Album Notes

"Narrative wit and poetic soul-searching in abundance. Quietly charming."
- Iain Sheddon, The Weekend Australian

"Brett Winterford sings with a wistfulness that makes him eminently likeable.”
- Katrina Lobley, Sydney Morning Herald

"Heart Attack hums with life, both sprightly and seductive."
- Mike Gee, The Brag

“Proficient, infectious, acoustic popsters with intelligence,”
- Soph Gyles, The OzMusic Project

“Are they one of the big secrets about town or what? Amazing vocals, beautiful pop melodies, stunning.”
- Craig New, Revolver Magazine

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In 2003, songwriter Brett Winterford and his Sydney-based band ‘peregrine’ released an independent, self-financed rock/pop album called One Big Happy Heart Attack. The infectious melodies caught on at Australia’s national youth radio station, Triple J, and before they knew it the lads had national rotation, four star reviews in every major national newspaper, a distribution deal and a publishing deal, and several months of touring the country.

Winterford decided against fast cars and loose women and instead gave the band notice – 2004 would spend his royalties travelling the globe in search of inspiration for the next record.

He would meet flamenco dancers in Madrid, revolutionaries in Berlin, famous French designers in London and senile old drunks in Cork. He would perform in cities from Asia to the UK and Europe right through to New York. He would sail around the Greek Islands with a broken leg, get arrested for swimming nude in Rome’s Trevi Fountain, fall disastrously in and out of love… it was the stuff every songwriter dreams of.

In early 2005 he returned to Australia for a reunion with the band – primarily to prepare material for a new album. After several months of pre-production demos and live recordings at Sydney’s premier music club, ‘The Basement’, songs written in bus shelters and hostel rooms have now gone into full-scale production. The band has tracked the album at Sydney’s famous Studios 301 with producer Daniel Denholm (The Cruel Sea, The Whitlams) at the helm, and mastered at Sterling Sound Studios in New York by Leon Zervis (INXS, Beastie Boys, Ben Folds, Avril Lavigne, Maroon 5).

Expect 2008 to be the year peregrine launch a new benchmark for innovative rock/pop.