I’m going to build this chapter of My Story over several sessions because it’s going to quite long and complicated to write. Following the completion of Collateral I wanted to start to build an album with more….well, more bite. I have learnt a lot putting a couple of albums together and it had come to […]

My second album came together far too slowly for the reason I explained My Story 18, click here to read that chapter, but eventually it got released. The album was topped and tailed by two songs, the opening song Like Lovers Do and the final song I wrote for the album Kiss Me Goodnight. Where […]

In the main the older you get the more likely it is that you’re going to need medical intervention. When you get to my advanced years it can feel that life revolves completely around your next trip to the doctor’s or to the hospital. I’ve had a reasonable share of medical procedures over the years […]

Many moons ago I had a friend who had a great saying. She would tell people “I believe that if I cast my bread on the waters it will come back as toast and jam”. I never found out if it was her own original saying or if she had nicked it from somewhere else […]

So I had the songs on the world wide web, I had a CD and of course those were just the very things the world was waiting for. It turned out the world not only wasn’t waiting for my music, the world could not have shown more indifference if it tried. I had a website […]

Half the songs on Present Tense started out some time ago and half were newer. None had ever been properly recorded. I made the decision that I was going to record the whole album myself, to retain complete control of what went on the final album. This meant compromising, often quite a lot, because I’m […]

When I decided to embark on telling my musical story I knew that eventually I would have to write this section. I knew what it would cost me to do that, how I would feel and I’ve dreaded getting to this chapter. But it’s crucial because without it I wouldn’t be at this point with […]

As 2003 wound on I made up my mind to commit my songs to CD. I was very aware of my limitations as a music producer and as aware that I wasn’t getting the best possible results from Cubase because of my lack of knowledge of the program. But even so I had come up […]

In retrospect it was no surprise that Christine liked my songs, that she played them over and again on her car stereo because Christine supported me in just about anything I wanted to do. To be fair it was mutual, we just fitted together. A couple or so years after we met and started living […]

I left Bristol and headed up to North Wales where most of my family had decamped to whilst I’d been in London and Bristol. My personal life had gone to hell in a handcart and I needed somewhere to get some sanity back into my life. That wasn’t easy, or quick. In fact it was […]