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Hmm, okay, so... I'm a ex-drummer for UK band Four Day Hombre. I've been playing since I was about 16 I think, but only because my best friend got dibs on guitar so I had to settle for the only other instrument I could recognise by name. I've never forgiven him for that. I taught myself for a while and then went to Music College where I failed to learn anything other than to dislike music and gave up playing altogether for years. I went to Huddersfield Music College and then studied Drama at Huddersfield University. During both these courses I met some great people, had some really good fun and learned practically nothing. This may or may not be my fault, I haven't quite decided where to lay the blame yet. An old school chum asked me to lay down some loops for his new band and I begrudgingly agreed... ten years passed and we played over 500 gigs, toured the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Canada and the USA.
I have endorsements with Zildjian, Premier and Vater. I'm a full time musician, drum tutor and music mentor... which basically means I save money on insurance by telling people I teach rather than play in a band.
I'm involved in a group called Dyliss who write, record, film and perform what some people call comedy. We have a couple of shows in December 2008 to get us back into the swing of things having been away from them for 8 years.
I'm very happily married to Rebecca, my High School sweetheart since we were 16; and we have two beautiful daughters, Georgia and Emily. Our house is now plenty big enough although our bookcases are over full. We love each other... a lot.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

...myself as a child and tell him everything will be alright...

...myself as a teenager and tell him to enjoy himself more...

...myself as an adult and tell him to practice a bit harder...

My Blog

Next fdh album

So we've got about 22 songs either fully written, partially written or just plain confused now. The album is really starting to shape up and we're all excited about where it's going.I have, however, b...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:02:00 GMT

Recommended Bands

I absolutely have to mention my other bands as well...Isotopia opened the CYC Festival Main Stage on Saturday. They are quite simply fucking top. They are going to be one of the best metal bands in th...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 04:48:00 GMT

It's been a long time...

So, I haven't written in this blog thing for quite a while. I just tried to think about what had happened over the course of this year and make some sense of it all. We still haven't had a break so it...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 04:29:00 GMT

Last week

So last week was fairly interesting all things considered, I really enjoyed myself.The Frames remain a quite remarkable live band. People are never as straightforward as you think they are. Working wi...
Posted by on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:19:00 GMT

I meant to do this last year...

Meant to write something last year but was either too busy (before Chrtistmas) or just couldn't be arsed (after Christmas).Really enjoyed being busy and rushing around Yorkshire during December. Met a...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 03:19:00 GMT

What to do with myself...?

So that's that then... after 10 or more weeks of being out and about with the band the tour is over. I can't decide quite how to feel about that just yet. Part of me is thankful that I'll get chance t...
Posted by on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 05:21:00 GMT

Can't sleep...

Bollocks...01:35 and I've got to be out of Ed's house at 06:00 and I can't sleep.I blame the internet and late night sport on channel 5.And nicotine.I also blame browsing MySpace.Not gigging as well, ...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:41:00 GMT

Almost done...

It's been a while since I've updated this blog, largely cos we've been rather busy touring around the country in what has recently become the smelliest object on four wheels in the UK. Loads of stuff ...
Posted by on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 04:07:00 GMT

La Laaa La La Laaaa

So I'm having a couple of days off from the tour, what better time to start planning how I'm going to make some money once the fun stops after November 26th...Got some work coming in from a project in...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 06:21:00 GMT

Day of in Godalming

I'm in a small studio somewhere near Godalming writing a blog. We're just trying to finish mixing the new EP while we're on a day off. The touring has been taking its tole on various people throughout...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 10:37:00 GMT