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Pete Bate

@petebate.bsky.social

190 followers 188 following 65 posts

Living each day as it comes with incurable bowel cancer. Dad, husband, vinyl enthusiast, runner, West Ham, Worcs CCC, write stuff. Seeking the kind way through. Where I’m at: petesprogress.com

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Pete Bate @petebate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New blog post up featuring feathers, cats and this… www.petesprogress.com/post/the-thi...

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Pete Bate @petebate.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The joy of stumbling across a record you’ve been after for years at your local record shop 🥳 #nowplaying

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Pete Bate @petebate.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

♥️♥️♥️🏏♥️

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Pete Bate @petebate.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Perfect for a rainy/sunny afternoon 🥸 Tony Joe White - Black And White #nowplaying #vinyl

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Pete Bate @petebate.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

As someone who has always loved Hot Chip, I enjoyed reviewing Alexis Taylor’s new LP for @spectrumculture.bsky.social . Probably his strongest solo album yet 🎷 spectrumculture.com/2026/03/18/a...

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Pete Bate @petebate.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

New blog post up featuring this superb @robinince.bsky.social couplet: ‘Much that destroys me/Also creates me’ from this wonderful book. www.petesprogress.com/post/keeping...

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Pete Bate @petebate.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

My For Folk’s Sake review of the timely new Mavis Staples album. www.forfolkssake.com/reviews/4198...

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Pete Bate @petebate.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

My first 7inch from either WHSmith’s or Woollies in Lichfield. I used to ask my Dad to pick them up for me in his lunch break. He could never find Addicted To Love though 🤣

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Pete Bate @petebate.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

New blog post up featuring a trip to Moseley Folk Festival to see the brilliant @waterboysmusic.bsky.social plus a fortnight in France and my weirdly behaving cancer latest. @mickpuck.bsky.social www.petesprogress.com/post/reasons...

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Pete Bate @petebate.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

The new album by @bccamplight.bsky.social is something special. Can’t wait to see him live in Manchester later this year. Here’s my For Folk’s Sake review: shorturl.at/po2r5 @bellaunion.bsky.social

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Pete Bate @petebate.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Crap theme parks, Mike Peters, Miley Cyrus and re-purposed trees….new blog post up 🥸 www.petesprogress.com/post/stabs-o...

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Pete Bate @petebate.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I loved chatting to Mike Peters as a young journo 26 years ago in Wolverhampton. He’d just got through his 1st bout of cancer. His, and Jules, brave battle with the disease has inspired me during my own cancer journey. RIP Mike. ”The more I know the more liberty I feel." tinyurl.com/uvhkrktu

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Pete Bate @petebate.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

2 years ago yesterday I was diagnosed with incurable cancer. This morning I ran 6 miles and felt fully alive and thankful. “I will die, yes, but not today” (Kate Bowler). New blog post up! #bowelcancerawarenessmonth www.petesprogress.com/post/we-ve-c...

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Pete Bate @petebate.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

My review of the new @mymorningjacket.bsky.social album ‘is’ for For Folk’s Sake. It’s a good ‘un (the album that it is!) 🤓 www.forfolkssake.com/reviews/4172... @onebeatpr.bsky.social

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Pete Bate @petebate.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Dealing with discombobulation with the help of horse heads and canal boats. New blog post: www.petesprogress.com/post/rejoini...

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