No chance
Now before some of you start getting the wrong idea and thinking that this is some kind of ego thing, allow me to put you straight. I'm doing this because a lot of people asked me to, for reasons that will become apparent as you read on. Being an obliging sort of chap I couldn't disappoint.
Many of you will know me as the guitar and songwriter bloke from erstwhile '79 era Mod bunch Back To Zero. In brief,one classic cult 7" release entitled 'Your Side Of Heaven' and a darn good year of our lives as teenagers growing up in London ( have a look at Jimmy's Back To Zero website ). But life goes on and after BTZ, I formed Kindergarten which, if you insist on a label, would have come under the 'posipunk' tab alongside Southern Death Cult, Rubella Ballet, Brigandage, blah blah. Two releases this time; a 7" single entitled 'Warrior' and a 12" EP called 'The World Turned Upside Down'. Hey, you can find them on e-bay too if you're lucky, or the slightest bit interested.
After Kindergarten split in 1986, I spent around eighteen months playing with Rubella Ballet before jacking it in and immersing myself in home studio land having met my lovely future wife Jeanette. I had this imaginary band called Jonah Day and the sessions that I recorded in my little basement studio between 1988 and 2000 (the walls of which were decorated with around a decade of record companys' rejection letters) are most definitely up there with my most treasured memories.
Some of you will also know about, or even have in your possession, Back To Zero's 2003 reunion CD 'It's All Relative'. All jolly good stuff too and something that those involved should be very proud of, I'd wager.
So anyway, here I am at 46 years old and blissfully married still, with the additions of mini-me and mini-Jeanette in the form of our brilliant kids, Eavie (13) and Tabitha (11). Still writing songs, a back catalogue of around sixty tunes ( all of which you can have as free downloads if you want them), still playing live (mostly with an incredible performing arts company - check out Chickenshed ), but no longer hankering for the rock star life. Thank heaven for small mercies. Had I ever found fame and fortune I suspect I'd probably have suffered the ill-effects of excess many Keith Moons ago.
So here are a few tracks from my recent sessions, recorded in my studio at home in Enfield, North London. Well, it's the bedroom actually ...
Oh, and now I have an alternative page where you can listen to more songs at The Masters Of Accoustic Oblivion .