After stepping away from music for a long time post-Lush, Miki Berenyi has been making up for lost time. There was the short-lived Lush reunion in 2015, followed by new music with Piroshka in the form of two albums – Brickbat in 2019 and Love Drips and Gathers in 2021. But since embarking on book tours for her 2022 memoir Fingers Crossed, she’s begun playing gigs as Miki Berenyi Trio.

It began as a stripped down version of the touring Piroshka lineup with Berenyi, husband Kevin ‘Moose’ McKillop on guitar, and Oliver Cherer, who replaced Modern English’s Mick Conroy on bass in Piroshka when the latter moved to the US. For their forthcoming US tour, however, Conroy is back in the lineup as McKillop is opting to stay home. Sets will consist of both Lush and Piroshka material, as well as new songs that will be part of a MB3 album due out later this year.

The first bit of music under the new name is a new version of Split‘s opening track. It sounds very much like the original, albeit with more live-off-the-floor sound – t hey’ve been playing it live, after all – and that’s no bad thing.