Pete G's musical interest started when he was about 2-3 years old sitting in his high chair and hammering the piano for hours on end. This progressed to proper piano lessons when he was 5 or 6. "I remember the house - a dark old one with loads of ivy - but not my teacher (except that she was old too!).

About a year later he moved from Worthing to Hertfordshire. An electronic organ eventually replaced the piano and the lessons continued. At that time he was well into computers so he never practiced his pieces. However, parents supported lessons for a number of years with various teachers, including the keyboard player John Gosling from the Kinks.

A little later, his parents changed the organ for two keyboards to enable him to play at school. Along with some pals including Jon Rolls, Debbie Hann, Alex (something?) and Gabrielle Simmons they played a cover of Hello, and composed their own track when they left middle school.

The addition of a 4-track tape deck enabled him to start writing (if you can call it that now). A number of basic songs were written and recorded with John Chillingworth (his sister's boyfriend at that time). An influence from Danny Bailon, who used to put solos (guitar) down for him, started him playing guitar when he gave him his. With the move to upper school a new band was formed with Jon Rolls (on Bass again), Alistair Peck taking over keyboards, Matthew Brooks on drums and Pete taking the guitar - "can't remember who sang". Again a couple of school perfromances of Money for Nothing and House of the Rising Sun went down well.

At about 14 Pete moved to Sheffield. Continuing with his musical interests, he joined up with Nik Barker and put a few guitar based tracks down. A year later, he did a few bits and pieces with Russell Bark and his then current band. Over the last couple of years at school he joined up with Martin Kelsey and Richard Webb to write a few (very) guitar orientated tracks - must have been that Metallica/Xentrix etc influence!

Finally he settled for writing his own tracks (mainly piano based ballads), recording guitars and keyboards himself, and programming sequenced bass and drums. Jon Crowther helped by writing lyrics and recording vocal tracks. Ainsley Stones joined him for the guitars in two of the tracks. He went for a guitar audition with a band called One Last Child and never heard from them again ("maybe I wasn't any good!").

He then met up with Jerome Perks, and formed the melodic hard rock band Tikaboo Peak. This was a first step into the world of gigging. They played a couple of the rock events - The Gods 99 and 2 Phoenix Rising events - and even came 3rd from 150 bands in a Battle Of The Bands competition. In August 2000 they released a 12 track CD - Paranoid Mind - which was well received.

In Nov 2000 he split from Tikaboo Peak to pursue wider musical interests. He had a book of lyrics by Jon Crowther floating around, so grabbed it and his guitar and starded writing again. In addition, he decided to take singing lessons so that he was able to add the vocals himself.

Musical creativity started to flow again, with no fixed direction or style ("my mood dictates style"), each song being treated as an individual. By March 2001, 13 tracks had been written and recorded with a full mix of ballads, pop, boyband, mystical and american rock.

John Crowther is working with him on new material so who knows what that will bring!