Pete Seaton possible Wikipedia

**Broadcaster, Muso, Musician, Singer, Songwriter, Graphic Designer, Annoying Sod & Know It All.**

Pete (born Peter John Seaton) is a Northern Irish radio broadcaster on Apple Radio, and is Autistic, has Aspergers Syndrome. supports Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy, his favourite charity.

From the point of his 18th birthday in January 1988 Pete became regarded as Northern Irish due to his mother's ancestry.

Son of Anthony Clifford Seaton, born in  Essex (1928-1993) a former commercial artist and Lillian June Seaton (nee Dempster) born in Belfast (1928-1973), and Grandson of Edward Clifford Seaton born in North Yorkshire (1897-1938) renowned commercial artist from Rochford, Southend-on-Sea, Essex (who designed and painted the illuminations on Southend Pier c 1935), Pete is the younger brother of Paul Seaton and Kay Jennings (nee Seaton)

Although Pete also holds an Art and Design background, his singing and songwriting skills have always been at the forefront of his life, Pete is a music and television archivist, and has a competent musical knowledge and holds many collections.

Pete and his immediate paternal family are descendants of Scottish King ~ Robert The Bruce, which directly links him to many family pedigrees, dynasties and many other famous people in music and arts, and yes that also makes him also related to actor Danny Dyer, a cousin many times removed. His maternal side come from a strong Irish descent, but with a further Finnish Lindström ancestry from his Irish granny's paternal line, one immediately of his cousin Petter Lindström twice removed was married to actress Ingrid Bergman, so that also makes Ingrid's daughter TV personality Pia Lindström his cousin.

Pete started life in Chepstow, Wales (though that does not make him Welsh), from 1970, in 1971 the family re-located to the seaside resort of Weston-super-Mare, where Pete grew up, where his mother Lillian died suddenly when Pete was just 3 years of age. Pete went to Walliscote Infants and Junior School from 1974 to 1981 and later to Broadoak Comprehensive School from 1981 to 1986

Pete left school in 1986 with 1 CSE in art. He went on to study Art and Design at Weston-super-Mare College 1986-1989 and also studied Graphic Design at Brunel in 1989, also worked as trainee at Presto Print and Swift Sure Print in Bedminster, Bristol. During his return to Weston College during 1990 to 1995 he finally resat his initial exams again in 1993 and this time passed English and Maths GCSE, and other subjects RSA Word Processing, Stages I & II (Both parts of Stage II), gained several module certificates in Cambridge CIT. (all added together is now equivalent to 6 GCSE’s)

As a youngster from age of 12, in 1982 Pete was a loner, bulled at school and spent many hours writing his own songs and recording demos with the dream of forming a band, which actually did happen at the age of 20 in 1990 he was in a little known local "New Wave" band called The Cosmic Thudd (under the pseudonym “Pedz”) with longtime school friend Dave Johnson, the duo performed at the Worle Church Hall on 16th March 1993 although the planned drummer never showed up, they did use their creative use of the facilities, Pete played bongos and sang while Dave was on guitar. The original group disbanded in 1995, but Pete still holds sole rights to the name and still writes and records, occasionally under that name (several demo CDs exist from 1986-2013)

Following the death of his father, he suffered a nervous breakdown, during this time Pete was a part time postman.

in 2003, Pete started the online music forum Poptastic, to this day still exists more on the forums and fringes of Facebook.

Between 2003-2011 Pete had his own web forum Poptastic, and began the Chart Of Gold in 2004, this has now shifted to Facebook. During this time Pete was connected to the Kaleidoscope Organisation of lost and found Television, and published the book Kaleidosope: Top pop 1964-2006 alongside the late Richard Down, although Pete wrote the bulk of the book, Richard is also credited, royalties of this book go to RNLI and Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy (Pete's favoured charity).

In 2011, Pete moved to Northern Ireland with his longtime friend. Finally settling between the Northern Irish Causeway coastal riviera of Portstewart and Portrush.

In 2013, Pete DJ'd on Camfrog between June and November 2013, but following the death of his beloved German Shepherd dog "Holly", this ceased overnight. Pete still uses webcams, but not in a  huge way, as he feels it is waste of technology, and could be used in better ways.

In 2018 things began to change, Pete became more outgoing, more involved again online, but at first with online Radio station United DJ's, he has created many Wiki Pages and groups, and befriended many of the UDJ DJs including his good friend Stuart Busby (also from the West Country), during this year he also met with and befriended local Coleraine band Cellar Door, (as he feels akin had his own band succeeded would've been like), becoming great friends with their lead singer and manager, Gary Anderson who is quite a mentor to Pete.

Pete has promoted Cellar Door on his shows and Mixcloud recordings (and after re-gaining the confidence he once had) joined the newly launched SeaBird Radio, as Pete officially became DJ in 2019. Since then he was on Wave Community Radio, Causeway Coast Radio (in 2020) and Delux Gold up to 2021.

By late 2021 he had moved onto Apple Radio, and throughout 2022 to 2024 he has produced three live "Three Hour'd" radio shows per week for the station The Vortex and The Chart Of Gold (which he established in June 2004) and The Chart Of Gold Years (which began in 2019),

He has said his long intros are to build his confidence and shake off any nervousness beforehand, and occasionally has shook with fear in the moments before going on air, The length of show was because shows go too fast, and each show is basically thought to be the length of two double albums. Pete has a vast love of anything progressive rock, metal and blues and soul, or anything weird and wonderful. Each edition is a good example of how to teach the next generation how music should be.

His listeners and other presenters hold Pete in high regard and even nickname him “The saviour of Apple Radio” ~ Pete has no plans to leave, and as of 2024 he has produced well over 1000 radio shows, well over three quarters have been live..

In 2024 Pete took part in Swim 22 for Diabetes UK, enrolled four days after he actually leaned to swim on 15th January 2024. https://swim22.diabetes.org.uk/fundraising/pete1723