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General Info

  • Genre: Alternative / Pop Punk / Rock

    Location DURHAM, Connecticut, US

    Profile Views: 20841

    Last Login: 4/21/2012

    Member Since 4/29/2009

    Website www.ronsutfin.com

    Record Label Thin Man Music

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Click this link to download us off iTunes. ...... New Haven, Connecticut based band The Peacock Flounders was formed by long time musical collaborators Ron Sutfin and Kerry Miller in 2003. Together with guitarist Peter Krol and Bassist Sal Paradise the band is an outlet for Ron and Kerry’s original songs. They bring their experience from previous New Haven bands Valley of Kings, Miracle Legion, Cameraface, Mad Haleen, The Swaggerts and F’n Colleen to meld a powerful rock sound with a pop sensibility. The Peacock Flounders’ first Connecticut shows have brought rave reviews from audiences, with comparisons to The Hoodoo Gurus and Big Star. Their influences include The Replacements, Psychedelic Furs, Alex Chilton, Foo Fighters, Sex Pistols, Gun Club, Iggy Pop, The Damned, and Guided by Voices. Appearances at New Haven’s International Festival of Arts and Ideas, the world famous New Haven nightclub Toad’s Place, and the City Wide Open Studios at Bridgeport’s Nest Art Gallery along with regular appearances at New Haven’s Café Nine, have audiences coming back for more. Their CD/Album “Hello Beautiful” was released on June 13th 2008 with some great reviews from the press. New Haven Register Entertainment Editor Pat Ferrucci said, “the 10 tune effort that is ‘Hello Beautiful’, is a stellar record from the New Haven quartet… dense guitar driven, rootsy…very good songwriting from scene veterans Miller and Sutfin …Simply put. ‘Hello Beautiful’ is exactly what you’d expect from the quartet if you’ve ever seen them live, and that’s a big compliment”. New Haven Advocate, Mike Sembos: “Ten tracks of solid power…There’s plenty of substance and creativity” New Haven, Connecticut based band The Peacock Flounders was formed by long time musical collaborators Ron Sutfin and Kerry Miller in 2003. Together with guitarist Peter Krol and Bassist Sal Paradise the band is an outlet for Ron and Kerry’s original songs. They bring their experience from previous New Haven bands Valley of Kings, Miracle Legion, Cameraface, Mad Haleen, The Swaggerts and F’n Colleen to meld a powerful rock sound with a pop sensibility. The Peacock Flounders’ first Connecticut shows have brought rave reviews from audiences, with comparisons to The Hoodoo Gurus and Big Star. Their influences include The Replacements, Psychedelic Furs, Alex Chilton, Foo Fighters, Sex Pistols, Gun Club, Iggy Pop, The Damned, and Guided by Voices. Appearances at New Haven’s International Festival of Arts and Ideas, the world famous New Haven nightclub Toad’s Place, and the City Wide Open Studios at Bridgeport’s Nest Art Gallery along with regular appearances at New Haven’s Café Nine, have audiences coming back for more. Their CD/Album “Hello Beautiful” was released on June 13th 2008 with some great reviews from the press. New Haven Register Entertainment Editor Pat Ferrucci said, “the 10 tune effort that is ‘Hello Beautiful’, is a stellar record from the New Haven quartet… dense guitar driven, rootsy…very good songwriting from scene veterans Miller and Sutfin …Simply put. ‘Hello Beautiful’ is exactly what you’d expect from the quartet if you’ve ever seen them live, and that’s a big compliment”. New Haven Advocate, Mike Sembos: “Ten tracks of solid power…There’s plenty of substance and creativity” ....Created with ..mySpace Profile Editor....

  • Members

    Kerry Miller, Sal Paradise, Peter Krol, Ron Sutfin .................. ......

  • Influences

    Valley of Kings, Cameraface, Miracle Legion, Sex Pistols, New Order, Foo Fighters, Guided By Voices, Solin, Crazy Horse, Lost Generation, Malachi Crunch, DumDum Boys, Big Bad Johns, Echo and the Bunnymen, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Jesus and Mary Chain, Bill Laswell, Oz Fritz, Replacements, Gin Blossoms, Big Fat Combo, Hot Bodies, Saucers, Reducers, Sawtelles, Black Hole, Gun Club, Fleshtones, Subdueds, Whipping Boys, U2, Green Day, Tears for Fears, Crowded House, Finn Brothers, The Damned, Dead Boys, Cheetah Chrome, Motorhead, PJ Harvey, Bop Tweedie, The Lobsters, Dead Fingers, FU 69, Link Ray, October Days, The Edge, Larry Mullin, Bono, Adam Clayton, F'n Colleen, Psychedelic Furs, Alex Chilton, Box Tops, Kinks, Oasis, Violent Fems, Mitch Easter, Rem, Plasmatics, 999,

  • Sounds Like

    By Gary Vollano Independisc.com Issue 108 Aug. ‘08 “Hey Man, who says a leopard can’t change his spots / Appearances deceive / Change is internal baby / It’s what’s inside that counts.” The Peacock Flounders are balls to the wall rock of the ’78-‘82-‘84 Punk/New Wave era. They are so in-your-face you can’t help but love their mature, polished treatment of the punk/new wave movement/genre, especially that of the New Haven, CT scene, which has seen a huge swell of its notable reunions – Seems as though 30 years later, the mid-late ‘naught decade is not only representing that cultural upheaval on the major circuits, but also on the indie/underground/local circuits as well: long is the list of scenes stretching across the country where that era’s pioneers are once again rising to lead another wave into the next decade. The Peacock Flounders emerge as a new band in today’s landscape, made up of veterans from New Haven, CT’s legendary Ron’s Place circa ’78. With Kerry Miller & Ron Sutfin, formerly 2/3rds of Valley of Kings (and many, many, many various notable others), sharing vocals and trading instruments, we are treated to a large encompassing view of the way music was presented in the indie scene of the late 70’s. Attitude drips out of every song in ways in which Joy Division, The Smiths, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Ramones, The Dead Boys, and countless others (Pick up The Trouser Press Guide To New Wave Records [pub.1983], and you could easily throw the whole book in this sentence of comparisons) drenched your senses. In the late 70s these were the groundbreaking young upstart kids who loved music so much that 30 years later they are forming bands like The Peacock Flounders that rise up like a Punk/New Wave Phoenix and show that the love and compassion, for not only the music, but also for the culture of the generation, beckons and calls. This is a needed response to the reprocessed corporate money machine that has its crosshairs trained on the same demographic that broke the Beatles and more since the mid-60’s, only now with lesser quality than ever. Tweennyboppers are not new; they’ve just been dumbed down by a society which we have reluctantly become a part of. But back when, the tweenyboppers knew enough to understand that indie bands at the local level could, in music, define the passion of a generation even better than what the labels presented (See: Rhino’s collections like Nuggets & DIY as reference). Hello Beautiful is a testament to that and confirms IndepenDisc’s mission statement (which exonerates the opening disclaimer). Ranging from Hit single material (I Forget, In The Inside, Oh So Easy [dig the guitar work that closes out this one] and Still Be Mine) blended (and I mean blended on Chop & Grind) with such balls to the wall classics as Rage, Ride, and Sonic Believer, The Peacock Flounders pay homage to the Dead Boys via every three cord fuzztone ever launched off the vinyl of the day, played only as seasoned veterans can play it. They have taken the entirety of the genre to the next logical advanced level. Welcome back music that was born sloppy but has now refined that sloppiness into pure genius – The Peacock Flounders may have just broke Punk, again, 30 years later. Music with attitude this ferocious is too good to turn away from, again.

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