WELCOME TO OUR OFFICIAL "THESTAR69" MYSPACE SITE
"THESTAR69" is a solo project created by Scottish singer/songwriter Pete. With Pete's distinctive vocal talents, his vision and his songwriting coupled with a rather amazing stage presence, the songs that "THESTAR69" perform have "World Class" stamped all over them!
Pete's vision has been clear from the start, creating an album that has "great songs with a big sound to back it up". When you hear "THESTAR69's" debut album "This is Modern Soul", it becomes clearly evident that this has become the songwriters intentions.
Its clear to anyone outside of this band, "THESTAR69" have a musical diversity that no-one could question.
"Thats the whole buzz about anything in life really is it not"? says Pete, "change! something different! I guess the whole point of me being in a band is to show a freedom of songwriting that rarely happens in mainstream music today". With me, its all to do with moods i think? somedays you want to hear anthems, somedays you dont want to hear anything!, laughs the singer. Appearances at venues such as Glasgow’s King Tuts (SOLD OUT THREE TIMES), Glasgow’s ABC (HEADLINE SHOW, 1300 CAPACITY VENUE) Glasgow’s Carling Academy, Garage, QMU (Support), London’s Mean Fiddler and Garage (Support), Manchester’s Academy’s 1 2 and 3 (Support) and Dublin’s Olympia (Support), Scotland’s biggest annual music festival T in the Park, L.A.’s Viper Room
amongst many other venues.... show how hard working Pete is to build on his fan base!
After completing all of the above and working on the songs for sometime Pete felt it was time to record the album.
Recently Pete performed an acoustic set of the songs from the debut CD “This Is Modern Soul†in LA with fan and friend Alan McGee...(Creation Records, Oasis, Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine, The Charlatans UK, Mogwai, Dirty Pretty Things).
The CD “This Is Modern Soul†has recently been completed and is now available on the ModRock Music label at various independent record stores and online digital download stores such as Itunes , Napster, CD Baby and many more!
PRESS:
From I-Tunes
I listened to the songs on Myspace and bought this album. Best download of the year so far!!WOW..WOW...and WOW!! This album is absolutely awesome ! I can seriously see these guys being BIG someday! Pete is a Musical Mastermind! This is a GREAT album! The vocalist is Amazing! The band has a European twist. It's Hot!!!!
CDBABY says:This stunning debut album by thestar69 really lives up to the hype after subsequently entering the UK national charts with their debut single . Driven by "the who/led zeppelin" like anthems this LP is destined for success!!!
From the BeatScene: their debut album "This Is Modern Soul", The Star 69 lay down some anthemic indie anthems!