PETE - GUITAR
Pete started playing guitar at the age of 15 in 1990. He graduated from the Access To Music course in 1997, walking away with the second highest grade in the country. His guitar playing at that time was to a very high level; two of the tutors already had Pete standing in for the regular guitarists in their own gigging bands. One of these bands, Young Guns (a 70s & 80s party band) was to eventually offer him a full time lead guitarist position. The other band was Till U Drop, a soul act that played numerous high energy corporate events.
At one of these gigs was American rapper Ralph Dog who hired Pete to record his next album Lifes a Bytch, which had a worldwide release in 2000.
In 1999 Pete joined the 80s Experience, an eighties tribute band managed by Scott Mackenzie. This band has worked throughout the UK, Ireland, France and the Middle East and as such, has gained a very highly regarded reputation. He left this group in 2010 after he felt like he'd lived the worst decade twice!
During the day Pete teaches at four Leicestershire schools and colleges. He has also contributed to various musical courses for students at De Montfort University, Leicester.
Like most other guitarists Pete is always chasing that dream tone and has worked with Matamp in 2006, helping them add (and sometimes remove) features found in their existing range of guitar amplifiers.