ABOUT ME
A polite person may call me enigmatic, most people just call me mad. After a near death, intimate relationship with a huge shard of glass in my bum, I just call myself lucky.
North London boy does good. In my case a good painter and decorator via a career that includes ‘suits you sir’ and as a rock band drummer who tasted more than a bit of success.
We are what life has made us and I’m an ageing rocker with new perspectives on the music I make and the stuff I want to capture on bits of paper and canvas
FROM SUBLIME TO READ AESCHYLUS
VIA BERLIN AND JAPAN
But starting at the beginning in Edmonton, North London, I survived 13 years before I discovered T. Rex and the world changed. It wasn’t long before I’d left school and had a contract with Polydor, aged 14, and was soon on tour drumming in a band called The Crooks, supporting The Police (who else).
I was part of Blue Zoo and our hits got us on Top of the Pops. And I did Wogan with Big Bamboo, somehow managed to squeeze in sessions drumming for the Sun’s Page Three Girls, a gig on Crackerjack and a meeting with Basil Brush.
But I was a serious musician playing in Neneh Cherry’s band on a tour of Europe, supporting U2, playing Hammersmith Odeon and the Dominion. Real music in front of real crowds gives you a real buzz.
TO A LIFE IN ST OSYTH
Life moves on, gets complicated and somehow manages to straighten itself out. We’ve all been there. Now I have time to reflect on my musical influences – Bolan, The Sweet, Alice Cooper, Deep Purple, Sex Pistols, Pink Floyd, guitar solos … and Chopin.
I can ruminate on my likes and dislikes. I dislike soap operas and certain cheeses. I like being creative, causing disruption and anchovies – and being naturally eccentric.
I’m still involved with music, currently writing and recording, but have recently found time to turn my hand to writing, and put to paper the stuff and nonsense I have accumulated over many years as well as contemporary ideas which, obviously, can be found in my book of poems ‘The Glazed Vision Works’. I strive to take a deep look into individuality and the vast differences between each of us in the walk of life.
“When plans do not go to plan, unpredicted, unexpected, sometimes bizarre things strike anytime, anywhere. Are we prepared? Do we prepare?”
