New EP - I Have Not Slept One Wink

Last week in Perylsland, we went looking for the famed Rumour Mill of legend. We fired up the Bentley, took along 10 bottles of fine Port, some potted shrimp, and some foie gras… but despite trying to blast our way in with dynamite we just couldn’t find it. Goodness knows where rumours get made these days but we seem to have drawn a blank, so we’ll just have to create our own… like everything else, if you want something done properly...

So, here we go… “Peryls hint at new record”

There. Except it’s not strictly speaking a rumour, being as it is entirely true…

Yes… Lords, Ladies, Gentlemen, urchins, pickpockets, prostitutes and lunatics...

Our new EP, “I Have Not Slept One Wink” is now officially online here, and will be available on CD from next week, as well as from iTunes in a few weeks’ time. Unusually for us, it contains a mammoth seven songs and we’re pleased as punch with it. There’s a few new musicians and instruments thrown in, but you will still find that many of our themes are pitched at a comfortable distance from “cheery”.

It’s not a moment too soon either…we’re now just one week away from The Peryls’ Victorian Christmas Extraordinarium…
Hopefully you already know what and when this is… if you haven’t been paying attention then please see below:

Extraordinarium (noun) – A place of wonders, oddities and spectacle. pl. Extraordinaria.

“The handsome, well-respected Gentleman, accompanied by his lovely wife and seven splendid children enjoyed an amusing afternoon at the Extraordinarium”.

We’ll be launching the new EP with a Victorian-themed event at Antenna Studios in Crystal Palace on Saturday 12th December.

We’ll be playing the new record in full, as well as some tunes from our other two EPs with an expanded six-piece version of The Peryls. There’ll also be the quite wonderful Robin James as well as actors in costume, a terrifying Santa Claus, an arm-wrestling contest with a prize of Hendricks gin, a cake stall, some carol singers, magic lanterns, and a scary poet.

It’s free to get in, and it’s optional Victorian-style dress… when we say “optional” we do in fact mean that we will frown our very hardest frowns upon you if you do not partake – but don’t worry, there will be plenty of actors in Victorian garb, so you won’t be on your own. We’re miles more interested in enthusiastic dressing up than accuracy, so dig out that top hat! Or bowler hat! Or bustle!

Come and spend an evening with us in a part of Victorian London that we made up ourselves. You won’t find historical accuracy, but you will find mirth, music, and madness!

It’s free, did we say that already? FREE! … doors at 5:30.

Yours sincerely,

The Peryls Repertoire Company, by Royal Appointment to Archduke Friedrich-Wilhelm VII of Lichtenstein.

PS Here’s the link to the venue