Peter Baxter

Your classic Rock N Roll apprenticeship. Then I stepped up to Festivals and Venues in Australia and eventually Europe, touring and performing in support of singer-songwriters including Archie Roach, Neil Murray (Warumpi Band), Dave Steel, Ralph McTell, Andy Irvine, Ben E King and many more. My first album Since Then (1995) was produced by Dave Steel and released on the indie Stuntpram label in Sydney. It received great reviews around the world and sold out 2 pressings. Dave also produced the follow-up album The Miracle Bell (1997) on Jimaru Records. International Best Selling Author Paulo Coehlo contributed a quote for the liner notes and the album was repackaged and released via Roundtower Records in Europe in 1999. The label folded a month afterwards ( a coincidence I swear!)

I’d already moved back to Ireland and spent the next few years focussing on family and work. Then in 2007, I started working with Producer Dónal Lunny on my next album The Blue Black Waves which was released in 2010. During lockdown in 2020, I had time on my hands and started writing new songs & revisiting the back catalogue. Some of the songs on The Blue Black Waves felt incomplete somehow. So a new project was born & I reached out to renowned Producer David Bridie, sending him the original files and asking him to reimagine the song Pemulwuy. Then 25 years after first approaching him I contacted Australian based Songwriter & Producer Mick Thomas to do the same with 2 other songs. The songs are now, finally, complete and will be released as an EP in April 2022. What about the new songs? Dave McCune (Engineer, Drums and most instruments), Alan Cullen (Bass) and I have been busy working away and recording those and they will be released as an EP in Summer 2022 - so a busy year ahead.