SO, who the hell am I??

Well you already know my name.  I started playing drums at the tender age of 6. Along with my brother and sister, we would play as a cabaret act in my parents dance band.  As kids we were something out of the ordinary, and soon made appearances on television shows and radio.  As time went on I became more interested in guitar, and went on to play in different bands on both guitar and drums.  

Nowadays my main instrument seems to be guitar, but I still play drums and bass with bands and different projects.  It all depends on the music and what is required.   I think I am equally proficient on all three but you can make up your own mind from the sound bites I have on this site.  Some times I'll work on a project playing all three instruments which is pretty cool when I get the chance.   This website is here to give information to anyone who's interested in finding out about me, seeing what I've done, and hearing some snippets of my work.

...And what do I do??

I've been writing and performing music on various things, and with various people, and rather than go into a long boring story about each thing, below are just some of the highlights in a neat tidy list..........   ah, bless...

This is the stuff you might recognise, not to mention some great bands I've had the good fortune to play with and other recording I've done for television and also other artists.

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ITV Gillette Sport
(guitar, drums, bass, synth guitar) - A Saturday morning sports programme on ITV, I had two of my compositions used for this programme during 2000.
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Discovery Channel - web link
(guitar, drums, bass, synth guitar) - Some of my material, and material I've played on used for various programmes.
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Modern Romance
(Guitar) - UK tour with this 80's pop salsa band who had 8 top ten hits (Ey ey ey Moosey, Best Years of our Life, Everybody Salsa, etc), and a new album "Moves 2 Fast" released Jan 2002
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Cannes Film Festival
(Guitar) - Classical guitar piece for theme tune and incidental music for a film shown at Cannes 2001 film festival. Shown also in cinemas and on television.
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Tron
(Guitar and bass) - Band who did 'We Came To Dance' with Ultravox, and had No 1 in Germany, recorded new album for 2001, "Speed Of Light".
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Angel Witch
(Drums) - 80's/90's Heavey Metal Band who are back on the road, covered them while they were inbetween drummers.
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Sharp Practise
(Guitar) - Recorded second album 'Radiocity' with this female fronted band for positive records, with ex Fish and Marillion producer Mark Daghorn.
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Benefit
(Guitar) - Promotional work for this pop bands debut single release March 2002. Signed to Blacklist records and managed by Tony Gordon (Boy George / Culture Club).
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Guitarist Of The Year - web link
(Guitar) - gig for 'Guitarist of the year' by Guitarist magazine at the NEC Birmigham. Also was given a guitar by Peavey... which was nice! (www.peavey.co.uk) web link
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Mariah Carey - web link
(Guitar) - Played for TV appearances to promote her single release such as Top Of The Pops
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German Pop Idols Tour
(Guitar) - Tour of Germany with the Pop Idols, called Superstars over there. They had a multi million selling number 1 album in Germany, tour filmed for RTL television channel, also DVD to be released. All arena gigs for the 19 management group. web link
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Lee Latchford Evans - web link
( guitar / bass ) - Called in to do guitars and co-write with Lee Latchford Evans and producer Chaz DaBat (keyboards for Culture Club)
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We Will Rock You - Mig
(Guitar / songwriting) - After a few days up at the 'We Will Rock You' show met up with Mig (Miguel Ayesa) who is playing the lead in the show. Have been co-writing material with him for his solo project
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Peter Andre - web link
(Guitar) - played on new tracks for Peter Andre's upcoming material he was working on.
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Pop - web link
(songwriting & playing everything!!) - Working with Glen Ball from chart band 'Pop' on new tracks for both him and for him to present for his new band.
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Brian May - web link
(songwriting & guitar) - Working with Brian May from the legendary Queen, producing tracks Miguel Ayesa and I have been writing. Brian was one of my major influences as a guitarist and musician so it was truly a dream come true to be able to work with him........ which is somewhat understating it!!
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Girl - Rick Parfitt Jr
(songwriting & guitar) - writing material for new band Girl fronted by Rick Parfit Junior, son of legendary guitarist from Staus Quo. Also on drums and doing the producing is Jasper Irn, Faye Tozer's (ex Steps) husband, and a friend.
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INXS - Rockstar
( guitar) - Appearing with Miguel Ayesa for the INXS Rockstar programme playing at Shepherds Bush Empire and meeting up with INXS
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Malta's song for Europe!
( arranger, guitar, bass ) - Worked on the Eurovision entry for Malta.... Ah, it's all in a days work!
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B*Witched - Keavy and Edele web link
( guitar / band md) - Working with the Keavy and Edele who previously were with girl pop band 'B*Witched' on their new solo project 'Ms. Lynch'. Acting as md (musical director.... fancy name for me acting the fool and people have to listen to what I say!) and guitarist for their live band and working in the studio as well for them
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The Latch - Miracle web link
( guitar / drums / bass / programming and co-producer) - Lee and I put out our debut single for 'The Latch' called 'Miracle'. I've put the video on the sounds page with some live footage caught by fans at some of the gigs.
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Track Miracle on film Ten Dead Men web link
( guitar / drums / bass / programming and co-producer) - Theme track and our track Miracle was included on the soundtrack for the Film Ten Dead Men from UK independent genre specialists Modern Life. A martial arts film shown at Cannes and guaranteed a 5 million DVD distribution worldwide..... which was nice!
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MiG - New single
( guitar / drums / bass / writing / keys and co-producer) - Recorded MiG's new single at my studio. Single to be released later this year in the States. Was great to be working back together again. More collaborations planned... sweeeeeet!
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Adam Chandler - X Factor
( guitar / drums / bass / keys / writing and producer) - Adam was one of the finalists in ITV's X-Factor programme. Don't normally have much interest in any of that, but happened to meet Adam through work and after chatting did some writing and it turned out pretty good... so we're recording new material for Adams album and gigging here and there too!
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Ziggi Baker - New Album
( guitar / drums / bass / writing / programming and co-producer) - Ziggi's been writing in a writers co-op for ages and previously signed on various labels. Having decided to release an album I was approached her record company to co-write, and produce Ziggi's new album due out next year. Will be touring dates at that point too.
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Shakira
(drums) Was recruited as part of a band for a promo link up with German TV while she was on tour in the UK. Strange but interesting experience!

 



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