Dan Pettitt

Thank you for visiting my site and taking an interest.

As a boy I used to look up at the stars and wonder where my life would take me.   I was a dreamer,

and although music was far from my mind, my imagination and creativity was central to my world, I

used to draw and write from an early age, eagerly and intently trying to capture something that I

just had to get onto the page.  I never knew the vision for my creativity until the age of 17 when I

first heard Bob Dylan, suddenly a whole new world opened up to me, one of self expression

and communication that I had never known before; my musical journey began when later I won an

acclaimed poetry prize at my school and my interest turned to rhyme and lyrics.

  My music began with a vision, and a passion.  From an early interest in poetry and writing, my roots

in music began in folk, blues and rock, I self taught myself on guitar and instantly began

recording material on an old beat up tape player, I played with friends, I worked at song-writing,

taking concise and rhythmic structures from poetry and working them into melodies and lyrics.

  It was at this time that I realised what I really wanted to express with music, after hearing the

early protest music in folk, I wanted to take audiences on a journey through my music, combining

spiritual elements within my material, world music, and Native American chants with rock, pop and

ballads, I had the idea of a musical landscape and would later shape my live shows into ongoing

conceptual pieces in its sound or content.  My message and its expression began to matter

to me, with themes ranging from social commentary, mythology, Extraterrestrial visitation,conspiracy

theories and new age thems.  I've also written many love songs and traditional ballads. 

  I started off just performing at gatherings and to friends at university, encouraged that people

thought I had something interesting and different, and, inspired, I later performed with electric

bands, playing in local pubs and clubs, I was creating something which was later referred to as

‘space age rock’ and I would build live sets up to a climactic chant filled release of rock music. 

  I would also just sing with my acoustic guitar from venues in the North East including pubs, clubs

and theatres.   I have also obtained a performance certificate from the Middlesbrough College.  When I

perform solo I am always looking to create something intimate and personal, and I have received

encouraging responses from audiences, musicians and critics.  I have written many songs, I am a

prolific singer songwriter with always a hint to a conceptual landscape in my recorded material

and my live shows, one of an exciting journey I want the audience or the listener to go on.

  Please feel free to listen to my music on the nav bar or I have free downloads available at