A bit about me - I was Born in England of musical parents and raised on the edge of Exmoor in North Devon where I learnt to play the violin and viola. After years of classical training and increasing frustration with music, I started playing drums. Initially playing dub reggae with local dubbers Kashmir but soon joined psychedelic space rock band Slithey Tove supporting the likes of The Ozric Tentacles, Hawkwind, Crazy World of Arthur Brown amongst others and appearing at numerous alternative/underground festivals. Driven by the need to earn a few quid I moved to London and began playing Blues and Rock & Roll on the London scene. This led to many valued musical associations and consequently plenty of work in the UK and Europe on the Blues/R&R scene in a number of bands on a variety of musical projects within the genre.After a chance meeting at the coincidentally named Kashmir Klub in London's West End. I began to play on a regular basis with a number of talented songwriters, finding myself quite in demand as I had great dynamics with an empathic feel. I also had space in my playing for a song!!!In the spring of 2002 I was asked to join Ray Davies' band and with him have since toured extensively throughout the world, had numerous TV/Festival appearances and have worked on 3 Albums._____________________________________________________
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_______________ other points of interest:------ I've opened for Chuck Berry, played on the 'iron curtain' and performed at Glastonbury & The Isle of White festivals. I've toured with a Spice Girl, performed Tommy in it's entirety to it's writer Pete Townsend of The Who and mixed FOH sound for Bert Jansch and John Renbourn of Pentangle. I've jammed with John Mayall, backed blues veteran Louisiana Red and played 'still got the blues' with Gary Moore. For years I've played regularly with half of Elvis' guitar player's band(Scotty Moore), I've performed with three members of The Kinks and yes!........ I've been on Top of the Pops! I've played a few breweries, a distillery and a world famous winery. I've performed in abbey's, cathedrals, castle's and concert halls, arenas, bier-kellers, boozers and royal palace's. I've frozen my pants on in -37°C and sweated them off in 49°C. I've played Rock 'n Roll for Teddy Boys, Pop for screaming girls, Trad Jazz for the real-ale crowd and Trance anthems for an arena of "mashed up" ravers. I've thrashed out high octane blues for The Angels, Hi-NRG Stax for the Northern Soul crowd and on one occasion Rockabilly to a party of Vogue models in cowboy gear. I've played after the strippers..............after the bingo.......... after the wrestling..............after John Cooper Clark ............after the meat raffle.............after Def Leppard..................after the cake................after the drag queen...............after Kenny Lynch.................after the fall (see player) and I've very nearly been bricked in by Roger Water's wall. I've played full-on AC/DC with men playing electric ukelele's and watched AC/DC from the side of the stage at Donnington Park with my brother Sean. I've gigged with Neil Murray of Whitesnake , jigged with string-bending legend Jerry Donahue, and ligged big time at various award ceremonies. I've had a punk/pop project with Andy Taylor of Duran, sung in the same chimney as Bob Marley did his vocals at Island Studios and recorded a sixties classic with the icon who wrote it. I've toured by every transport known to man (except space and submarine). I've played for world peace, trees, whales, foxes, beer and other good causes, launched albums from Lenny Kravitz to Nick Lowe and once played on the Jay Leno Show and met oscar winning actor Cuba Gooding Jnr (with whom I now have an on-going imaginary friendship). I also sang the Jonathan Richman classic "Fly into the mystery" on the Olivier Stage darling at the NT on the South Bank. I'm known for my "spacial awareness" and consequently am invaluable when packing a van. I've travelled over 1 million miles and have peed in all of the world's 5 oceans. I haven't played with The Beatles but I've been to Abbey Road and my mate knows Ronnie Wood of The Stones!MySpace Stuff
