Game Of Chess (Demo)

Rock/pop song, quite 1960s, with an alternate verse in French, in the style of Serge Gainsbourg.

We Are Real EP

Queen of the Future

Poetic folk-rock song about the lost romance of youth.

Save Your Dreams EP

Molly G

Fusion of rock, pop, post-punk, with hip-hop beat. Fairly deadpan delivery. Subject - a waste of life.

Lazybones

Pop-rock love song for a youthful girl, with Caribbean-Latin flavour.

Little Monkey

Visual song, culminating in a surreal coda (Save Your Dreams) – “You are your soul / And only you can save your dreams ...”

Save Your Dreams

This is a play on words about things you shouldn't smoke :)

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Joanna (By Slightly Offensive Steve)

Fiery and topical single, defying the doom – about the failed conquest of Mars.

Leaving Earth a burned out wreck – where are our rulers leading us?  Do we want to trade the trees for a land without sea?

Musical influences could be Clash-ish poignancy, Dylan-ish structure, Pistols-ish guitars, Pogues/Levellers-ish beat …

“The Time of Great Waste is a rather fine song.”
– BBC Radio Bristol Introducing

“If ever there was a lyric that summed up the 20th/21st centuries: The Time of Great Waste should be a song everyone knows.”
– Nomenclature Standard

The Time of Great Waste

Recorded by Pete Gioconda for Three Face Music.

Paul Davies (1947-2010) was a popular Brighton performance poet known locally as "Paul Poet".

My Secret Fear Of Birth

Recorded by Pete Pick.

Paul Davies (1947-2010) was a popular Brighton performance poet known locally as "Paul Poet".

To Hell With All The Lords

PETE GIOCONDA is a unique, edgy singer, a protest poet with penchant for historical reference. This mix of punk attitude and psychedelic-folk feel teases the audience to use their eyes ... like a Johnny Rotten (who hasn’t slept in four days) meets Times They Are a-Changin’-era Dylan and strolls into Cat Power’s bedroom for consolation.

Out now on Bandcamp -
* THE TIME OF GREAT WASTE (single)
* WE ARE REAL EP (5 tracks)
* SAVE YOUR DREAMS EP (6 tracks)

Later in 2024 -
* UP YOU (album of 14 tracks)

Pete Gioconda's songs are fused from new wave, pop and folk/rock influences, mingling poetic lyrics with a punk attitude and playful unpretentiousness. Youthful songs of mischief, desire, loss and sadness, plus transcendent perceptions.

Pete has taken the empty culture of materialism and is attempting to untangle it. His song “Hey You, Out with Shopping Bags” acquired new meaning in the wake of 2011 looting. Shadow shopping. The unseen forces which control our perception, which leave us “dreaming of money gods”, form the subject of “Wake Up or Be Captured”. “In one sense, 1970s punk had it easy,” Pete comments. “All it had to do was attack nice fluffy hippies. It’s much harder now, because mainstream youth culture is filled with aggressive patsies of consumerism. Being aggressive back doesn’t work. I’ve tried. It just makes minds smaller.”

“Some people make shopping mall music. Big, calm, blandly elegant. Somewhere to pass the time and feel comfortable. Pete does not make that kind of music. He makes the music of cobblestone streets, winding alleys, shady lanes. Dimly lit bars. The music of cold, still dawns. Of desolate, wild country.” - Nomenclature Standard

Pete’s poetic style is influenced by the freedom he found hitching and wandering in his 20s, and by his love of classic literature. His aim is to merge story, theatre and poetry with his music and songs. In 2008, Pete performed many Bristol-written songs live on BBC3 TV’s “Upstaged”, as guest of performance artist/musician Badgertrap.

The Time of Great Waste

Pete Gioconda

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