The pensioners write everything themselves, with their grandsons and a couple of their friends providing beats and production for them.
Two 70 plus seniors from South London are shaking up the music industry with their witty lyrics and raw beats, creating authentic drill music for the younger generation.
You wouldn’t think two grandads were able to cook up a grime storm, but drill sensations Pete, 70 this month, and Bas, 73, will be dropping their new single “Old Estate” featuring M24 on December 1.
No swearing and witty lyrics make their music accessible to the masses. The duo have also filmed a video for the single on an estate in Rotherhithe.
Notoriously secretive, there are multiple backstories as to what they used to do before their life in the limelight, but they prefer to keep their past and personal lives hidden. One story often told is that Bas was a piano teacher when one of his students introduced him to grime. Legend has it that Pete was a trading standards officer visiting a corner shop where Bas was teaching piano, he heard the piano (and the grime) and the rest is history.
The duo’s first song, “Shut Ya Mouth”, was released in 2018 and since then Pete and Bas have continued to release tunes such as “Dents In A Peugeot” which amassed over 800k listens on Spotify, before their most played single “Quick Little Freestyle” which secured over a million plays on Spotify and Youtube.
“Who said you’re too old to break the scene? I been in the BBC studios chatting to radio people, I been in some of the biggest clubs in the country, but all I wanna do at the end of the day is stick my feet up and watch telly with the wife.” (Pete)
Pete and Bas write everything themselves, with their grandsons and a couple of their friends providing beats and production for them.
The pair are well-known across the drill scene for their continuous features on GRM Daily, and they have gained attention from other well-established artists such as Giggs, Octavian and Headie One.
The duo have also grown their online following to over 200k and have been performing live, their first gig in 2018 was in front of just 10 people at the Graduate in Greenwich, since then, they’ve played Camden Roundhouse, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Reading, Oxford, and Brighton.
Their “Lads On Tour” tour was scheduled for autumn 2020 but has unfortunately been postponed to October 2021 due to coronavirus.
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