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Acoustic indiepop, poetry, found sound, edgelands, and all the wistful

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The Barge: a haven for the outsiders

7 August 2017by Pete Green Leave a comment

The unique Grimsby pub that defined me is under threat of closure because of a cinema. This 2010 blogpost explains why it must be saved

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Sheffield Almanac: a poem of love and regeneration

19 June 2017by Pete Green 3 Comments

Some reflections on the little miracles of how and why my debut poetry pamphlet came into the world this month

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Ten years of sparkly

17 May 2017by Pete Green 2 Comments

Ten brilliant sparkly things that have happened in the ten years since Atomic Beat Records released my first solo single in May 2007

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Putting the word out

8 March 2017by Pete Green Leave a comment

A little round-up of my new stuff published and forthcoming performances

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The rise and fall of Sheffield music (or how the Arctic Monkeys ruined everything)

2 February 2017by Pete Green Leave a comment

OK, they didn’t ruin everything. But after synthpop, Jarvis, and Alex’s mic drop, where does the city go next?

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Close-up of volume and gain dials on a Marshall amplifier

There’s a kind of hush

3 October 2016by Pete Green Leave a comment

Quietness today is a hand-drawn DIY gig flyer on a wall of Carling Academy listings expensively printed on matt laminate card. Play me one more chorus of idiot landfill indie, its sound and fury signifying nothing, and I’ll choose silence.

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July was some month (part 2: the Viking thunderclap)

9 September 2016by Pete Green Leave a comment

I knew we were on to something special when the Viking thunderclap started up. The rest of the time – those sad, negligible 362 days of the year when we’re […]

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July was some month (part 1)

30 August 2016by Pete Green 1 Comment

In which the poet looks back with some glee at the first four of that month’s live performances

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The sounds of places, and the road to Firsby station

20 July 2016by Pete Green 2 Comments

It is 16 May 2016, a Monday afternoon. I am in a field in a remote part of rural Lincolnshire, just behind a potato warehouse, juggling an array of digital […]

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Obligatory post about Leicester City and my new album

4 May 2016by Pete Green Leave a comment

As long-time followers of my music will know, the football has found its way in here and there. Most obviously there’s The Ballad of Phil Jevons – my tribute to […]

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Sheffield Almanac

My debut poetry pamphlet is out now!

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We’re Never Going Home

My second album, released in 2016

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  • Read about how I recorded part of it behind a Lincolnshire potato warehouse!
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