Peter Cat is the musical alias of Glasgow-based songwriter and performer Graham Gillespie, NOW FULLY EXPANDED INTO A FOUR-PIECE theatrical art-rock project.
Peter Cat’s is a sound that crackles with intent – sitting somewhere between Frank Zappa’s caustic playfulness, King Crimson’s jazz-inflected heaviness, and the spoken-word tension of Black Country, New Road. Groovy yet apocalyptic, a Peter Cat song is like a short film in under four minutes – careening through guilt, shame, defiance and transcendence.
Peter Cat’s 2020 debut The Saccharine Underground was released on vinyl by MoFi Records and distributed via Last Night From Glasgow, followed by 2022’s The Magus EP—home to minor cult hit “Melon Dating Simulator!!”.
Now signed to Trapped Animal Records and with his second full-length LP, Starchamber, out now, Peter Cat is ready to bring their warped vision to a wider audience.
“Groovy and eclectic art-pop…as influenced by the Beatles and Scott Walker as King Crimson and the KLF” – Bandcamp ‘New & Notable’
“A cocktail of outsider pop acts like Neil Hannon, Franz Ferdinand, Pulp, Sparks and Hamish Hawk all spring to mind, making for an intricate, theatrical cross-genre exploration that regularly delights” – The Skinny
“Cosmic, lascvicious and confident…Peter Cat f*ck” – SNACK Magazine