The Pierces live in concert.
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The Pierces

12
critic concert reviews
folk

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

73
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Based on 
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Critic Consensus

Based on 12 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that The Pierces is rated as a watchable live performer, with decent shows overall. The Pierces concert reviews describe live shows and performances as genuine and varied.

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Latest Release

Christmas with the Pierces (A Live Performance) (9 December 2020)

Artist Info

Genre
folk
Origin
Birmingham, United States (2000 - present)
Bio
The Pierces, sisters Allison Pierce and Cat Pierce, are a pair of singer-songwriters based in New York City (by way of Birmingham, Alabama and Nashville). Former ballerinas turned songstresses, they released their self-titled debut in 2000 with Epic.
Has Performed With

Critic Concert Reviews

The Upcoming (UK)

September 26, 2014
60
%
The mature audience took a few songs to get warmed up but there was genuine depth of feeling in the atmosphere.

The Arts Desk (UK)

September 24, 2014
60
%
Their sugar-glazed glistening sound is filtered through all manner of electronic stabilisation and filtration devices which guarantee harmony and stability through their adrenaline-driven swoops and musical handbrake turns.

Music-News.com (UK)

June 15, 2014
80
%
They are debatably more popular here than their home USA; their blend of folk and pop with infusions of late 60’s psychedelia has struck a chord with many over here leading to a sold out show and a varied audience (Both in ages and genders.

The Guardian (UK)

June 11, 2014
80
%
This is one of my favourite songs that Allison has ever written, says Catherine Pierce, the blond, guitar-free half of this Los Angeles-based soft-rock duo.

Leftlion (UK)

June 9, 2011
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Nottingham, UK

The Guardian (UK)

February 1, 2011
80
%
The Coldplay bassist's endorsement transformed the Pierces from one of those quirky little groups that fill out major label rosters into a priority act.

Birmingham Mail (UK)

September 25, 2014
80
%
The strongest thing on offer at The Glee Club was probably the top shelf of spirits behind the bar and it was the audience who were under the influence of the sibling duo from the other Birming-’ham’ Alabama.

Past critic reviews published in

Birmingham Live (UK), Manchester Evening News (UK), GoldenPlec (Ireland), Music-News.com (UK), Backseat Mafia and more

Image Credit

Phil King [CC BY 2.0] via Wikimedia Commons