London pensioner rap duo Pete & Bas are coming to tear Fléda down

A rap duo from London would be nothing unusual if the names Pete & Bas didn't belong to two pensioners in their seventies. Peter Bodwitch used to work for the post office; Basil Belgrave spent his whole life teaching piano. They met completely by chance in a supermarket in 2017. Pete was doing his shopping when he heard Basil playing the piano in one of the back rooms. They got talking straight away and soon started experimenting with writing lyrics together. The choice of genre was Pete's: he had come to love drill and rap through his granddaughter.

The duo burst onto the scene with their debut single Shut Ya Mouth (2018), which they first performed live to twelve people at their very first show in Deptford. They followed it with the equally successful singles Dents in A Peugeot (2019) and The Old Estate (2020) with M24, one of the best-known drill rappers in the UK. In 2021 they released their debut album Quick Little Mixtape, and hits such as Mr Worldwide (2022) and Gangster Sh** (2023) have racked up several million views.

From a first show for a dozen people, within a few years they made it to a sold-out UK tour. They have almost a million followers on Instagram and their videos have tens of millions of views between them. They also appeared in the well-known drill series Plugged In, where their freestyle was a big hit. The UK leg of this year's tour has been postponed to next year because of Pete's health, but their debut concert at Fléda will go ahead as planned, with the full line-up, on 30 November.

Tickets -> https://www.fleda.cz/event/1574/