Malcolm Peet ~ Guitar, Mandolin & Dobro

Like many musicians of my age (very late teens or old git…it’s up to you!) I have a
long and chequered history so the following are the bits that I hope will be of
interest.

I came to London in the early ‘70’s as half of a duo called Almeida, with Mike Khan.
We were lucky enough to have been commissioned by the BBC and ITV to write and
perform the title and incidental music for a number of television plays. We even had
a small acting and singing role in an episode of ‘Softly Softly’

While doing this work I lived and played at ‘The Kings Head’ in Upper Street,
Islington which was London’s first ever ‘theatre pub’. An exciting time.

Our stay led to other projects including a tour with our musical ‘The Rock Electric
Circus’ which we funded with an arts council grant. A recording contract with EMI
also followed.

We recorded a single at Abbey Road studios. Our engineer was Alan Parsons who
had just finished engineering ‘Dark side of the moon’ for Pink Floyd. What a come
down we must have been! We were also lucky enough to have the services of an acquaintance of ours, Brian Eno from Roxy Music on synth. The single did well in
S. Africa but as often happens we didn't receive a penny.

Time for a change. In the mid ‘70’s I formed a band with David Blosse called ‘Pekoe Orange’ which was very successful on the London club/pub circuit and colleges etc. Although popular the right record deal could not be had and the band eventually
broke up after a tour of Holland.

During this time I was asked to play on various projects including some slide guitar
for a Maddy Prior (Steeleye Span) album and a demo for a Richard Digance album
with Doug Mortar plus Rick and Nigel from Steeleye.

Recent years have seen me in various rock and country bands and providing the
guitar and mandolin playing for a number of singer/songwriters from England and
America.

I first met Dash in 2003 when we played in a casual band at a party and I was
immediately impressed with his voice and strong guitar style and suggested that
we work on some songs together. We started rehearsing on a serious level in
January 2005, striving to give a new interpretation to some of our favourite songs
and tunes by using an array of stringed instruments to complement Dash’s voice
and guitar.

Malcolm