When not sitting behind his
Roland with the Shrinks, Pete reverts to his other, more
celebrated persona - Pete Atkin, near legendary singer-songwriter
of ‘English Chanson’.
With his writing partner
Clive James (yes, that Clive James), Pete made six albums
in the 1970s, which narrowly avoided large-scale commercial
success, but created a huge cult following that still
flourishes today.
As the decade of flares and
feather cuts came to a close, Pete and Clive gave up on
the music business
and took
day jobs, one in TV, the other in Radio (you have to
work out
which), but continued to write together. In recent
years Pete returned to the studio to record two excellent
albums
of Atkin/James material: The Lakeside Sessions (a double)
and Winter Spring, the latter featuring several fine
musical contributions from various members of the Shrinks.
