Pete Lawrence

about

Pete is the conceptual co-founder and artistic vision behind The Big Chill - UK based club, festival, east London bar and King's Cross multi-purpose venue and record label, which celebrated its tenth birthday in 2004 and has arguably been the original inspiration for today's chill-out boom, and indisputably its cutting-edge. He, along with co-founder of the Big Chill, Katrina Larkin, was listed in the latest list of Top 100 Movers and Shakers by Time Out magazine, which highlighted 100 people making cultural, creative, commercial or political waves in the capital, alongside the likes of David Cameron, Ken Livingstone, Tony Blair, Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant, Brian Paddick, Gordon Ramsey, Phillip Green and Madonna. Pete has been immersed in music since day one. His father was a jazz drummer and the young Lawrence followed in those rhythmic footsteps playing with a variety of bands and sessions, before setting up the ground breaking roots and world music label Cooking Vinyl in the 80s, in which he is no longer involved. Things move on however, and one lazy Sunday morning in 1993, the idea for the Big Chill club and festival was born, with Pete working alongside (then) partner Katrina Larkin to build The Big Chill over the years, to the point where it is now celebrated as the best in its field. Over the last decade, Pete has produced many mix albums for the Big Chill and founded, published and edited the highly-respected On magazine, which was in many ways the catalyst

top songs

albums

similar artists