Miki Berenyi Trio features an acclaimed and accomplished group of artists:
- Miki Berenyi (vocals/ guitar), a founding member, frontperson and rhythm guitarist of acclaimed and iconic shoegazer outfit Lush — and the founder and frontperson of acclaimed outfit Piroshka
- Kevin “Moose” McKillop (guitar), a founding member of acclaimed shoegazers Moose, Berenyi’s spouse and Piroshka bandmate
- Oliver Cherer (bass)
- Michael Conroy (bass), a member of beloved post punk outfit Modern English, who had a stint as McKillop’s bandmate in Moose and sat in on Lush’s last live show ever — and a member of Piroshka with Berenyi and McKillop, will be joining the band for their forthcoming Stateside tour
The trio’s first official single “Vertigo,” is a gorgeous and meditative track anchored around skittering heartbeat-like thump, atmospheric synths, swirling shoegazer guitar textures. The song’s arrangement and production serves as an atmospheric yet lush bed for Berenyi’s imitable ethereal and yearning delivery talking herself — and all of us, really — down from the precipice of endless anxiety and dread.
“Vertigo” has been a part of the band’s live set for over a year, and is one o the first songs they wrote together. “‘Vertigo’ is about anxiety and the efforts to talk myself down from the precipice – the usual cheerful stuff,” Berenyi explains. Talking about the recording process, she adds, ““It’s a challenge to not have a drummer, and to use more programming, but the essence of the music is still guitars and melody – as it always has been, particularly in mine and Moose’s bands.”
The accompanying video was filmed by French director Sébastien Faits-Divers in Dijon‘s Consortium Museum (Contemporary Art Center) in one of the Isabella Ducrot exhibition rooms, capturing the trio performing the song in the round — and surrounded by remarkably childlike and dream-like art.
So along with the new single, Berenyi recently released her acclaimed autobiography Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success here in the States through Mango Publishing. The book was originally published in the UK back in 2022 and details her internal battles: the conflict between her mouthy public persona and her thin-skinned private identity; the trails of being a woman in an infuriatingly male world; and the struggle to find a middle ground between “safe” indie obscurity and “sell-out” international success.
The Miki Berenyi Trio will be embarking on a Stateside tour. Most of the dates will have the equally legendary Lol Tolhurst and Budgie opening for them — and it includes a June 8, 2024 stop at Webster Hall. Check out the tour dates below.
MIKI BERENYI TRIO TOUR DATES
May 29 Los Angeles, CA – The Fonda Theatre**
May 31 Mcgill, NV – Schellraiser Campground
Jun 01 San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall**
Jun 03 Portland, OR – McMenamins Mission Theater**
Jun 04 Seattle, WA – Madame Lou’s**
Jun 06 Denver, CO – Bluebird Theater**
Jun 07 Chicago, IL – Bottom Lounge**
Jun 08 New York, NY – Webster Hall**
Aug 09 Margate, UK – Where Else
Aug 10 Brighton, UK – At The Edge of The Sea Festival
Aug 31 Ipswich, UK – St Stephens Church
Sep 04 London, UK – The Lexington
Sep 05 Southampton, UK – Heartbreakers
Sep 07 Birmingham, UK – The Hare & Hounds
Sep 08 Horwich, UK – Risers Fest
Sep 20 Saint Leonards-on-sea, UK – The Piper
Oct 19 Halifax, UK – Town Festival
**dates with Lol Tolhurst x Budgie