Last night I got in my car and I didn't have anywhere to go really. I just had to hear that big blasting booming 80's sound thumping from my car.
Pip Brown is her real name and she grew up in the 80's. And here's her explaining her music a bit...
“Me and Ladyhawke are two sides of one coin,” explains Pip. “She is an incredibly important part of my personality. As primarily, a songwriter, I only ever wanted to create something that evoked feelings. I hope that Ladyhawke does. We were all teenagers once, listening to music at full volume, jumping on the bed with the door shut.”
It's a mash of all her favorite 80's female lead influences and I swear you could pull anyone of these tracks out and send them back to the 80's in a time warp and they would be gigantic radio hits.
Imagine, Stevie Nicks, Joan Jett, Lita Ford, Laura Branigan, Olivia Newton John all rolled into one under a disco light and you have Ladyhawke. This is music that I've been drooling over for the past year or so. So I may be a little biased. But as passionate as I am about Stevie Nick's voice. It's not very common. That light and fuzzy cuteness with some attitude and power. It's great stuff, stuff that you listen to and fall in love with.
A fierce lulluby from the lips of an eagle.
With a name like Pip Brown. I'm wondering why she didn't just go with that cool name. Maybe in New Zealand it's a bit more common. But Ladyhawke, which I assume is a reference to the Matthew Broderick and Michelle Pffeifer movie from the 80's really fits because if a hawk is flying over your head, turned into a lady and started singing with a guitar and feathered hair, this surely would be her.
“My stepfather is a jazz drummer and my mum is a singer, so I was introduced to music very young,” she says. “At around 14 I got frustrated with only playing drums and taught myself the guitar, bass and synth."
At 16 she joined a band.....
“But on our return to New Zealand, we started having personal differences in the band. A big tour was booked for Australia but literally two days before our flight to Australia, our singer decided to quit and our drummer followed suit."
Until....
“I was devastated, bitter and angry. So in a fit of impulsive spontaneity I thought 'f**k it, I’m getting on that damn plane with or without my band' and I did.
“When I arrived in Melbourne I was homeless, penniless and band-less. I started Ladyhawke out of a desire to do my own project where I could completely express myself in any way I wanted without having to answer to bandmates."
So there you have it, she currently is releasing her self titled debut on Sept. 30th and nowadays plays guitar with the band Teenager.
