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About Me

Back in 1974 my friend Tony Morley joined a band called Wooden Lion as their lead guitarist and I became their roadie notably when they played at the Windsor & Watchfield Festivals.In 1976 he left and joined a band that my brother Andy played drums in called Struggle. Struggle got themselves a manager and were booked to support Slade on the 1976 UK tour. I went as their roadie and at the first gig discovered that they had to supply somebody to run the mixing desk. I very quickly learned how a mixing desk works and will forever be indebted to Charlie, Slades's sound engineer for helping and teaching me.This ultimately led to my career in the live music world. I also worked with ex Wooden Lion singer Roy Weard and Tony Morley in both Dogwatch & Last Post as their sound engineer.I moved from mixing live sound to "looking after guitars and people who play them" back in 1987.In 1991 I moved into the world of theatre and spent the next 13 years touring the UK, Europe & North America with such shows as Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story, Great Balls Of Fire - The Jerry Lee Lewis Story & Return To The Forbidden Planet.When my last Buddy tour finished in 2003 I decided that 25 years of living out of a suitcase was enough for me so I re-joined the "real world" I have now been dragged out of "retirement" to run mission control for That Legendary Wooden Lion www.myspace.com/thatlegendarywoodenlion. Watch out for us coming to a venue near you.

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12 Months On

Still haven't caught up. 2 down 1 to go Dateline: Friday November 30th 2007. Venue: A pub called The Quebec Curve on Canada Water in Surrey Quays, don't look for it, it has been pulled down. Purpose...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:38:00 GMT

JCB BH2 with Paradise9 A Bus Pass Bidet Party

I have been very remiss lately and have 3 blogs to post in 3 days Sunday 9th November.. ..The planned benefit for ex Mother of Invention & Captain Beefheart drummer Jimmy Carl Black sadly became a mem...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:06:00 GMT

Carrying Steve to Stevenage

Friday August 1st I travelled from Basildon to The Red Lion in Stevenage for another TLWL show.As usual the rail system let me down. My train from Basildon to London was late arriving and coupled with...
Posted by on Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:46:00 GMT

Kidnapped on a Monday night

In 1886 Robert Louis Stephenson wrote the classic novel Kidnapped.Chapter 10 was entitled "The Siege of The Roundhouse.Since the early 70s Wooden Lion have been trying to break that siege and on Mond...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:24:00 GMT

North and South

What a week it has been. North It started on Thursday June 19th when I travelled to Lancashire to see my family. My parents followed my sister and her family a couple of years ago after her children b...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:22:00 GMT

A Knight of Forts to Remember. (BasFest 08 & TLWL @ BH2)

July 5th & 6th BasFest '08 Gloucester Park, BasildonThe annual BasFest takes place in Gloucester Park, Basildon and is held over 2days.The festival, run by Basildon Council, has grown out of all ...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:20:00 GMT

Shall I take it to the Bridge

Well another BH2 gig went off like a rocket.The guys have taken a wall out to make the room bigger and have also replaced the two top boxes on the P.A. that apparently went down during a set from Gary...
Posted by on Mon, 19 May 2008 12:56:00 GMT

CD escapes. How? Im sorry I havent a clue

Dogwatch CD escapesSo the Dogwatch album has escaped on CD. We knew that this was on the cards as Terry Murphy mentioned to The Captain that he was considering the project when he came to see us at th...
Posted by on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:03:00 GMT

Another week another stadium!

They say a week is a long time in politics but it is an age in rock 'n' roll.You could walk from the Ruskin to BH2 in less time than it would take to go by tube but the difference in the venues and th...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:18:00 GMT

Brighton To London Vintage Band Fun

Friday April 4thReal Music Club / HoveAnother traumatic train journey from Basildon down to Hove. I arrived just after the band went on stage. Fortunatly The venue has an in house P.A. and engineer w...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:10:00 GMT