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The Pierces: Guy off of Coldplay is the new Baby Jesus

By | Published on Thursday 10 February 2011

The Pierces

According to The Sun, New York-based sibling duo The Pierces have proclaimed that Coldplay’s Guy Berryman is like Jesus, after he resurrected their career. Though surely that would make their career like Jesus. Oh, I don’t know. Anyway, I can’t find the actual Jesus references in the quotes The Sun subsequently publish, so who knows what they said.

But here’s the story: having slogged away for a decade, and having been tipped as the next big thing various times along the way, sisters Catherine and Allison Pierce decided to go their separate ways. But then Berryman appeared before them like the angel Gabriel.

Allison explains: “We broke up as a band. We felt like there was no more energy left in The Pierces. We couldn’t get out of our record deal. We had a kind of tyrant head of the record label. I remember we were on the phone and we said, ‘This is over. This is done’. We wanted to do solo projects. And then the very next day Guy called us and changed our lives for ever”.

Berryman himself said, as if he was Moses coming down from Mount Sinai: “Myself, [co-producer] Rik [Simpson] and the girls formed a little gang of four and we just beavered away in the Coldplay studio and Electric Lady Studios in New York. I haven’t really made records with anyone on this level before. I had to learn a whole bunch of new skill sets – about how to speak to the girls as a producer, rather than speaking to one of my band members. I definitely feel that the process has made me better at what I do and what I know”.

The Pierces release a new EP entitled ‘You’ll Be Mine’ on 7 Mar, followed by their new album ‘You & I’ on 23 May.

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