Allen Fredrick is a dynamic vocalist, as well as guitarist, keyboardist and harmonica player, whose style is rooted in R&B, blues, rock, and jazz.  
	He was keyboardist and singer for the Hoodoo Rhythm Devils (Fantasy Records) for two years where he played many club and concert dates in the San Francisco Bay area. He left the Hoodoos to join Maria Muldaur (Midnite At The Oasis) as musical director, keyboardist and singer. He performed with Maria for five years touring throughout Europe, the U.S. and Canada. He was Harmonica player for famed bluesmen Yank Rachel (She Caught the KATY) and Sleepy John Estes (Diving Duck Blues). He has also performed with Paul Butterfield, Elvin Bishop, Bonnie Raitte, Dan Hicks, The Shirelles, Chubby Checker, The Drifters, Jules Broussard, Zigaboo Modeliste, and Cab Calloway.  He has extensive live performance experience, having played internationally for large concerts, showcase clubs and television, including the David Letterman show.  
		He holds a bachelors degree from Indiana University where he studied jazz improvisation from renowned trombonist David Baker, electronic music from composer John Eaton and composition from composer Iannis Xenakis.

Shimmy Rivers And And Canal formed in a rush with five people, none of whom are still members or are in fact known to any of the current line up. Shimmy Rivers And And Canal started in error and continued thereafter.

As the unformed band disbanded further, a drunken barmaid put a CD in the post which had nothing to do with Shimmy Rivers And And Canal, but for some reason had their name on it. Ed Baxter, head of Resonance FM took to the sound of that CD like a duck to whatever, and spectacularly asked to release it, just so he could hand out copies to anyone he liked. He also asked if Shimmy would play at the Birthday Resonancy Gala in the Conway Hall. Someone else found Ed’s reply and, seeing an opportunity, answered positively. A band was assembled sharpish and played that bash, convincing sundry bystanders that what they were witnessing was ‘Shimmy Rivers And And Canal’. From then on that was that. Shimmy Rivers proceeded with a regular assault on Resonance FM with ‘Daddy Said So Land’, which was broadcast for months, and got plenty of seriously good bands to play live on the radio, only to be talked over by dimwits.

Shimmy Rivers And And Canal finger lots of pies. Between them they run/ ran/ ruin the ‘Daddy Said So Land’ radio show, the Chubby Nest record label, and the Random Colours recording studio.

YETI LOVE …….an introduction
And so here at Whodoo’s Café at the back of Scream Studios, South Croydon, that we’re greeted by the criminally seductive stench of fresh coffee and fried bacon that leads us past the rumbling rooms of raucous local rock to a central door opening into the middle of a stylish modern café and to Peter Hamilton, the owner and self confessed Yeti lover. To the right beyond a serving hatch is the kitchen and at the other end via the customer tables lie freshly strung guitars, scattered picks, a ukulele, exotic looking pieces of percussion, pages of unfinished lyrics and a fancy microphone with the stand-by light flashing, set for record. This is no Starbucks! I seem to catch Pete in the middle of a vigorous strum. Perhaps I should have knocked. He puts away his instrument and makes for the coffee machine. 
I’m here to learn about YETI LOVE. I’ve been asked to write the biog and I pretended to be good enough. We begin a NME style interview and time begins to take flight. We talk of inspiration. We talk of the greats, a whisper of Lead Belly a murmur of Ben Harper. We talk of folk being the new punk and punk being a type of folk. We speak of Black Flag and of Minor Threat. We talk of honesty, integrity and passion. We shoot the musical shit like rock n’ roll Rambos, taking no prisoners, showing no remorse. 
Q: SO, WHY THE NAME YETI LOVE?
A: “WHEN I WAS A KID I SAW THE PATTERSON BIG FOOT FOOTAGE ON TV. I WAS SCARED SHITLESS. I’VE BEEN OBSESSED EVER SINCE”

The Story so far………
After many years of drumming in established rock bands, touring around Europe and getting disheartened with the overly contrived and mechanistic entrapments of the rock music industry, Pete found himself returning to the drawing board. He opened a café in the confines of Scream Studios. Happier to be his own boss amongst an environment of creativity, he found that the quiet spare moments at the café were ideal for writing new material.
Pete recalls taking the guitar seriously for the first time, “I’d just bought my brothers Martin and Co acoustic guitar, even though I could only play ‘Teen Spirit’ but I just couldn’t let him sell it to anyone else. I started to write songs in my café in the quite time between customers. Eventually I found that I was building a short set.” 
Being half Spanish and proudly hailing from Galicia, Pete speaks of his affinity with the Celtic folk music of the region, “I have always loved the hypnotic rhythms of Galician folk music. Maybe it’s the drummer in me but I feel drawn to that rhythmic approach to strumming the guitar. Those are angry rhythms and it goes to show you don’t need to be loud to sound angry. This is also how I feel about Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Ghost of Tom Joad’ it’s both angry and beautifully sincere.”
It was not long until he realised he needed some more oomph to the overall sound if he was to take it to the stage. “I wanted to try playing the tunes live and really fancied getting in a guitarist with a great touch and foresight to add a possible new dimension to the sound.”





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