It all started when Miki Berenyi was on the promotional tour for her memoir Fingers Crossed – How Music Saved Me from success in 2022. Berenyi, never one to follow the crowd, chose to dedicate a large section of her memoir to her childhood rather than glamorise the indie music lifestyle. And when she was invited to play some songs from her storied career at the book launch events, instead of doing the typical solo acoustic shtick, she chose instead to create a trio for the purpose, prioritising a second guitar over any kind of live percussion.
The result is a spacey, textured mood sound, drawing somewhat on the roots of her early work fronting Lush and Piroshka, somewhere between Brit-pop and shoe gaze, with synthy layers and understated vocals.
The Miki Berenyi trio were born for a specific reason, and while they mostly were playing classics from previous bands, they gradually replaced those songs with new ones written for the longer sets they were getting booked for, the sound evolving and the band going onto tour the UK and Europe significantly and even drop by the famed KEXP studio in Seattle for a live set and interview.
2025 has been a busy year for the trio with their 9 song LP Tripla released in April to universal acclaim, followed by a couple dozen shows in the UK and Europe. But after a couple of quiet months, they will be taking their atmospheric sound back on the road, and it just so happens that Leicester is their first show back for this leg of shows. There is one more quick stop in Bedford for a matinee show before jetting West to the US to play their first proper tour as a group there.
The shows stateside will be their first and last US tour as a band, a decision made reluctantly, but not uncommon these days, citing financial viability, ‘I’m sad to say that the costs involved in touring stateside have become crippling for smaller bands like us, so this will be our last ever outing in North America.’
She goes onto say of their US tour, ‘we’ll be sure to include a bunch of Lush tracks in the set as a last hurrah and a thank you to long-time fans,’ so no doubt we will get a taste of these this weekend at Duffy’s as they warm up for the much anticipated US tour that will seem them playing such storied venues as The Great Hall in Toronto, Neptune Theatre in Seattle and finishing things off at The Roxy Theatre in Hollywood.
The people of Leicester have a rare opportunity to see them in such an intimate venue as Duffy’s – in the last couple of years they have played larger shows at 02 Academy Leeds, O2 Shepard’s Bush and Moth Club in London.
Expect sparse introspective melodies over clean guitar and 80’s drum machines on that small Duffy’s stage, the signature enchanting Berenyi vocals, hypnotic grooves and ethereal soundscape. And yes, most likely, quite a bit of Lush.
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