Ladies and gentlemen and all stations in between, I give you Picture Parlour.” These were the exact words shared by Courtney Love after she watched the swaggering, rock’n’roll four-piece perform at Brixton’s Windmill back in March. “We went to see the band’s sixth ever show and got OWNED” Love wrote. “There’s no more mojo to go around. It’s all gone. I know it when I hear and see it and MAN it’s been a minute.”
“It was honestly so weird,” says vocalist and guitarist Katherine Parlour about their turn of fate. We’re sitting in a central London boozer; Parlour and lead guitarist Ella Risi are opposite me, nursing two pints of Guinness – a situation not unlike the one they had been in when they first discovered Love was a fan. Notifications had been lighting up Parlour’s phone. “I saw Courtney Love’s name with a verified tick,” says Parlour, still in disbelief. She had thought it was a glitch at first. “I tried to say words, but they weren’t coming out,” she recalls, before re-enacting her conversation with Risi. “I was like Co- Co - Co!” she laughs. “It was amazing to have such an icon say nice things about us,” says Risi. “It was just surreal, especially at such an early stage.”
