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About Me

Peter Tickell is a fiddle player from Newcastle in the North East of England. Having started playing at the tender age of 6 (much against his will) he soon began to enjoy going to orchestra instead of footy (the two fell, tragically, on the same night). He took part in many competitions as a wee nipper, winning all Northumbrian opens on three consecutive occasions, reaching the final of the 2001 BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award and the semi-final of BBC Young Musician of the Year. His musical influences are varied and eclectic, having trained classically and been strongly influenced by the music of Northumberland and the Borders, he also played piano and guitar from a young age. Aged 16, he joined the Kathryn Tickell Band and decided he wanted to play the fiddle full time, instead of pursuing a career on the right wing for Blyth Spartans. At 17 he was appointed leader of Young Sinfonia orchestra, and has since had the pleasure of playing with Northern Sinfonia's Bradley Creswick, Evelyn Glennie, Peatbog Faeries, The Unusual Suspects, Fraser Fifield, Mr Mcfall's Chamber, Kris Drever, Jon Redfern, Colin Steele's 'Stramash' & Lindisfarne's Billy Mitchell amongst others. His greatest living memory is being smiled at once by Peter Beardsley and his most embarrassing moment was thinking his little pecker (anag. Peter Tickell) was hanging out during a gig. Fortunately for everyone involved, it wasn't.

My Interests

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Member Since: 12/4/2006
Band Website: www.kathryntickell.com
Influences: Starting roughly in order then descending into chaos, purely musical influences of course...Jimi Hendrix, Kathryn Tickell, Mike Tickell, Willy Taylor, Will Atkinson, Julian Sutton, Joss Clapp, Chuck Berry, Tom Waits, Tom McConville, Ian Dury and The Blockheads, Hector McAndrew, Stuff Smith, Louis Armstrong, George Gershwin, Aidan O'Rourke, Martin Hayes, Eilidh Shaw, Adam Sutherland, Rick Taylor, Oliver Schroer, Tom Pickard, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Talking Heads, Pixies, Frankie Gavin, Arcade Fire, Jerry Holland, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Eugene Ysaye, Paganini, Maxim Vengerov, Led Zeppelin, Lowell George, Lindisfarne, Sting & The Police, Dolphin Boy, The Fugees, Fiddlin' Doc Roberts, Maybe Myrtle Tyrtle, Kevin Keegan, Sir Bobby Robson, the viz...
Record Label: Resilient Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

pursuit of happiness

Late notice, but if anyone happens to be near a television with digital capabilities this evening being Saturday the 6th December 2008, More4 are showing 'Pursuit of Happiness', the most recent produc...
Posted by on Sat, 06 Dec 2008 05:58:00 GMT

rainy day

Summer has ended, not that it ever really began, the birds will fly south to north yorkshire, taxi drivers rejoice at the return of drinking academics from far away places like sutton coldfield and be...
Posted by on Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:19:00 GMT

arcade fire gig

Went to see left-field Canadian rockers Arcade Fire the other night at the Newcastle Arena, first time I've ever been in there. At 30 quid a ticket, I was expecting no le...
Posted by on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:23:00 GMT

21 yesterday!

Cheers to everyone who came along to Wark football club last night for me birthday. Very overwhelming experience and I now have enough bottles of whisky and wine to last... at least a week on current ...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 07:18:00 GMT

Maybe Myrtle Tyrtle @ Monument/HMV

Hate the BNP? Love live music? Come to the Monument in Newcastle city centre this saturday afternoon (28th April 2007) and rock out to squacka-billy-eccentros Maybe Myrtle Tyrtle in th...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:54:00 GMT

celtic connections

madness, utter utter madness... the festival that can be relied upon to oust those winter blues. Highlights included seeing the ducks play in the festival club (what a fantasic band), going out on the...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:48:00 GMT

the very sadness

I was saddened to find out that 'Winterville', one of my (and many other people's) favourite bands, have split up. They were a really edgy live act, in your face ene...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 07:29:00 GMT

almost the number of the beast

Hello there. I've never posted a comment on the internet before so please excuse me if there's any 'table manners' or etiquette I've disobeyed. Yes, I washed my hands first and no, my mouth ...
Posted by on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:27:00 GMT