Marcus Pepperell and John Hamson Jr. have been musical allies since meeting at secondary school. With a shared love of music, and all of its intricacies, the next natural step would be to produce and create sounds together. As a duo they’ve enjoyed various incarnations – arriving at their current, critically praised state – THUMPERS. With, ‘Galore’, their debut album, garnering the support and momentum to fuel them through an extensive tour, they wouldn’t settle for the respite of downtime and now we reap the benefits in a newly released ‘Together EP’.

With accolades from NME, Pitchfork and The Line of Best Fit amongst a host of others, the new release is a sonic assortment of duets and collaborations featuring the likes of Chloe Howl, Blood Red Shoes, Sun Club and Hunger Games actor, Jena Malone – the latter featuring on the opening track, ‘Devotee’.

The band suggested we get a guerrilla performance of ‘Devotee’ on one of the few remaining London public pianos, under a railway pass. So that’s exactly what we did.

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Hailing from Palenville – a small hamlet; Simone grew up with music – spending his teenage years in a punk band that rehearsed in the acoustic confines of his Grandpa’s barn. Eventually he would team up with his brothers Ian and James – to form The Felice Brothers, to much success and critical acclaim before forming and leading another band – ‘The Duke & The King’.

Simone is a published author, whose words and music have been a ticket to destinations worldwide – from readings of his poetry, personal invites from Rick Rubin to play drums in LA, and touring his songwriting across Europe and beyond. He’s currently in the UK – playing a string of intimate, absorbing and largely acoustic performances of tracks featured in his latest, very well received ‘Strangers LP’, amongst many more from previous releases.

Last week, Wonderland met Simone at St Pancras Old Church, during soundcheck for his sold-out show. The sound of Felice’s vocals reverberating off the old church walls alongside the open-face piano was too good not to record. So we got this exclusive acoustic performance of the breathtaking ‘Bye Bye Palenville’.

Simone plays another performance at St Pancras Old Church on Friday December 5th – and we certainly recommend it. Get a ticket fast whilst there’s still some remaining.

Check out all things Simone Felice over at http://www.simonefelice.com/ –
Treat yourself to the Strangers LP here – https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/strangers/id838339101

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Stills by Roo Lewis – @roo_lewis

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