Filthy Pedro has formed a new band called En Heat. Featuring Filthy on guitar and lead vocals, it also features fellow Brighton based musicians Gazik Stan (drums), Jay Canapé (bass) and Oliver Fist (keyboard). En Heat are currently working on their debut album, and you can see when they are playing on their website. Below […]
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Who is Filthy Pedro?
Originating from an unpronounceable rural outback of Anglesey and rumoured to possess mysterious druid-like powers.
An imp of the perverse and pioneer of the UK anti-folk scene. Filthy can often be seen playing with the Carthaginians, a band of lunatic musicians who keep on losing it.
Find out more about Filthy Pedro.
Metro Newspaper:
"A raucous, indeed filthy, songwriter whose tracks fit somewhere between Jeffrey Lewis's mordant wordplay and the beat-up folk of Will Oldham's Palace Brothers"
NME:
"thoroughly excellent (and a bit odd)"
Lauren Laverne:
"Author of couplet of the decade: Drinking Jack Daniel's in the bathtub/Making a pact with Beelzebub"
Nude Magazine:
“Self-consciously amateurish and defiantly lo-fi"
Michael Hogan, Vanity Fair:
“If Filthy Pedro didn't write the book on perversely ingenious acoustic rock’n’roll, he can at least find it using a card catalogue”
Time Out New York:
“Is Filthy Pedro to dirty sanchez as chips are to fries?”
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I’ve covered Shirley Collins for a new compilation
I’ve recorded/rewritten a Shirley Collins song for a new compilation to help fund a film about her. See the video below: Shirley Collins comes from Sussex and and wrote and performed as a key member of the English folk revival of the 1950s. It’s her role in the legendary Lomax recordings that also form her […]
by Filthy Pedro on July 15, 2014 in Uncategorized
Immortality anyone? Going in search of a legendary Mermaid
Gilgamesh famously failed in his bid for immortality, but I’ve always been tempted by the idea, and so this Easter weekend represents a rare chance at actually achieving it thanks to an old legend in the Peak District, England’s oldest National Park. Once a year, on Easter Eve, legend has it that an ancient Mermaid goes for an […]
by Filthy Pedro on March 26, 2013 in Legends
Do you party like Justine Beiber or Pete Docherty? Do you prefer bondage or bed in the evening?
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