BETSAN

My profile used to be Frank Zappa Called Me a Taxi and yes indeed, Zappa really did call a taxi for me back in 1989. I was touring America with the Sugarcubes (Bjork's Icelandic band before she went solo) and got in touch with his record company Barking Pumpkin. He invited me over one sunny sunday afternoon to meet up and chat. I spent almost two hours with him in his studio complex which was built right in front of his house up in the Hollywood hills. Dweezil and his band were recording downstairs in the actual studio and so he didn't want to disturb them, but I did get to play his lovely grand piano, ask him loads of questions and he played me various tracks of new unreleased material. WOW! We chatted and he showed me the models, figures and puppets from various films and album covers. When a guy from Paramount turned up for a meeting, Frank happily autographed my copy of his newly released official autobiography and offered to call a taxi for me to get me back to my hotel !!

Now, what seems like twenty billion light years later, I am playing, writing and recording etc. from my lovely happy home in North Wales. My band, CORKY'S CATS is my main musical interest and my latest sideline project, RAGACATZZ, with Jayen Varma (World Record holder for fastest percussive bass), guitarist Sumesh Parameswar and fretless bassist 'Catbass' from North Wales will be hitting you very very soon!
CORKY'S CATS still have some dates available for the Spring - please message me to book us!!
During the years leading up to the Sugarcubes tour and the years that have followed I have been fortunate enough to have always made my living from music and theatre in some shape or form, including a couple of tours, session work, solo seasons, television work, composing for theatre, musical direction, teaching, tutoring and accompanying. My life has taken me across a very broad spectrum and I will spare you my wonderous stories and encounters here, for one day I may write a book about them! For now though, please enjoy..

Compiled by Leaping Cat Records for Inkanish Records to benefit Jimmy Carl Black
Jon Larsen & JCB - Don Preston & Bunk Gardner - Ed Mann - Jerry Ford & Derek Dean - The Wrong Object - Captain Sensible - RagacatZZ - Southern Comfort - Corky's Cats - The Moving Tones - Zappatika - Tony Roberts