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Pete Harwood

About Me



I'm a guitarist songwriter based in York, UK. I've worked with many bands and musicians over the years as a writer, guitarist and bass player, including the likes of SUE BALLINGALL and MADISON, as well as on library music and soundtracks for video productions.

My current bands include rock covers outfit FREEWAY, and my latest project, MORPHEUS RISING .

In my spare time, I've been fortunate enough to work with a variety of artists such as BILL NELSON, THE ONLY ONES, MOSTLY AUTUMN, TRINITI, THE HOLLIES, FREDDIE STEVENSON, THE HUMAN LEAGUE and MARILLION as a guitar and backline tech.



Morpheus Rising

A classic twin guitar rock band firmly in the mould of the NWOBHM era... check out the band's website at MORPHEUS RISING

The promotional video for 'AN ORDINARY MAN', released 27th October in aid of HELP for HEROES



My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 29/07/2007
Band Website: morpheusrising.co.uk
Band Members:

MORPHEUS RISING:
Graeme Tennick - Vocals
Pete Harwood - Guitars
Damien Sweeting - Guitars
Andy Smith - Bass
Paul "Gibbo" Gibbons - Drums


Influences: Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Saxon, The Cult, Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Marillion, Ian Gillan, Gary Moore, Joe Satriani...
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

What a week!

It's been an incredible ten days or so, and frankly I'm struggling to take it all in!Last weekend, Morpheus Rising uploaded the video for our first release - An Ordinary Man - to YouTube, which reache...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:24:00 GMT

Guitarist required

It's been a busy few weeks, what with one thing and another. Writing and recording new material, rehearsals and a photoshoot for MORPHEUS RISING, plus rehearsals with FREEWAY...We had a photoshoot las...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:22:00 GMT

Writing, recording, rehearsing...

I had the opportunity to work with a guitarist I've known for years but surprisingly have never played with before this week. Phil O'Dea has stepped in as the other guitarist in Morpheus Rising, so we...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:52:00 GMT

The best laid plans...

It's Monday afternoon, but last Monday's rehearsals seem like more than a week ago. It's been pretty chaotic. Somehow I seem to be busier when I'm not earning a living than when I am! Not entirely sur...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:01:00 GMT

Putting it all together...

Let's face it, rehearsing is hard work. It's rarely cause for celebration or even worth talking about, but once in a while things just work. Any muso will tell you that there's lots of pretty dull stu...
Posted by on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:44:00 GMT

Exciting Times

So over the last couple of weeks it's all got a bit intense, but that's good - these are exciting times.After the excitement of Lisbon last weekend - which I'll not go into here as it's not my story t...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:34:00 GMT

A great night for a good cause

We had a great night at the Roman Bath on Saturday - the first gig since January. As many of you will know, our drummer, Howard Sparnenn was diagnosed with a brain tumour shortly after the last gig an...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:30:00 GMT

and the winner is...

How to choose a name for a band.1 Agonise about it for days / weeks / months and then decide you don't like it after a couple of beers.2 Pick something you really like, only for the first person you t...
Posted by on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:14:00 GMT

New Songs

Over the past few weeks, Graeme and I have been working away to complete more songs, and here are three more.We've uploaded five songs now, Save the Day and In The End were done a few weeks back, and ...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:39:00 GMT

First mixes with vocals

Ok so here it is. The first mixes of this project with voice and words (well not quite the first mixes but it always takes a couple of stabs to get somewhere close).The man on singing duties is Graeme...
Posted by on Wed, 14 May 2008 12:27:00 GMT