Just to prove nothing stands still, I have released an online only album of songs that I penned over the last year or so. For more information and up to date news, keep an eye out on My Space.

I started, like many others of my peers in the seventies, by abandoning education (which was frighteningly left wing) and picking up a guitar. Probably not the brightest decision of my life, but unless you wanted to become a scientist or a teacher, that is what you did some of us idiots did.

To keep a short story shorter, I ended up in recording studios - first the famous Trident Studios in london making tea and eventually moved to a company based at Chas Chandler's Portland Recording Studios. Through these notable studios that had played host to bands such as the Who, Status Quo, Slade and so many more, I learned the art of recording and producing voice for advertising, of making a complete story in sound, and started writing music for clients who used the studios. Early work included a jingle for Queensway and working with George Peckham, formerly of The Fourmost, (Porky - The Beatle's cutting engineer) trying to write songs.

Later, as the studios moved and the work and clients changed I wrote music for British Airways in flight and the title theme for three series of Sherlock Holmes radio plays starring Roy Marsden and John Moffat, as well as woking as a sound engineer and occasional producer on many projects.

The need for independence loomed and I started to work from home (then in Cambridge) on music and scripts for local radio, as well as working for a video production company and consulting for a supplier of background music for shops. This period probably taught me more than any other. This was early days for digital recording and music composed using a computer, but I embraced it all - with occasionally mixed results.

Later I returned to London, this time living in the West End and working out of a studio in the old Advision building (where Jeff Wayne's War of the worlds was recorded.) Here my music moved more towards documentary and corporate, working closely with British Pathé News amongst others. I also became far more involved with helping studio clients getting the best out of voices and scripts, and even directed ADR sessions with actors such as Dolf Lundgren. (Nice chap - very tall though!)

Independence loomed once more, and I was head hunted by a company wishing to put a financial radio station online. Budget restraints forced me to learn how to program web sites and databases in double quick time, though my now long experience of computers through music programming helped a little. However, life in this business is never stationary, and the company drowned through lack of investment. I was forced to start again from home.

I now write music and words full time from a small office on the first floor of my house, overlooking a pretty green. The growth of web technologies, and my unwilling knowledge of the internet, enables me to work happily and efficiently with companies up and down the country. Even my singers work remotely, as many have their own studios, and we meet only on the rarest of occasions.

It just keeps getting better!