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Upon his return from America's West Coast, Scottish singer/songwriter Pete MacLeod, begin's to perform and record in the UK's music circuit. Releasing the single "Rolling Stone", (with proceeds going to Cancer Research UK) the song is a dedication to Pete's Father who recently became ill with cancer. The record is musically optimistic and uplifting and tell's the story of Pete's life so far. After performing a solo acoustic show at Glasgow's King Tut's, Pete realised he had some musician friends gathering around him for general support. Little did Pete know at the time that it was all beginning to fit into a fateful line-up.

"I started to acknowledge that I had a few friend's around me when I came back from the Los Angeles. Fergy, bass player (Cancerian), guitarist Kev Donnelly (Cancerian) and guitarist Pedro (Cancerian) and Bonehead (Cancerian). All four musician's were in previous band's with me at different times in the past. Not knowing if I was going to form a band again, I allowed things to develop naturally and let time go on to see if this was indeed the right path for me." The four musician's were keen to be involved musically again with Pete but he wasn't convinced just yet if that was the right thing for him to do, as it's a tried and tested road he has been on before. The band went into the rehearsal studios listening to Pete's song's and performing it by ear with several different drummers to see how thing's felt. Thing's weren't working out for various reasons and Pete had accepted that this was to be the way fate had turned out, until he had heard of young drummer and local musician, Martin Johnston's talent's. After a chat on the phone with the conversation ending on asking Martin what his star sign was and Martin replying "Cancerian, why?", Pete began to realize that this was to be fate's handling in some weird way.

The band went into rehearsals in Glasgow and played Pete's songs with the outcome being very impressive. After a few weeks of rehearsals Pete wondered if he should name the band or not. "I'm a Leo, so I thought about calling the band Leo and The Cancerian's but decided not to risk being sued by Leo Sayer and I left it for a few day's. Then I looked at it after I typed it into my iPhone and noticed that the star sign LEO was already in my name!" Pete MacLEOd & The Cancerian's. Pete named his previous band thestar69. He got a tattoo on his arm when he was 22 with the ying yang and the 6 and 9 in the circle instead of the dot's. Weirdly, 6 and 9 is the Cancerian's symbol. It just might be that some thing's are in the stars...

Pete MacLEOd & The Cancerian's will be a collective force of musician's performing Pete's songs on the live circuit.

2011 - Pete self-releases (digital only) single "Rolling Stone" with proceeds going towards Cancer Research UK. The song get's picked up by Janice Forsyth as BBC Radio Scotland's single of the month and gains a very credible 6 week continous airplay on her show,(Saturday afternoons between January/February across the whole country). Other National and local stations pick up on the track including Radio Clyde, Jim Gellatly's show's, In Demand and Amazing Radio and the legendary and brilliantly run local community radio station, Sunny Govan FM . Q magazine get in touch with Pete again to inform him that they are to put another one of his songs in the top 50 downloads of the month. Pete performs another acoustic solo show in Los Angeles to a very warm welcome. Possibly one of the best solo acoustic show's ever for Pete. Pete forms a band and play's various show's around the UK.

2010 - Pete performs solo acoustic at various singer/songwriter venues in and around the Los Angeles area. One being regarded as the best venue to play for such artists in the West Coast, Hotel Cafe. Pete receives a great response from the audience and performs various encores before leaving the stage with an emotional and grateful goodbye.

2009 - Pete self-releases another digital only EP this time titled "Lost and Found". Talented artist and good friend of Pete's, Nathan Hamill (Mark Hamill's son - The actor who played Luke Skywalker in Star Wars) works with Pete on the artwork for the EP.

2008 - Pete self-releases a digital only "Acoustic EP". One of the songs on the EP, "Panic", enter's into Q magazines top 50 downloads of the month. With Alan McGee praising the song which was recorded in a cupboard in Pete's apartment in LA. Pete also goes on a (UK) acoustic tour with former Oasis guitarist Bonehead performing on all of Pete's songs. Bonehead add's himself to the growing list of many fellow listeners connecting with Pete's music including Alan McGee, Steve Cradock, Robbie Williams, Jim Kerr, Dave Grohl and many more.

2007 - Pete goes on tour with a band he has huge respect for and one he has always been a fan of, Ocean Colour Scene. Pete also performs his first ever show in the U.S.A (Los Angeles) with indie music label visionary Alan McGee taking in the solo acoustic show and then playing Pete's music on the decks. A good moment for Pete and his music.

2006 - Pete tours the UK with his band. The final date ending on a headline show at Glasgow's ABC1 venue.

2005 - Pete self releases debut album "This Is Modern Soul".

2004 - Pete is invited to perform at Scotland's biggest outdoor festival T in The Park and his single enters into the British charts.

1996 - 2004 - Pete travels up and down the country (UK and Ireland) as a solo artist under the name of thestar69 doing various support slot's whilst performing his own original material.

1996 - Pete performs his first ever live gig on stage. A short performance, playing two of his own songs.