I have managed to combine a serious career as a creative business consultant with rock musicand wig / skirt wearing - that's pretty average really isn't it? My transition into selfemployment was more inspired by George Michael's line 'Enjoy What You Do' from Wham Rap thanmy MBA and other formal learning. Personality type ENTP - that's a rare breed!!
Author of two books on creativity etc. The latest one: SEX, LEADERSHIP ANDROCK'N'ROLL is acclaimed by top business guru TOM PETERS, who said of it "Sex,Leadership and Rock'n'Roll is a marvellous book, which closes the door on the tidy,hierarchical, know-your-place 'Orchestral Age' and ushers in a new, creative era ofchallenge and change.
Hooray!". Phil Beadle, Punk Rock Teacher and Guardian Columnist thought: "This book rocksharder than early period Sabbath. I gulped it down quicker than Ozzy Osbourne used to down abottle of bourbon."
Copies available at AMAZONAlso available in POLISH
The book has a cameo section on the great Bill Nelson and his approach to personalreinvention. Bill is an all round genius and my most admired artist. Add him from my TopFriends if you wish.
Also the author of a much more academic tome 'Best Practice Creativity' - see AMAZON - Just coming out in Russianafter 8 years in print!Recently on TV on an educational lite chat show - Kinda like 'Parkinson for Teachers' - Takea peek at TEACHER'STV
Run my own business: ACADEMY OFROCK for radical creativity with rock music and HUMAN DYNAMICS forcreative business consultancy.
Play instruments in spare time and organise jam sessions around Kent. Most recent gigs werewith Wilko Johnson's band featuring Norman Watt Roy - the engine room of Ian Dury and theBlockheads and Splodgenessabounds with my Glam Punk outfit GLUNK - on the 30th anniversaryof 'two pints of lager and a packet of crisps please'
My all time love of guitar is the enigmatic Bill Nelson. Admired as much for his approachand attitude to the instrument than 'technique'. No one does it better!I've also played a few times with veteran cult punk rocker John Otway and he wrote theforeword to 'Sex, Leadership and Rock'n'Roll' - As a result I poured my life savings intohis 2006 World Tour and tried to help him execute this audacious strategy. This was a oncein a lifetime experience which broke my heart and bank balance and a great deal was learnedin doing it. During the course of this, I also met Rainbow George, fringe pacifistpolitician and next door neighbour of Peter Cook of 'Not Only But Also' fame. He had someinteresting tales to tell!Two lovely but precocious boys and all the usual joys / nightmares that this brings!
There is some of my own music on ALTERNATIVE POSING - recorded at various points over the years.
