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F2g is the coming together of musicians Pete Riley and Andy Nixon. Both Pete and Andy have for many years played together in the Pink Floyd tribute band Dark Side of the Wall, an award winning Midlands based band that has toured the UK from Whitehaven to the Isle of Wight – ‘That’s how we both met.’

Unbeknown to them at that time, on the 13th March 2010 the seed was sown for what would become Freedom To Glide.

The tribute band were playing a concert in Manchester and after the band had sound checked Pete was chatting to Andy about a song ‘Hypnotized’ that he was recording. The song needed some acoustic guitar so he asked Andy if he’d be interested in taking a listen and maybe laying down the guitar. A week later, the track came back not only with guitar, but drums, bass and backing vocals! ‘It was just awesome. The song had now taken a totally new direction. Andy’s input had changed everything, musically we just simply clicked – Thinking back, it was one of those eureka moments.’

Soon after ‘Hypnotized’, Pete sent Andy a keyboard intro with all sorts of military radio chatter and sound effects and the simple statement – ‘it’s a song about WW1 soldiers falling like rain on the battlefield, fancy a crack at this one too?’ The reply came back ‘Roger that…’

Rain was born!

During April both Andy and Pete worked on ‘Rain’ but that wasn’t the only track that was being written. Andy wrote demo’s for ‘Wind’ and an instrumental track that would later become 'Price of Freedom'’. This was getting serious.

Geographically we live over forty miles apart. Andy in West Midlands and Pete in Derbyshire. This hasn’t been an issue though. We both have our own studios at home and the recording is done separately then it comes together electronically via the Internet and hard copies on discs. In fact we could be on the other side of the world and still be creating music together. You don’t need to be in the same room to create ideas and demos, but we do get together for the important stuff like mixing and idea discussions – after all we are a band.

So we had a concept for an album, we had the first set of demos songs steadily building but one thing was missing – we didn’t have a name?

This proved to be the hardest part about our collaboration so far. We spent hours and used up nearly all of our free text messages sending ideas to and thro, but a name just simply came out of nowhere, a phrase that just said it all:


2012 - The Wait

2013 - Rain  ( flac & mp3 )

2014 - Sick To Death (EP)

2016 - Fall ( flac & mp3 0