Perter Saaremets
Perter Saaremets
Peter Saaremets is an experienced musician and performer who has worked with Skimstone Arts for the last 9 years. Before joining Skimstone Arts he was experienced as a performing musician for 16 years specialising in Jazz and performing at Jazz venues across the North East. With Skimstone Arts he has devised, improvised and performed in Doorbells (Barnsley CIVIC Theatre and Northern Stage Scratch Nights, Edinburgh Festival), Peace Process-ion (Sunderland Minster / Sanctuary Arts Space Gateshead) and Cold Coffee (Edinburgh Festival), Tea-side – a Travelling Tearoom (North East of England), Time for Tea (Part of Open Heritage Days in Newcastle), Angel Train, Dust and Sojourn (Washington Arts Centre) trained with Frantic Assembly and Spymonkey at Hull Truck Theatre.
He continues to be Lead Artist and supports young people facing life challenges to write, compose and perform their own songs in major public settings.
Peter Saaremets is an experienced musician and performer who has worked with Skimstone Arts for the last 9 years. Before joining Skimstone Arts he was experienced as a performing musician for 16 years specialising in Jazz and performing at Jazz venues across the North East. With Skimstone Arts he has devised, improvised and performed in Doorbells (Barnsley CIVIC Theatre and Northern Stage Scratch Nights, Edinburgh Festival), Peace Process-ion (Sunderland Minster / Sanctuary Arts Space Gateshead) and Cold Coffee (Edinburgh Festival), Tea-side – a Travelling Tearoom (North East of England), Time for Tea (Part of Open Heritage Days in Newcastle), Angel Train, Dust and Sojourn (Washington Arts Centre) trained with Frantic Assembly and Spymonkey at Hull Truck Theatre.
He continues to be Lead Artist and supports young people facing life challenges to write, compose and perform their own songs in major public settings.
Perter Saaremets
Perter Saaremets
Peter Saaremets is an experienced musician and performer who has worked with Skimstone Arts for the last 9 years. Before joining Skimstone Arts he was experienced as a performing musician for 16 years specialising in Jazz and performing at Jazz venues across the North East. With Skimstone Arts he has devised, improvised and performed in Doorbells (Barnsley CIVIC Theatre and Northern Stage Scratch Nights, Edinburgh Festival), Peace Process-ion (Sunderland Minster / Sanctuary Arts Space Gateshead) and Cold Coffee (Edinburgh Festival), Tea-side – a Travelling Tearoom (North East of England), Time for Tea (Part of Open Heritage Days in Newcastle), Angel Train, Dust and Sojourn (Washington Arts Centre) trained with Frantic Assembly and Spymonkey at Hull Truck Theatre.
He continues to be Lead Artist and supports young people facing life challenges to write, compose and perform their own songs in major public settings.
Peter Saaremets is an experienced musician and performer who has worked with Skimstone Arts for the last 9 years. Before joining Skimstone Arts he was experienced as a performing musician for 16 years specialising in Jazz and performing at Jazz venues across the North East. With Skimstone Arts he has devised, improvised and performed in Doorbells (Barnsley CIVIC Theatre and Northern Stage Scratch Nights, Edinburgh Festival), Peace Process-ion (Sunderland Minster / Sanctuary Arts Space Gateshead) and Cold Coffee (Edinburgh Festival), Tea-side – a Travelling Tearoom (North East of England), Time for Tea (Part of Open Heritage Days in Newcastle), Angel Train, Dust and Sojourn (Washington Arts Centre) trained with Frantic Assembly and Spymonkey at Hull Truck Theatre.
He continues to be Lead Artist and supports young people facing life challenges to write, compose and perform their own songs in major public settings.
