainstream audience while remaining true to the cult status that Little Fish currently enjoy.

The first single from Baffled & Beat is not the obvious choice for me, Whiplash gives a reasonable taste of what Little Fish are about, but there are other tracks that are more radio friendly, in my view. None the less the single Whiplash will be released on September 6th.

Little Fish will headline the BBC stage at the Reading/Leeds Festival this coming weekend and at the following venues in September:

8 Sep      Proud Galleries                    Camden Town

18 Sep    Southsea Festival                 The Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth

26 Sep    Underground Festiival        Gloucester

22 Oct    SWN Festival                         Cardiff

22 Oct    SWN Festival                         Cardiff

For more information visit the Little Fish MySpace page.