Free entry! A prolific live artist, Pete has been refining his songwriting craft on stage (he won the 2024 Fretfest Song Contest in Tamworth) and in the studio, as he heads towards the early 2026 release of the album Barely Fed, recorded with his live band, The Lazy Dog. The Lazy Dog is comprised of Jed Wesley-Smith (Pat Powell, Bec Jenson) on bass— who Pete met when Jed caught his set at the Gasoline Pony in 2023, Tim Bradley (Mambo Brown, The Stoop, Amber Kenny) on drums, and since the album was recorded, they've also been joined by Ross Waraker on keys. Pete's sound is a blend of acoustic and electric folk styles – from Appalachia and London to the streets of Sydney – combined with blues, country, and Americana, showing that his influences are wide-ranging, from iconic artists such as Joni Mitchell, Nick Drake, Bob Dylan, Townes Van Zandt, and John Prine to contemporary songwriters such as Paul Kelly, Bernard Fanning, Neil Finn, and Laura Marling. The first taste of Pete's debut album is the single 'The Parts I've Seen', a song draped in pedal steel and violin and led by his warm, intimate, and melodic voice. A perfect blend of folk songwriting and country music textures, Pete observes and imagines the lives of Sydney beachgoers as they swirl around him. "The characters in it are real, yet unknown to me," he says. "They were just strangers at Coogee Beach that I observed as I sat around, imagining their stories. Pretty quickly it occurred to me - what I could possibly know about them?!" Looking back to the recording of the song, at Studio 57, Pete recalls, "putting the song together in the studio, it reminded me of Watchhouse (Mandolin Orange), with the strings and its vibe. I love Ollie Thorpe's pedal steel playing and always thought this was the one for him to play on!"