Perter Saaremets
Perter Saaremets
Peter Saaremets is an experienced musician and performer who has worked with Skimstone Arts for the last 9 years. Before joining Skimstone Arts he was experienced as a performing musician for 16 years specialising in Jazz and performing at Jazz venues across the North East. With Skimstone Arts he has devised, improvised and performed in Doorbells (Barnsley CIVIC Theatre and Northern Stage Scratch Nights, Edinburgh Festival), Peace Process-ion (Sunderland Minster / Sanctuary Arts Space Gateshead) and Cold Coffee (Edinburgh Festival), Tea-side – a Travelling Tearoom (North East of England), Time for Tea (Part of Open Heritage Days in Newcastle), Angel Train, Dust and Sojourn (Washington Arts Centre) trained with Frantic Assembly and Spymonkey at Hull Truck Theatre.
He continues to be Lead Artist and supports young people facing life challenges to write, compose and perform their own songs in major public settings.
Peter Saaremets is an experienced musician and performer who has worked with Skimstone Arts for the last 9 years. Before joining Skimstone Arts he was experienced as a performing musician for 16 years specialising in Jazz and performing at Jazz venues across the North East. With Skimstone Arts he has devised, improvised and performed in Doorbells (Barnsley CIVIC Theatre and Northern Stage Scratch Nights, Edinburgh Festival), Peace Process-ion (Sunderland Minster / Sanctuary Arts Space Gateshead) and Cold Coffee (Edinburgh Festival), Tea-side – a Travelling Tearoom (North East of England), Time for Tea (Part of Open Heritage Days in Newcastle), Angel Train, Dust and Sojourn (Washington Arts Centre) trained with Frantic Assembly and Spymonkey at Hull Truck Theatre.
He continues to be Lead Artist and supports young people facing life challenges to write, compose and perform their own songs in major public settings.
Reality Boots
About Reality Boots
Reality Boots has an 11 year history of young musicians creating music together about issues that matter to them and the world around them. Over the years the band has evolved welcoming and saying goodbye to different faces but always having a strong creative community. This year the band has partnered with other young people’s organisations across the region to create one last album, Hidden Worlds The Final Journey, including The Soundroom (Gateshead), Jazzy Dystopia (Jack Drum Arts), Newbridge Youth Project (Newcastle), Tuned In (Redcar), and Standing Upright (North Tyneside).
The message of Reality Boots is one of community and of working together to make change. Every singer, musician and writer in the band pool their talent and work together to create excellent music with a focus on social issues.
Reality Boots has released 3 albums, Louder Than Words, Void/Evolve and Breaking Barriers and toured their music across the region aimed at inspiring the next generation of young musicians.
Reality Boots 2023-24
Reality Boots performed at UNITY Festival '24 Great North Museum: Hancock and Kirkleatham Museum where they were joined by Jazzy Dystopia from Jack Drum Arts performing their collaboratively written song!
Reality Boots have taken part in Skimstone Arts HMD 2024 events by writing a song that they then recorded at Blanc Studios. The recording was played at A Night of Fear and Freedom and on Skimstone Radio. The Young Artist collective then took the lyrics of their song to a print workshop at Northern Print and also got the chance to create a band poster using different printing techniques.
Reality Boots performed at Ouseburn Festival 2023 with their original songs as a band and members also had the opportunity to be part of the busking programme, performing some of their solo material.
The Albums
Louder Than Words was Reality Boots’ first album, a collection of work centred on the issue of Young People’s rights or lack thereof. It expressed the injustice of the non-existence of these rights through powerful lyrics and emotional music, to raise awareness of this issue and inspire audiences to take action.
Reality Boots’ second album, Void/Evolve, is a collection of work in a different vein. Although still containing political themes (unavoidable with such a band), this album was an exploration of Reality Boots as artists. The album includes songs created around real experiences of heartbreak, lack of motivation and young people’s mental health, relatable issues that feel genuine through Reality Boots’ voice.
In 2022 Reality Boots released Breaking Barriers their third album to amplify unique unheard voices, to discuss the overlooked issues people may be affected by, and express the experience of lockdown, and its effects on us all.
Reality Boots is a band that points out in all of their work: we all have a voice, and we all need to hear each other.
“We can do this. You can do this.”
You can listen to tracks from Reality Boots here.
Recent projects include:
