news="To a capacity crowd at Battersea Arts Centre, Perico play a strange and rather delightful set, replete with echoing cornets. . .An animation show performed by the Paper Cinema, displayed on a big screen in unison, compliments the songs with romantic images of revellers caught up in a dark but sweet world of their own making. Itīs a strange improvised cocktail not on any existing menu, but Perico know how to make and shake it." Battersea Arts Centre, May 2005.
"British bands rarely move so effortlessly between the Modern and the Antique. The songs have a resonance of Thom Yorke that is plaintive and often beautiful, but onstage this band are a debauched cabaret in miniature. . .a cluttered Curios shop of wood, brass, effects boxes, strange costumes and a live īPaper Cinemaī peep-show where bizarre characters rampage in dream-like, Svankmajerian landscapes . . .Unique and unmissable!" Emma Cowing, The Scotsman, 2005.
"Last yearīs favourite new-comers Perico are a truly original young band who mix spaghetti western, flamenco, Weimar cabaret and Mexican ranchera in a unique atmospheric style." Peter Ashton, Larmer Tree Festival, 2004.
"Perico show real song writing ability beyond the obvious comparisons. Recommended." Maxim Fernandez, Glasswerk, 2004.
"Imagine a musical landscape full of romance, with flamenco-style acoustic guitars and trumpets; with sudden bursts of passion and slow interludes of implicit tragedy. The only British band I can think of who cultivate their fertile garden without a care for a world of fashionable facsimiles. . ." The Mind's Construction, 2004.
"Morricone meets Radiohead. . .Love the instrumentation!"
David Holmes, 2004.
As Perico begin to play, The Paper Cinema rattles to life below the stage, projecting a Pandoraīs Box of dislocated landscapes - forests, seedy cabaret bars, seas, stars, the inside of a whale - inhabited by mythical, half-ling paper characters nurtured from ink-blotches in an artistīs sketchbook.
The Paper Cinema tells tales of sorts, but the characters keep stumbling in on each others scenes, with a dream-like respect for chaos. The Paper Cinema is the creation of artist Nic Beard with performance assistance from Imogen Charleston.