Pete will be joined by Ian Button (Go Kart Mozart, Death in Vegas) and Neil Scott (Denim, Summerhill, Everything But the Girl) to play a selection from his new record Unsent Letters (Home Recordings 1984-2024). It’s the weird cousin to songs on half a lifetime of albums. It has been living in the basement and is now emerging, blinking into the daylight. And Ian, Neil and Pete with some Casios, guitars and drum machines will be there to help it out.

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Pete:  Unsent Letters contains a selection of songs that, like all my songs, started at home, but these stayed at home, tucked away at the back of analogue and digital drawers, coins lost down the back of the sofa. All musicians know that there is always the danger that, when you are making songs to formally release, you can end up aiming at that often-unhelpful place called ‘perfection’. These songs arrived before that process could begin. I think there is an openness, vulnerability and unguardedness here that I really like. I have to say I’m rather proud of these unsent letters. 

Pete Astor led Creation Records’ groups The Loft and The Weather Prophets, writing songs and releasing records that helped define the sound of the label and the emerging Indie genre. He has gone on to a lengthy solo career since then; writing, recording and releasing music on a range of labels including Matador, Heavenly, Warp, EMI and Fortuna Pop. He is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Westminster. As well as touring extensively, he also makes records with David Sheppard as Ellis Island Sound and releases his spoken word pop as The Attendant. Since 2017, Astor has been signed to the estimable Tapete Records, home to Robert Forster, Lloyd Cole and Comet Gain among many excellent others.