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Peace, Love
Peace, Love

Back in 2011, we caught Xander And The Peace Pirates opening for Bon Jovi at Old Trafford
Stadium. It was our first time seeing The Peace Pirates and we were very impressed – most no-
tably as frontman Keith Xander plays guitar with a prosthetic limb. And it seems as though we
weren’t the only ones that have been impressed – as the band have since signed to V2 Records,
after being discovered by Gibson Brands CEO, Henry Juszkiewicz.

tu Xander rewinds to the Bon Jovi “We were writing and performing using loops us and make arrangements for us to attend
Sshow and tells us that the band had ef- as a duo and had uploaded a little video of and represent Gibson Brands in Las Vegas at
fectively split up after that. Of course, Stu and ‘Dance With The Devil’ – Henry saw this and CES – then followed an insane couple of years
his brother, Keith, continued working together. got his LA artist rep Peter Leinheiser to contact of going to Las Vegas, LA twice for NAMM,

XANDER AND THE PEACE PIRATES