Salena Godden and Peter Coyte bring us sexy ska-infused pop for the naughties courtesy of SaltPeter.

Peter and Salena were introduced to each other during a recording session with the cowgirl DJ Delruby, infamously the first thing Salena said to Peter was ‘Show me yours and I’ll show you mine.’ With his backlog of instrumentals, his vast library of beats and her suitcase of lyrics and poems it was the beginning of a unique merger, a collaboration of music and words.

Taking Salena’s spoken word and literary background, her recent collaborations with Ninja Tunes Coldcut and Peter’s soundscapes in performance and theatre plus his previous endeavours as the hip Shape Navigator there was no way this could be anything but a very unusual, very cerebral union, quite a quirky and moreish dish when cooked with their shared influences of rock, ska, breakbeat and dub.

Their sound is quintessentially British, mixing the likes of The Specials, Elastica, Ian Drury and the Blockheads with the likes of Eels or even Johnny Cash. More recent influences doff their hat towards the tales of London-life espoused by the likes of Lilly Allen and Plan B.

The album Hunger’s the Best Sauce is the belly-rumbling of the skint, the scam, and the walk of shame, the morning after the night before and the fear of the night after that.
The track, I’m Not Gay But…includes lyrics such as ‘two is company and three’s a crowd my man said if its two birds then its allowed.’ Fun and frolics all the way then.

Listen to some of their latest tracks and get tour dates at: www.myspace.com/wearesaltpeter