About

Primarily a drummer, I write predominantly on guitar and have been making music for twenty seven years. I have played all over the UK and Europe and more recently the US. I enjoy writing in teams as well as on my own and love the recording and mixing process. Each facet of the music process fulfils a different need for me.

Playing live is cathartic and has an exiting immediacy. It is a physical and emotional experience that connects you directly to your band mates and audience.

Writing can often be a slower more laboured process but incredibly rewarding when fruitful. Sometimes it can be extremely fast and come flooding through as if transmitted from elsewhere. There really isn’t a right or wrong way to get to the good stuff.

Recording and mixing music has a little of both for me.

Recording a performance requires you summon the feeling you would like to communicate with an audience and capture it in whichever way retains this essence. In this way it has a relationship to playing live.

Mixing however, I consider related to the writing process. Decisions made at this stage can have a dramatic effect on how a song is interpreted by the listener. I get great joy from playing with sound at the mixing stage while trying to illuminate the soul of the song and give it the right feeling.

Arrangement is the bridge between writing, recording and mixing. Decisions made related to song structure, instrument choice, voicing and where parts come in and out all have a fundamental effect on the finished song.

Like anything of value, there can be difficult moments and frustrations in its pursuit but it is as ever all worth it in the end.

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