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Pete Briquette
Pete has had a career in the music industry spanning over 30 years as a musician, songwriter, programmer, producer and now as a score writer.
Most recently he scored a feature film starring Pete Postelthwaite entitled The Rat, having written, produced and arranged this with his long time partner and friend Bob Geldof. Pete also scored the music for a 90 minute drama for the BBC called Judge John Deed and also produced the original track with a new act Metisse (Wildstar) entitled Boom Boom Ba, which Madonna selected for her movie with Rupert Everett, The Next Best Thing.
Over the past five years he has been heavily involved with an eclectic batch of artists, adding his special talents to records by such established artists as Bob Geldof, Tricky, The Frames and a new album for Belgium artiste Arne (Virgin, France) as well as working with some very talented new artists including Bloem, Metisse, A and Nillson.
Pete's career of course began with Bob as co-founder of the Boomtown Rats, with whom he played bass and made six albums. During the 9 years in the band he not only wrote and produced numerous album tracks, but two top five singles, Like Clockwork and Banana Republic.
In the early '90's he began a new direction as a producer, and had huge success with French artist Renaud, who's album sold well over a million copies. Later he teamed up with Tricky and soon became his musical director as well as producing most of the Nearly God album, which included contributions from such artists as Damon Albara, Alison Moyet and Bjork.
Pete produced Bob's last album, Sex, Age & Death and co-produced the Happy Club album. He was also the co-producer with Bob of all the remastered Boomtown Rats albums, which were recently released and he oversaw the mixing and editing of the 2 Boomtown Rats DVDs. More recently Pete was responsible for the music that accompanied the Geldof In Africa TV series on the BBC. Pete has been a permanent feature of Bob Geldof's musical life and his great friend since the beginning.
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