Pete MacLeod

Hello, I'm Pete, a singer/songwriter from a town called Coatbridge, just outside of Glasgow, Scotland. I recently came back home from a stint in L.A. and although I liked it in the U.S. I plan to travel everywhere and pretty much anywhere to promote my music with and without a band. I'm Looking forward to the future! You can have a wee read about me on my website if you want and are interested here (www.petemacleod.net). I have recently started a new band called Pete MacLEOd & The Cancerian's. Looking forward to playing my songs live with the guy's. I also perform acoustic set's solo and with Bonehead (from Oasis). He aswell as everyone else I play my songs with are great people. Here is a wee biog about my band. It's an interesting read.Upon his return from America's West Coast, Scottish singer/songwriter Pete MacLeod, begin's to perform and record in the UK's music circuit. Releasing the single "Rolling Stone", (with proceeds going to Cancer Research UK) the song is a dedication to Pete's Father who recently became ill with cancer. The record is musically optimistic and uplifting and tell's the story of Pete's life so far. After performing a solo acoustic show at Glasgow's King Tut's, Pete realised he had some musician friends gathering around him for general support. Little did Pete know at the time that it was all beginning to fit into a fateful line-up.
"I started to acknowledge that I had a few friend's around me when I came back from the Los Angeles. Fergy, bass player (Cancerian), guitarist Kev Donnelly (Cancerian) and guitarist Pedro (Cancerian). All three musician's were in previous band's with me at different times in the past. Not knowing if I was going to form a band again, I allowed things to develop naturally and let time go on to see if this was indeed the right path for me." The three musician's were keen to be involved musically again with Pete but he wasn't convinced just yet if that was the right thing for him to do, as it's a tried and tested road he has been on before. The band went into the rehearsal studios listening to Pete's song's and performing it by ear with several different drummers to see how thing's felt. Thing's weren't working out for various reasons and Pete had accepted that this was to be the way fate had turned out, until he had heard of young drummer and local musician, Martin Johnston's talent's. After a chat on the phone with the conversation ending on asking Martin what his star sign was and Martin replying "Cancerian, why?", Pete began to realize that this was to be fate's handling in some weird way.
The band went into rehearsals in Glasgow and played Pete's songs with the outcome being very impressive. After a few weeks of rehearsals Pete wondered if he should name the band or not. "I'm a Leo, so I thought about calling the band Leo and The Cancerian's but decided not to risk being sued by Leo Sayer and I left it for a few day's. Then I looked at it after I typed it into my iPhone and noticed that the star sign LEO was already in my name!" Pete MacLEOd & The Cancerian's. Pete named his previous band thestar69. He got a tattoo on his arm when he was 22 with the ying yang and the 6 and 9 in the circle instead of the dot's. Weirdly, 6 and 9 is the Cancerian's symbol. It just might be that some thing's are in the stars.
Pete MacLEOd & The Cancerian's will be a collective force of musician's performing Pete's songs on the live circuit.