Gold Coast band Peach Fur set to release new album Earth Radio
One of the Gold Coast’s favourite live bands is releasing their first album since the pandemic. Here’s how they navigated creating new music, juggling work and keeping their passion alive.
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One of the Gold Coast’s favourite live bands is releasing their first album since the pandemic and have shared how they navigated creating new music, juggling work and keeping their passion alive.
Homegrown band Peach Fur are releasing their first album in three years, Peach Fur, on June 28.
Lead singer Denny Hilder, drummer Michael Woodworth, bass player Liam Ward and lead guitarist Benjamin Crichton said they were excited and “partially relieved” to be releasing their second album and first since 2020.
“This has been a long time coming for us,” Mr Hilder said.
He said they started writing the 17-track album prior to Covid-19 and the recording process took up to two years.
“It has been a rollercoaster of a process but we can confidently say we’ve put everything we have into this record,” Mr Hilder said.
He said Covid-19 had hit them at a time when they were reaching up to 7500 people a day on Spotify, putting a “halt” to their music world.
“Covid-19 was the most challenging time we’ve had,” Mr Hilder said.
“In saying that, we were so fortunate to live where we do on the Gold Coast because we didn’t get hit as hard as what some other places in Australia did.
“We are definitely a live band so being able to play seated gigs and stay somewhat present helped us keep the ball rolling to a degree.”
In 2021 Peach Fur won the best live act of the year at the Gold Coast music awards.
As of June 21 this year the band was reaching 9500 people a day on Spotify.
Peach Fur took a break from gigging over six months during Covid-19 but Mr Hilder said they were still working behind the scenes during that time.
“We were still focusing on writing and recording the album so while it did feel rejuvenating in that sense, we were still being creative,” he said.
Mr Hilder said they used a variety of sounds of animals, places in nature and man-made machines in their songs on the new record.
“We love a lot of different styles of music as well so I think the essence of this album has come through the diversity of genres we have touched on like Rock, Jazz, Psychedelic, Pop, Folk & Rap which ties into the name ‘Earth Radio’,” he said.
Mr Hilder said the band had no particular order with how they wrote each of their songs.
“Some songs I’ll build most of the foundation for and then take it to the boys and they all come up with their parts,” he said.
“We’ve also done some group writing sessions of lyrics on some of the tracks.”
Mr Hilder said they rehearsed at least once a week in their ‘Peachy Palace’ shed in Burleigh Heads.
He said rehearsing proved difficult at times with each member of the band holding a full-time job, but they always “found a way”.
Mr Hilder said fans would be glad to hear Mr Woodworth singing lead vocals on a new swinging pub rock tune called ‘How Many Beers?’.
Mr Hilder said they were planning on touring the album across Australia in late 2023 and hoped to make it to New Zealand in the near future.
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