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About Me

Musician, Artist and Teacher. Grew up just outside of Perth, starting playing music at 16.

Prefer simple over complex.

Love my girl...

Love my drums...

Love my guitar...

Love my funk and my samba...

Love my life...


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My Interests

I'd like to meet:


Anyone interested in African, Brazilian or Funk music genres. Dancers, Musicians, Artists and people with a funky outlook on life. People that I know from my past and people that I will work with in my future.

My Blog

.............14 hours of busking later.

Wow... Just finished a big weekend of Busking. Did 5 hours on friday, 5 hours on Saturday, and 4 hours tonight. And thats not all... today I did a 2 hours of djembe practise with a djembe master from ...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:27:00 GMT

Sambas, Pandeiros, Drum Kit Lessons and Massive instrument orders from Brazil!

Hi all Recently my life has consisted of those things mentioned in the title of this blog. Samba A world of musical styles.... samba de roda, samba enredo, samba reggae, pagode, samba cancao, samba ba...
Posted by on Fri, 30 May 2008 03:46:00 GMT

The brighter side of Blogs

Well things have been a bit better after my last blog. I have cut back on one of the workshops during the week so I have more free time and hopefuly it will make the other workshops more popular. I ha...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:25:00 GMT

Life without Blogs

Well my life has been without blogs recently so I thought I might write and tell you what it is like to be.... "BLOGLESS" Basicly... its hard I am going through really rough patch with ...
Posted by on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:53:00 GMT

Bout time for a blog

Hello my friends I am have just arrived back from a "Sunshine Brothers" show at the Railway Hotel... Its the last show they do in Perth before they head off to record their second album in Americ...
Posted by on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 06:32:00 GMT

The Festive Season

Hi all... Thought I would write a bit about what has been happening here in my life since my love left town and so on... Yamina left on Thursday and I had been pretty strong until that day when I...
Posted by on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 08:53:00 GMT

The Samba Crazy Weekend

Hi all Well its the monday after what was a samba crazy weekend. All in all it has ended up okay but it has definitely been very shakey and emotional for me. I have been working tirelessly leading up...
Posted by on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 23:55:00 GMT

Its the big one!

This week is a huge week for me so I am taking a deep breath to prepare myself... It is just past midnight and I have just got back after a nice meal at my parents house. They are well apart from bein...
Posted by on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:38:00 GMT

Village Vibes burns to the ground

Well its the end an era... Last night Village Vibes caught fire somehow and was completely destroyed by fire. Alastair had 20 years worth of instruments, including instruments that he had made with hi...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:51:00 GMT

Back on the streets again!

Just got back from another long session of busking with Damian. We went out tonight and last night aswell. Its been really great to play with him again and rekindle all my old funk licks. Ofcourse I a...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 10:59:00 GMT