Pete Green - Platform Zero EP

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3...according to our Business Lady on Thu 30 Apr, 2009.

Pete Green is a singer/songwriter from Sheffield that writes poetic yet foppish indie pop like a self-obsessed Billy Bragg with a hangover, yet listen closer to the 'Platform Zero' e.p you'll hear the venom and spite you'd a associate with folk punk. Green takes the opportunity to mock corporate sponsored rock events (best British band supported by shockwaves) to artists with a lack of honesty and integrity ('Happy being me'). It's hard to say weather he's just resentful of other bands popularity and fame or if he's just genuinely disgusted by the state of the music industry. I'm pretty sure this dude had a Myspace hit with the track “I haven't got a Myspace because Myspace fucking sucks”!!! You see the paradox. I'm pretty sure you can't have Myspace hit without a Myspace but I might be wrong. Sounds like Christ T-T so i'm told.

Pete Green is an acoustic pop singer/songwriter from Sheffield, UK. His debut single Everything I Do is Gonna Be Sparkly was released on Atomic Beat Records in 2007, when he also appeared at the Indietracks indiepop festival. He also scored an internet download hit with his ode to Myspace which was simply called “I haven't got a Myspace because Myspace fucking sucks”. His new EP, Platform Zero, is released on the Lostmusic label in January 2009.. “It's the height of the festival season, and across Britain Identikit groups of tight-trousered, floppy-haired boys with guitars are taking to the stage, to thrash out a homogenous jangle. Critics have dubbed their sound 'indie landfill'. Is it the death knell of a once-vibrant underground scene? Nowadays, to be an "NME band" is all too often to be a "firework band". The annual NME Awards at which they're celebrated are sponsored by Shockwaves from Wella, the very hair gel with which indie kids style their Kook-ish coiffures from Glasgow to Guildford. With such bland uniformity so speedily infecting our nation's youth, is there any hope left for a flourishing, and truly 'indie', scene? Pete Green fits in to the current indiepop ‘scene’ where people are making music out of love, not greed. The songs are political, simply because they exist. On ‘Best British band supported by Shockwaves’ – the targets are obvious: the NME, Landfill Indie and the whole sponsorship charade. Elsewhere on the EP Pete sings songs of personal discovery, love, football, train stations and sparklyness.

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