Miki Berenyi Trio

Miki Berenyi Trio, or MB3 for short, is named after its lead singer – a direct way to convey the presence of the former singer/co-guitarist of Lush, and one of the most instantly recognisable faces of the ‘90s - but the songwriting is entirely a three-way collaboration, as the album title describes: acknowledging the mother tongue of Miki’s father, Tripla is Hungarian for ‘triple’.

Miki and Moose, who came of age during the era of shoegaze and Britpop in Lush and the equally beloved Moose respectively, arrived here from Piroshka, which the couple formed in 2017 with drummer Justin Welch (ex-Elastica) and bassist Mick Conroy (Modern English). When Mick broke his arm during the tour that followed Piroshka’s second album Love Drips And Gathers, in stepped Oliver, Justin’s bandmate in Aircooled and an eclectic, roving solo artist, under aliases such as Dollboy and Gilroy Mere.
With Mick moving to America, and Justin busy with session work and live duties for The Jesus & Mary Chain and The Pretenders, Piroshka was put on ice, before the Miki-Moose-Oliver trio came together to play a handful of Lush songs whilst promoting her hugely acclaimed memoir “Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success”. A bout of songwriting sessions followed. “Nothing was planned,” Oliver recalls. “It was more of an organic process.”

“There is something very ‘grass roots ’about what we’re doing,” says Miki. “There’s no point following the ‘announce the album, then tour, then record the next album ’route – we just want to wring as much enjoyment out of this as we can, and hope that it resonates somewhere!”