====== Peter York ====== Rock / Alternative Rock\\ Melbourne, Australia "In late primary school I showed an interest in playing the piano so my parents arranged lessons. After several years of following the musical dots, my older brother Ernest showed me some chords on the guitar. It dawned on me that I didn’t need the dots to play music and that I could translate the note reading I’d learnt in piano lessons onto the guitar fretboard. I was off on the guitar. Ernest and I began writing songs together - very bad songs - but it was a start. Soul Reflection was the first band I was involved in with mates at Mildura Tech School. The drummer Allan Watson conveniently lived a few houses up from the school so skipping classes to play music together was a past time. I moved with my Mum, Dad, and four brothers from Mildura to Melbourne in 1968. Melbourne had a very strong rock music culture that kept me imbibing live performances by Australian bands like Chain, Daddy Cool, Spectrum etc. I played and sang at various folk and blues nights at Swinburne University with a school mate David Edny and continued to experiment with songwriting. At 21 I left my job at Allans music in Melbourne to further pursue performing. After the Peter York Band, a 5 piece band in the early 1970s, and various other musical combinations, I performed solo for years mostly around Melbourne coffee houses, pubs, restaurants, churches and lounge rooms. Ten albums of my own songs have been produced along the way which included many other talented musicians - Duane Mitchell, Martin Zammit, Darryl Thompson, Steve Messer, and others. I currently reside in Melbourne and am involved in the music at TLC Church (Truth & Liberation Concern) in Bayswater, Victoria. Songwriting is still my thing." ===== Discography ===== | 1983 | [[https://christiantapeunderground.wordpress.com/2024/05/18/peter-york-close-to-the-bone/|Close to the Bone]] | | 1995 | There You Are: Songs and Instrumentals | | 1999 | Good Stuff, God - Fun Songs for Kids | | 2001 | Break Down the Walls | | 2007 | The Gift Human | | 2011 | Grace Fruit | | 2020 | Long Story, Short Song | ------ ==== Close to the Bone ==== 1983 Independent Peter York - Vocals, guitar\\ Graham McCoy - Guitar\\ Les Price - Keyboards\\ Duane Mitchell - Bass\\ Martin Zammit - Drums\\ Jordie Young - Flute, vocals Rowan Shinkfield - Double bass on "Willie's Blues"\\ Peter Fiddler - Electric guitar on "Blow Your House Away" - Key to My Heart - I'm Alone - Lovely Smile - It's All Right - On This Day - Noonkanbah - Close to the Bone - Blow Your House Away - Willie's Blues - So Good to Be Alive "//Close to the Bone// was recorded c.1983 at David Brigg’s studio in North Melbourne, Victoria. The studio time was generously funded by Alan and Jenny Flack. The album may have never eventuated without the generosity of a variety of artists who so kindly contributed." ------ ==== There You Are: Songs and Instrumentals ==== 1995 Independent Peter York - Vocals, electric guitars, acoustic guitars, bass, keyboards, drum programming, darbuka, harmonica, string arrangements, tambourine\\ Daryl Thompson - Vocals, electric guitars, acoustic guitars, bass, keyboards, accordion, conga, cowbell, darbuka\\ Willemina York - Vocals, bass, flute, recorder\\ Henry Butcher - Bones, bodhran\\ Tim Gleeson - Drums, bottles, conga, cowbell\\ Phil Bosua - Drums\\ Kirsty Conrau - Cello\\ Steve Messer - Dobro, harmonica, mandolin\\ Lionel Holt - Mandolin\\ Carolyn Jackson - Viola\\ Belinda Gillam - Violin - Don't Be Afraid - Dry Love - Porpoise Play - You & I - Where The River Flows - Your Eyes - Fire - There You Are - Wedding Joy - Little Darling - Sister Ocean - You & I, 3/4 - Psalm 150 Rag "Recorded in 1995, //There You Are// was Peter’s fifth album, his first to appear in CD format, and mingled original songs alongside several adventurous instrumental pieces." ------ ===== Links ===== * [[https://www.songs-of-faith-hope-and-love.com/peter-york|Peter York Bio and Music Download]]