VANRAY, aka Pete Long, is a solo acoustic artist based in West Yorkshire, recording and performing original material and covers at venues across the UK and beyond.
The driving force behind indie band Moonpump and the alternative electroacoustic act Fie! Fie! Fie!, VanRay has been prolific in terms of penning tunes, with many of the tracks featuring on radio stations around the world.
A typical live set features cover versions as diverse as Soft Cell, Bob Marley, Pixies, Rag N Bone Man, James, Neil Young, John Martyn, The Cure, Blondie, Nirvana, Green Day, AC/DC, TLC, and many more..
The release of the new album AS THE CENTURY'S DEFINED and the EPs The First Circle, Stoplines & Byways, A Stones Throw Away and To The Dark Earth in 2021/22/23 has seen tons of worldwide airplay and exciting opportunities for VANRAY.

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I'd been playing guitar for more years than I care to think about in a variety of musical styles, in bands and solo. Then I bought a (relatively) cheap resonator just to use as an extra tonal colour for home recording projects. I very quickly realised that this was the musical voice I'd been seeking for thirty-odd years and I started writing and performing again. My "mission statement", if you like, is to take slide guitar out of the "Blues Ghetto". Hence songs like "On Raglan Road" and "Vincent Black Lightning" as well as my own stuff, very little of which, I think, comes even close to being Blues. I now play, by the way, a National Resophonic Style 1 Tricone with a nickel plated brass body.

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