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It’s probably not much of a secret to those who know me that I love vintage synthesizers. I used to gaze in awe at images of stars like Rick Wakeman and Vangelis  surrounded by tier upon tier of glorious synthesizers. I picked up brochures of the wondrous objects of desire and even managed to work out what each [...]

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My overiding passion in the mid to late 70′s was the synthesizer. It ticked all of the boxes – lots of shiny knobs and sliders, lots of elctronics and the ability to create a whole new realm of sounds. Whilst I was still at Maidstone I discovered the the Film, Sound and Video unit. Lots [...]

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I’ve had various guises in my life and one of them was/is as a composer. I’ve written loads of tracks for tv and theatre productions – some I’m proud of others, and I’d rather forget about- but hey, that’s the lot of a jobbing composer. Most had to be written, arranged and recorded with ludicrously [...]

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Never one to say no to the sniff of a new idea, I’ve often found myself led down some pretty unexpected artistic tracks – some fruitful… others not quite so fruitful. One rewarding avenue that I stumbled down was my introduction to the world of theatrical production. A one time girlfriend of mine was very [...]

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Steve Jobs sadly left this mortal coil on 5th October 2011 but his legacy will carry on. He said and did many inspirational things in his time but I think this quote says it all really: ‘Your time is limited so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which [...]

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As well as the music and illustration, the other great Artistic passion in my life is photography. I started off with film cameras way before the idea that camera’s could digitally capture an image even represented the vaguest of possibilities. Like my illustration, my photography has always been about people using a reportage style to [...]

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A few years back I had the good luck to be invited onto a Motorhead tour around Spain as official tour photographer for the support band , White Trash UK. Somehow I got roped into doing acting as White Trash’s sound engineer,  so many nights I also ended up running the mighty Motorhead sound system [...]