American sister rock duo The Pierces, in the UK to promote their fourth album, talk about their colourful background, including breaking up, being reunited thanks to Coldplay and being kidnapped by a cult.

 

Meeting The Pierces is an odd mix of glamour and domesticity.

 

The sisters Catherine and Allison Pierce are well-groomed and ready for the day, even though it's the non-rock star hour of 10am.

 

Their East London penthouse displays remnants of last night's self-cooked curry, while freshly-ground coffee bubbles away on the stove.

 

This peculiar scene derives from a single purpose: The New Yorkers have temporarily moved to London to promote their fourth album. And they'll be damned if they're meeting the press without full hair and make-up.

 

If they seem unusually devoted, it's because they nearly didn't make it this far.

 

 

Catherine (right) says she would have become a painter if the band broke up

"We've been singing professionally since we were little kids and we'd been doing it professionally for over 10 years," explains Allison, the elder sister.

 

"But in 2008 we got to the place where the energy had gone. We felt like we'd been beating a dead horse. So we broke up.

 

"And then the very next day, Guy Berryman, the bass player from Coldplay called us and asked us to support them in South America.

 

"We took it as a sign to get the band back together."

 

"It was the shortest break-up in history," Catherine says. "One night. That's it."

 

Reformed and reinvigorated, the sisters chose not to tour with Coldplay, but accepted Berryman's offer to produce their album. Then they "cast a spell" to get a record deal and, within days, Polydor came calling with an offer.

 

Tales of sorcery and passion loom large in the Pierces' back story.

 

Their previous band biography described how, aged 16, Allison was kidnapped by "a radical born-again, gypsy dancing troupe that whisked her around the country on a dilapidated bus".

 

Catherine was once engaged to The Strokes' Albert Hammond Jr. Neither sister will admit their real age - and no amount of Googling yields an answer.

 

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It's no fun to fall half-way in love”

 

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Director Tim Burton would love characters like this. Coincidentally, The Pierces music would fit perfectly into one of his movies.

 

Take, for example, Love You More, the first track the released off their album, You & I. It's a baroque tale of burning devotion.

 

"Do we fall in love easily? We try to," says Catherine.

 

"What's the point if you don't?" her sister asks.

 

"It's no fun to fall half-way in love."

 

More at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13459827

You're a little late about this if I may say so :P

 

We've been talking about this and Guy producing their album in this thread :)

:embarrassed: woops! ive been off the coldplay scene for a while but now i finished uni its impossible to find out what new with out missing things out! my bad! i guess it can be deleted