Hen Hoose x SNACK mag: Emerging Talent Spotlight

We’re back with our new monthly feature in collaboration with the Hen Hoose collective. A spotlight on emerging women and non-binary artists from across Scotland.

Each month, we’ll share a quickfire Q&A to get to know the artists behind the music (think Smash Hits, and your favourite 90s glossy music mags!). Short, sharp, and in their own words. Part interview, part personality check.

This month, we’re getting to know Peach Crumb – the Glasgow based musical alias of multidisciplicary artist Becca Murphy.

Think dreamy indie-folk and the kind of raw storytelling in lyrics that feels like reading someone’s diary after they’ve accidentally left it open on the kitchen table. Her debut EP You’re Too Pretty And Young To Be Sad was released in November of last year, exploring love, loss, healing, and what it means to find your way back to yourself.

With new music on the horizon and the release of her documentary exploring mental health A Conversation On Mental Health (watch here), we caught up with Peach Crumb to talk dream collaborators, crying at Clairo gigs, and why she’d like to see Live Nation in the bin.

Over to you, Peach Crumb!

Photo Credit: Laura Meek

Describe your sound in 3 words: Dreamy, Honest and Alternative.

For fans of: Warpaint, Clairo, Alice Phoebe Lou and Slow Pulp.

Tell us about yourself (short + sweet): Peach Crumb is an anagram of Becca Murphy (minus the “Y”) and I am a multidisciplinary artist based in Glasgow. Raised in rural Perthshire, I moved to Glasgow over a decade ago to study acting and have since worked across acting, music, film & TV, events and modelling.

WHAT’S HAPPENING (promo without being boring!)

What are you working on right now? Writing new music for Peach. I have a new single recorded at Green Door Studio with Ronan Fay – working on the game plan for that. Also collaborating and writing with different musicians of different genres for new projects to come in the future – one is electronic and exciting.

Documentary wise, I was absolutely blown away from the response (I knew people would relate but not so many). So I’m working away on next steps – I’m essentially angry and gonna do all I can to reform mental health in Scotland.

For those who don’t know, can you explain a little about the making of your documentary and the reasons for making it?

My whole life I’ve watched my mum endure mistreatment from mental health services in Scotland. In 2019 my mum’s mental health plummeted to levels not seen in a long time.

After a few attempts she was later sectioned at a psychiatric hospital. In their care my mum went through a lot of unfair treatment from staff and misdiagnosis from those who were supposed to be supporting her.

I was told by the head psychiatrist of this hospital that I had to accept that my mum was going to take her life. This same individual said this to a dad about his son who later did.

When receiving support, the head charge nurse dismissed my mum’s struggles with self harm and told her she needed to make a better effort with mindfulness, speaking down to her like a child. I was present for this meeting and it was difficult to watch.

Another member of staff involved in her care told her she needed to apologise to the emergency services and to her family for wasting their time after one of her attempts.

During her time at another psychiatric hospital, my mum also experienced staff members, those responsible for the care of vulnerable people, shouting abuse down the hall at her about her weight.

This is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the blatant mistreatment my mum experienced, and I’m sure sadly others.

I obviously couldn’t stand by and watch anymore. I had been gathering evidence, documenting incidents and eventually took everything to the board. After going back and forth with them for 3 years, I was met mostly with excuses, and received little to no apology or support for the way my mum had been treated.

Around this time I attended some therapy provided by the NHS, not my first time in therapy, nor my last! I went seeking support and was plainly told by my counsellor that I was ‘Too Pretty And Young To Be Sad’. He later came into my workplace and said ‘ah it’s you! I recognise you because of your face’… it was actually unbelievable.

I felt helpless, I had tried to fight for my mum and I tried to fight for myself, both felt like fruitless acts. Both instances though they differ in degree of severity, dismissed the person seeking help.

So naturally, I decided to put that anger and pain into my art and that is why we have an EP, You’re Too Pretty And Young To be Sad ;), and my documentary, A Conversation On Mental Health, today.

It’s currently available to watch on your YouTube channel. Are there any plans for screenings?

I am currently looking into festivals and asking if anyone around Scotland has a place to screen ideally for free to reach out as it’d be great to screen this everywhere. I’ve posted the doc on YouTube so it is available to all, l but to get a further reach would be great.

What’s coming up next for you? (releases / gigs / plans) Upcoming show is supporting JUNK at the Hug and Pint on the 16th July.

A recent highlight moment: Played our first show in london last week (30/04/26) supporting Cat Clyde and of course releasing my EP last year :’)

The Taste Test

What are you listening to on repeat just now? Broadcast – Tender Buttons, Dove Ellis – Blizzard and Operelly – Handwriting Practice no.1

A song you wish you’d written: In My House – Theo Bleak

First song that made you want to make music: Japanese House – Saw You in a Dream and, honestly, Panic! at The Disco’s album – A Fever You Can’t Sweat out hahaha and Clairo <3

Photo Credit: Laura Meek

Quick Fire!

Tea or coffee? Coffee !!!!

Night out or cosy night in? Cosy night in.

Go-to snack in the studio? Hashbrowns and lots of liquids (kombucha, water, peppermint tea, iced coffee and a can of 1901).

Dream collaborator (alive or dead): Clairo !!!

Biggest ick in the music industry: Big industry men who don’t see how women are slaying the game right now. Out of touch much?

Photo Credit: Mirrin Hegharty

What’s your delusional long-term goal? To live off my art <3

Tell us something we don’t know about you – the more weird the better! I am a test tube baby!

One thing you’d like to see change in the music industry: Artists making money and Live Nation in the bin.

What’s your most chaotic gig experience? When I was like 16 I went to the Barrowlands for the first time and saw HIM (obsessed with Ville Valo) I got the setlist and this older lady barged me into the barrier and I broke my rib and lost the set list </3

Have you ever cried over a song (yours or someone else’s)? When I saw Clairo in Paris for the first time she played Alewife and love the song but for some reason truly struck a chord and I greeted. When I got home I broke up with my abusive ex finally!! So thank you Clairo – sorry if tmi lol

What would your 16-year-old self think of you now? I think she’d be shook and very proud. I was thinking about this a lot when I played London for the first time. So cool, very pinch me moment.