Pete Wilkinson - Interview 1.1.18
Pete Wilkinson is one part of Psyc-Rock-Blues outfit Aviator. Having released outstanding material for the last number of years they are set for more action in 2018. Here Matt Mead catches up with Pete to talk about Aviator, his time in legendary acts Cast and Echo & The Bunneymen, plus which Beefheart he prefers! “The first music I ever listened to was a record that I played over & over on a jukebox in a club in Adelaide, Australia. I would be about 3 or 4 and my mother worked there, she’d give me money to put in the jukey to keep me outta mischief I guess. Anyway, the song I’d play on heavy rotation was Durham Town, Roger Whittaker. Loved it . That’s my first musical memory. After that, it was listening to Red Rose Speedway by Paul McCartney’s Wings, still aged about 4, on my brother’s tape player .” “The first serious music I got into was punk. I was 9 in 1979 so just the right age to be massively influenced by the clothes, the attitude and most of all the D....