After years on the road, touring around London and the Southern UK, it was time to play at home on The Isle of Purbeck again.

So the ideal venue in Purbeck to play is The Bankes Arms Purbeck Beer Festival in Studland. Playing to over 1,000 people at lunchtime is a great feeling. I played a lively set to get the audience going for the day, with the help of Paul Graham on sound.

As Clive Connor says “A Top quaint traditional pub, with great sea views and real ale from its own Isle of Purbeck Micro Brewery”

An opportunity to demonstrate the difference wood makes in sound and tone, by day and play the handmade acoustic guitars by night.

Saturday night is MUSIC night at the Gathering by Isle of Purbeck singer songwriter guitarist Pete Christie

Really looking forward to performing and exhibiting at the Wilderness Gathering. I’ve got a few interesting things planned for the audience at night and a walk through on handcrafted guitars, demonstrating the difference the choice of wood for the soundboard of an acoustic guitar makes on the sound and tone.

The ‘Gathering‘ is a 4 Day Event 18 – 21 August 2011
Wilderness Gathering, the original Bushcraft Show, is the premier festival of bushcraft, survival and primitive living skills.

The Gathering has become a social event and brings together families and friends, all those interested in Bushcraft and Wilderness living skills to enjoy a weekend of knowledge sharing in a relaxed and family friendly atmosphere

The event is held at Bush Farm Bison Centre Farm & Woodland Gardens Native American & Wildlife Gallery, West Knoyle, Wiltshire.

Derrin Nauendorf, Pete Christie, Alex Roberts pay tribute to Bob Dylan’s ‘I Shall Be Released’ for their encore song together

Live at Mr-Kyps in Poole, Dorset, UK 13.03.2011

The Concorde Club, is a members club in Eastleigh, Hampshire. Established in 1957 the club boasts an excellent restaurant, wine bar and hotel lodge. World famous for jazz.

The Club is a beautiful landscaped location and live music venue, nestled near Monks Brook with terrace and gardens near the airport…a really charming place to play music.

‘Moldy Fig’ has its origins in jazz and was a derogatory term used by ‘be bop/modernists’ for enthusiasts of New Orleans and earlier forms of jazz. The walls make interesting reading with pictures of the great jazz names who have appeared at the Concorde Club.

Posted on Facebook by Gareth Howells of Bemis
this is a Bemisian, a semi-Bemisian and a Pyrate singing an irish ballad in a beautiful theatre, having never played together before…..on an amazing night in November. Ahhhhh…..memories Pete Christie David Gallows Richard Leo of Bemis, sing ‘Black Velvet Band’

An evening at New Theatre Royal in Southsea with some of the best Folk Festival acts in the UK.

Also featured on this amazing bill was Paul from regular festival headliners The Men They Couldn’t Hang.  Hobo Jones and The Junkyard Dogs, whose tongue-in-cheek comedy, Rock’n’Roll Skiffle and Skunk Rock are sure fire hits with any audience.

Video by KrilaSounds

Sun 21 November

booking agent / music promoter

UK Roots Movement

http://www.ukrootsmovement.com

Release date         2010

About                     Freedom sounds like this…

Description         We are a non-profit promotional co-operative run by a collective of international musicians touring extensively and releasing new acoustic roots music within the UK.

In the past decade the music industry has been turned upside down and is barely recognisable as its former incarnation. Acts are signed and dropped on a whim as mainstream trends are set and quickly become outmoded. Chart successes invariably come from a will to create celebrity rather than a desire to share and celebrate creativity.

This industry has a stranglehold on the media that we once referred to for the latest sounds. So a parallel music industry is born through the Internet and on the streets: Anyone keen to take their music on the road can record, market, and distribute from their living room.

Coupled with the recent boom in live audiences, any motivated act can go out and make a success of their art.People dont want to be told what is good – They want to seek it out.

There is an unbelievable wealth of high quality music out there on the streets of the UK. There is also a huge audience on the lookout for an alternative to the mainstream.

UK Roots Movement provides a truly independent alternative.

Rob did a great job on my album ‘Frank’.

I would recommend his photography

Album 'Frank' insert photography by Robert Whetton

MySpace has been part of my music promotion since 2006, now I find myself wondering what to do with my MySpace profile.

MySpace Member Since 01/10/2006

Artist Dashboard

• 27,353 profile views

• 2,155 total friends

• 13,088 total song plays

November 18th, 2010: MySpace’s Facebook Mashup

Here is a blog by Ross Dunn

‘MySpace’s Rise and Fall – A Timeline of Highs and Lows‘

NOW WHAT?