Pete Green

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

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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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Singing in the wire

7 January 2014by Pete Green 3 Comments

Today I’ve been listening to ‘Wichita Lineman’ by Glen Campbell. It’s a song I’ve been aware of in the background for years. I’ve always liked that sudden upward jump in […]

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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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