Music For Walking - Pete Bones

This month we welcome Pete Bones - a real bastien of underground electronic music. We now have our own website page where you can donate to Talk Club. www.speakupanddance.com/music-for-walking If this resonates, you can donate as little as £1 towards Talk Club - all funds from this project go directly to the charity. Pete Bones’ real love affair with music began after being expelled from school aged 15. With way too much time on his hands, he started a band with 2 close friends. Pete taught himself guitar and drums and they hit the road. After a trip to Ibiza, and the first whisperings of ecstasy and acid house, he decided that electronic music was the future, and traded his drum kit for a pair of technics turntables. After playing numerous illegal parties around the South East of England he gained his first residency in 1990 at the Hand & Spear in Surrey, and soon turned it into one of the biggest mid-week nights in the UK. Pete's DJ career took off quickly and it wasn't long before he was guesting all over Europe. In '92 he launched Ugly Bug records. It was an instant hit, especially with radio DJs Pete Tong and Judge Jules. Pete became a regular guest on Kiss 100fm, and his first release as his main recording alias, The Shaker, - ‘Just Lick It’, became the club hit of the year. The remix work came flooding in, from labels such as London, FFRR, Hooj, Ore, Fade, and Perfecto. His remix of Zee’s Dreamtime was essential new tune on Pete Tong’s BBC Radio1 show, and finally in ’96 after a 3 way struggle between A&M, XL, and Manifesto, Pete signed to XL Recording as The Shaker. Bones also signed with the US DJ agency AM Only and started gigging across the USA, and secured residencies at the much revered Firestone and Simon’s clubs in FL’. For most, this would have been the peak of an outstanding career, but Pete was once again yearning for the underground. Despite the massive chart success, Pete reinvented his sound and launched a new label: Red Ant Records; a deeper darker take on Ugly Bug. Over 175 releases later, Red Ant is going from strength to strength. Cutting edge underground dance music. Pete Bones may not take himself too seriously, his music however, is another story. When Covid hit and we were all confined inside, Bones had the idea of putting a virtual band together and producing the indie dance album he’d always been thinking about doing. One album soon became 3; The Stones Of Convention were born, and still play together once or twice a year when the time can be found.Pete had started his now infamous Fear & Loathing parties and had been asked to host one in Brighton UK. It was a huge success and he immediately fell in love with the place, soon becoming an official resident. He found a permanent venue for F&L at Brighton Electric and the party will now sell out weeks in advance. Whilst still enjoying the thrill of a new gig in a new town, as a DJ there’s nothing better than getting to know your own crowd, and dropping new tunes each week. Viva Fear & Loathing!