Hi, I'm Pete Wharton and I live in Chesham, England (About 30 miles NW of London).
As of June 1999 I am 43 and have been married 18 years to Janine. I have a daughter aged 15 (Elissa), a son aged 13 (Matthew), a rescue dog aged 5ish called Bouncer (Border collie/labrador cross). None of the other sad people like Uriah Heep at all.

I work as a "consultant" (hahaha) for a company that specialises in computer software and application testing

My main sporting interest is rugby union (the 15 a side version of the game, that was until recently amateur only) As well as being a lower level referee, I also coach rugby to children aged 6 - 12 for my local team. I created the web page for my club at http://www.uheep.freeserve.co.uk/crufc/rufchome.htm

My other interests apart from Heepstering are to get out and fiddle in the garden, have a Guinness or four at the Rugby club, flop out in front of the TV or read a book by Stephen Donaldson.

The first time I heard Heep was when I saw them live as support (with Paladin) to Sha Na Na, back in '71?. I was hooked immediately, but find it impossible to remember details of the exact set list from then. Gypsy was obviously there, but I do remember them doing Dreammare also. Mick's guitar playing totally captivated me. Floating butterflies is the image that has always stayed with me, so maybe that's why I'm more vociferous about Dreammare being better than Gypsy. If only I'd realised then what an impact Heep were to have on my musical listening and still are! After David "left" the band, I didn't buy any Heep recordings for a number of years. But then again, I didn't buy any music for years. I hated the music rags for unfairly slamming Heep. Why they had to criticise Heep lyrics, but not other bands' I don't know. I think that's one reason why I get crabby when Heep lyrics (eg Sweet Sugar) are criticised on the mailing list. I had also just started work and music wasn't quite so important as keeping in food,beer, housing and cigarettes at the time. I haven't smoked since I got serious about her who became the Mrs.
Slowly my Heep collection is rebuilding however, when I can sneak them past the financial controller aka the wife. After years of being the only person I knew who still raved about Heep, it was like a dream come true to discover the Heepsters on the Web.
Now I know I'm not alone I find new heart each time I think upon that webby day!

If it hadn't been for info on the web, I would never have known about Heep's recent live gig in London. Thanks gang. Although I now appreciate the music from my "missing years" more than I did at the time, my favourite Heep stuff is still Salisbury and the Very 'eavy, very 'umble albums.

I would also like to thank Rob Corich for finding and remastering the Lansdowne tapes.
Once again the passion is running high for Heep, so let's have some more 'appy days.