2009 sees THePETEBOX pursuing his first solostudio project, more live and studio collaborations and as ever showcasing his art form at venues around the globe. He is also hard at work with the bands Swimming, and WeShowUpOnRadaR Pete has also been working on beats and sounds for the new Phil Kieran Album due for release on Cocoon in September 2009, other collaborations coming up include a single with the Hoxton Whores and Ben Fawce. This summer has again seen Pete feature on various High end festivals Latitude, Reading, Leeds and has recently played the World FreeRunning championships playing to over 10k people in London's Trafalgar square and of course smashing it as always. 2009 has already been an epic year for THePETEBOX with so much more still to come!
:: Radio1 Beatbox Champion ::
:: Channel4 Talent Award Winner ::
Not only is THePETEBOX one of the world's finest human beatboxers,he has spent the past year crafting a whole new approach to using his beatbox skills to create music. His live show is more that of a full bands and sees him creating fully crafted songs as well as demonstrating his world class beatbox skills. Creating each layer of his tracks live using a loop pedal THePETEBOX's shows lead the audience through a journey of real time music production which builds up and delivers a full frequency spectrum of sound, from deep bass, to high pitched trumpets, to multiple vocal harmonies - all made with his mouth! This pioneering endeavour led THePETEBOX to be announced a winner of the year's prestigious Channel 4Talent Awards, placing him alongside some of the countries' most promising young creatives. He has toured his show around Africa, Norway, France, Czech Republic and the UK and showcased at a host of festivals over the summer including Isle of White, Bestival, Creamfields, V Festival and Glastonbury.
THePETEBOX is a leading player on the beatboxing scene, making his mark after only a few months of gigging by winning the Radio 1 beatbox championships in 2005. Since then his breathtaking abilities to create, and re-create many styles of music such as hip-hop, drum'n'bass, jazz, house, garage and rock, has established him as an explosive live performer, having appeared at countless club nights and festivals around the UK and abroad over the past three years. His travels have led him to support legends such as Grandmaster Flash, Will Smith, Pendulum, The Automatic, Grooverider, Tim
Westwood, even The Human League and have seen him play alongside host of artists including New Young Pony Club, Mystery Jets, Sway, Ty, Skinnyman and Killa Kela. He can also been seen frequently wowing the crowds at some of the UK's most renowned club nights including UK Takeover, Chibuku, Firefly and Detonate and has completed tours with UK Hip Hop legends Foreign Beggars as their beatboxer.
His festival appearances to date include Glastonbury, V Festival, Bestival, Isle of White Festival, Creamfields, Urban Music Festival,Malawi's Lake of Stars Festival, Germany's Das Fest, UK's Eastern Haze and a tour of Africa in 2007 took him to three festivals in three African countries and led him to be featured on South African TV and Radio and the cover of Malawi's national arts supplement. He has made guest appearances on BBC Radio, BBC TV, Absolute and Kerrang national radio and has made jingles for Kerrang and Centreforce fm. In March 2007 he was flown over to Mexico to star in a TV advert for Telefonica Movistar Mobile Phones, which aired in Mexico, Panama and Guatemala! Hola! He is also sponsored by Shure microphones, Dephect clothing and Sole Heaven footwear Distribution Company.
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Hey dude, Hope the festival went well this weekend! Don't forget to check the teaser trailer for our new music vid! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MYCcSQgiAM peace
Hey PeteBox, I seriously seriously hope you read this!
I've been a massive fan of beatbox for a couple of years now so made sure I got me and my mates along to see you at Leeds. The moment at where you got everyone to stand up and come down the front was my best festival moment and your set totally made the festival!!