Friday 31 December 2010

2010 for me, THePETEBOX, a recap of shows:


Jan - Studio
Feb - Tour with Jay Sean
March/April - Tour with Diversity
May - Foreign Begz Spain shows, Monaco GP, filmed Odd One In TV show
June - Rockness, first skydive, more foreign Begz shows, Uni summer balls
July - Latitude, YNot fest, Beatpatrol Austria, Aiya Napa
Aug - Skydiving course and show at Voss dropzone in Norway, V fest, Reading fest, Creamfields, Thorpe park shows with beat the queue passes!
Sept - Bestival, Manchester, Leeds, Chester, Worcester, Oxford freshers shows
Oct - UK and European tour with my band with Carl Barat
Nov - Finish tour, Abu Dhabi Grand prix, start Xmas Diversity tour
Dec - Xmas Diversity tour, Christmas, BED!

Here's to everyone I met, worked with, partied with, performed to, travelled with, jumped with, lived with, loved with ;) and the rest... much love to you all and let's keep it rollin!
Petebox
x

Monday 27 December 2010

The first 4 jumps of my AFF Skydiving course!

I went to do my AFF skydiving course at the Voss dropzone in Norway last August.
I was invited to play a show in return for the course and ended up playing in a valley where base jumpers were landing... it was incredible!
Here's the video of me doing the first 4 out of the 7 jumps you need to complete the course. Unfortunately bad weather meant I had to stop, but I completed the rest a month later at Langer in the UK, the video of my last 3 will come soon... meanwhile, check out me FLYING!!

Sunday 26 December 2010

Merry Christmas from my band!

Here's my band SWIMMInG's cover of the amazing Christmas song In Dulci Jubilo.
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Friday 24 December 2010

Here's an acoustic version of my bands single ‘Sun in the Island’ recorded in a forest in the snow!

Filmed and edited by Simon Ellis.

A short film that documents the day Swimming performed a unique acoustic version of Sun In The Island in the Skyspace installation found at the heart of Kielder Forest, Northumberland.

It is recorded by sonic artist Dallas Simpson using tiny microphones in his ears (binaural recording) that is designed to be listened back on headphones.
This will transport you to the exact placement of Dallas, moving around the space and the sound in this magical environment.

www.swimmingband.com
www.dallassimpson.com
www.bubtowers.com

Thursday 23 December 2010

Behind the scenes with the Diversitoys!

Hey all, here's a collection of footage I took on the Spring Diversitoys tour from this year... as you can see, there is some play with all the hard work!

Thursday 16 December 2010

Some recent pics!

So we're now in Sheffield... only a handful of shows to go!
The past few days have been pretty crazy - amazing crowds in Glasgow, Birmingham... i can hardly remember further back than that, but each show has been an awesome experience for us all, many thanks!
Here's some pics of stuff we've been doing since, starting with a Merry Christmas pic from me and Perri


We had some fun bowling and playing crazy golf for Perri's birthday





And here's me and Aidan before the show in Glasgow!


Totally loving this tour as you can see... ace people, ace shows and a whole load of fun!

Friday 10 December 2010

Liverpool Echo Arena... massive!

Liverpool Echo Arena tonight, looks massive!

Tuesday 7 December 2010

GoKarting in the ice... who will win..?

Meeeeeeeeeee!
We all went GoKarting yesterday, was basically an ice rink!! Had an awesome time, here's the crew!


I'm writing this backstage at the show at Cardiff Arena tonight - packed out crowd, looking awesome!

Here's a pic of myself and the action toys - Ninja and Joe the Methods of Movement breakers, Holly Harrison the contortionist and Chloe Bruce the awesome martial artist supremo at the venue before the show.


Sunday 5 December 2010

THePETEBOX Newsletter December 2010

Hello folks!

So since my crazy summer of festival fun (and a big thankyou to all who were there for my shows to make em so ace) I have been doing the rounds at fresher’s events to herald a new year of the uk’s finest academic brains embarking on their quest for brain food by starting university.
I went to Leeds, Manchester, Bristol, Oxford, Chester, Brighton and London to party with the fresher’s and had my own lesson in how many fluorescent colours alcohol now comes in… get your shots out! There’s a video on it’s way from my full show in Oxford, will keep you posted.

Making Beats on the Bus to Bournemouth

We are currently in Bournemouth at the International Centre for the first of the matinee days... one show down, another on this evening!

The drive down was awesome, thanks to my loop pedal going down a treat with the boys, particularly Aidan and Mitchell!
Here's us making some live beatboxing productions on the road, will post some audio shortly!


Thursday 2 December 2010

Aidan, Perri n Mitch - my new street team!

We're now on the second of Hammersmith Apollo shows... 2 dates at this awesome venue, both sold out! Awesome!
I'm also pleased to announce my new street team - Aidan, Perri and Mitchell! Here they are in action with my stickers!


And here's Aidan doing his thing tagging Jay


Perri tagging none other than Pussycat Doll Kimberly Wyatt - go on Perri!!


Aidan adding to the decoration!


And some fierce competition at the pool table... note the pic of me potting the black, ahem!


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