7/3/2023 0 Comments Plush bandLike I thought, Ace Frehley really was the absolute coolest. “When my dad got me into bands like the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Kiss, and Black Sabbath, I was just hooked on guitar. She began playing the guitar when she was five years old. Her father plays guitar and owns a music shop. Coming from a family with a musical background. And it all just worked out.”īella has a passion for rock. When I saw it, I thought there’s nothing to lose from at least just reaching out and sending my information and an audition video. I’ve been a huge fan of Halestorm since I was like ten. “That’s how I found out about them, actually. That post caught the eye of Berklee College of Music freshman Bella Perron. As fate would have it, one of Moriah’s biggest influences and supporters, Lzzy Hale of Halestorm, saw the ad and reposted it on her platforms. Moriah’s management company, Surface Management, placed an ad on social media. So, a lead guitar player was all that was needed. Moriah shared, “We had a little jam session together-me, Brooke and Ashley, at Brooke’s house, and it just felt right. They added a friend of Brooke’s, Ashley Suppa-who has been dubbed the “female version of Cliff Burton”-as their bass player. I had met Brooke, our drummer, through Instagram and found out that she only lived like forty minutes away from me, and I was like, ‘Well if that isn’t fate, I don’t know what is.’ The two of us had jammed a little bit and were ready to find some other players.” And boom, the idea of an all-female band came up,” says Moriah. I wanted to be a part of a cohesive band where we all work together. “I’ve always, always wanted to be a part of a band, not just Moriah Formica or the Moriah Formica band. That left Moriah with the desire to create an all-female rock band. That performance garnered 7M views across both of their social media platforms. One of those covers was “Barracuda” by Heart, performed on social media by Moriah and drummer Brooke Colucci. Several of them have received millions of views. Moriah is remembered as the girl who got all four judges to turn their chairs with her stunning cover of Heart’s “Crazy On You.” The judges of the competition, Miley Cyrus and Adam Levine, openly expressed their fascination and expectations with Moriah joining Team Miley.ĭuring the pandemic, Moriah has been busy on social media taking cover requests from fans and releasing those covers on her platforms. The band’s frontwoman, Moriah Formica, was a contestant at NBC’s hit reality show, The Voice, during Season 13 when she was sixteen. Plush consists of Moriah Formica on vocals and guitar, Brooke Colucci on drums, Ashley Suppa on bass, and lead guitarist, Bella Perron. Don’t let their ages fool you-they are a group on a mission to take an all-female rock band to the forefront of the genre. Plush is a new all-female rock band from New York, with members all below the age of twenty-one. We thought London would host some of the best venues in the world and being London we imagined the competition to be enormous and therefore the standard of bands to be exceptional … Well, let’s just say South Africa competes with the best in the world.As seen in Guitar Girl Magazine Issue 15 – Spring 2021 – Electrified! “In terms of the venue standard and the other bands that we saw, it was surprisingly average. However, London was not all that Plush imagined. “We really didn’t expect to see so many people coming out to see us play …” “It was great in terms of the support,” says Eliot. The trio has recently returned from a sell-out tour of the UK, their first foray into the international market. It was all a matter of timing … besides, Rory Eliot and The Reason is a mouthful.” “Plush was the inevitable choice - the long, almost lost dream. “It’s all been a process since Chas died,” says Eliot. The band, which started out as Plush, included Chas Smit, who was killed outside Crowded House in 2005. Branded Rory Eliot and the Reason for the better part of 2007, lead guitarist and singer Rory Eliot, bass player Emelio Gassibe and drummer Ben Peters are about to launch their comeback as Plush.
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