About Me
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playListId=280695631Both my parents are Artists. I was born in Brighton on September 2nd 1981 and lived there until moving to Devon aged 1 and a half. It was the same year that Bob Marley died and my Mum played his LP’s loads while she was pregnant with me so he would really have been my first influence. Mum used to sing me lullabies to make me sleep and Dad played his acoustic guitar, self-taught, so there was music early on for me. Living as a child in rural mid-Devon there were walks in the woods by the River Torridge, days at the beach, playing in open fields until the Sun went down. I remember I used to sit under my big old bed recording songs off the radio onto a flat bed tape-recorder and I would give performances standing on my bed singing along to those songs (‘Bad’ by Michael Jackson, for example, or 'If You Let Me Stay' by Terence Trent D'Arby). Perhaps that’s why my Aunty and Uncle bought me my first guitar when I was 8. We moved out to the rugged Atlantic coast, a farming village 15 miles from any towns just before I was due to start secondary school and it was a difficult few years trying to fit in. I did the majority of secondary school at Bude in North Cornwall and took up Electric Guitar when I was 15, which was a massive turning point for me, and started my first band, Malfunktion, who are lost in the orifices of time but were fucking great…
So inspirationally I’d say, vocally, I think Bob Marley is the greatest, but I love all of that beautiful old original ska and reggae – it’s the early stuff that really gets me. If you’re a song-writer you have to listen to Bob Dylan too. Also the old Blues and native stuff too like Radiohead, Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake and John Martyn have been very inspiring for me. More than anything it’s the live music you see that inspires the most vividly – either friends or people you can no longer remember that moved me such as to put their inspiration into my own creation. My Dad’s been influential having played in the house for as long as I can remember, and both my brothers play now which is exciting. I started performing on my own at about 16 or 17.
This is my first e.p. (and a long time coming, nearly not at all) and the first time I’ve worked with a proper producer, a very rewarding and eye-opening intimate experience. It’s the acoustic singer/songwriter part of me, not the punk with his amp cranked up and wah-wah pedal screaming. ‘Princess’ was inspired by this girl and her kid sister and cousin who were enthralled by my bands performance at a boat club in Exmouth and took us walking on the estuary the next day. I used a toy guitar that cost £4 from Plymouth market on it! ‘Love Your Soul’ is about a love I could never have and wandering, high as high, lonely in the cold streets of Exmouth (where I lived for 2 years while I did music college in Exeter ’99-‘2001). It was about 4a.m. and a moment I remember, pausing at some cold, damp steps which I always envision with this song, then I tried to put into words how I felt. ‘Whisper My Name’ came at the end of my first batch of song-writing (aged 15 – 17). I wrote it the day before going to Glasto’99 about moonlit surfs and parties at the beach, being out in nature, tripping on nature, having a vision of my future in a dream, finding safety in losing control. My brother took a photography degree in Brighton a couple of years ago which meant me stomping around my birth-town after over 20 years away. I wrote ‘Chemical Chain’ around the time of his end of degree show, taking inspiration from the work on display, his new friends and thoughts of Kate Moss. It’s a very positive song for me. ‘Sweet Sorrow’ is obviously just that – the feeling when the ones you loved have left you and you know you’re just not going to see them again and there was so much you had planned with them. It’s a release of that pain. The recording of it on this e.p. is a very unique souly sound. The last track on the e.p., ‘India’ (for a friend called India), I wrote after a party in Exeter about 5 years ago. I could feel her heart beating faster than mine and the song is some kind of innocent expression of love in that moment.For now it would be great for me to perform these songs and many more to a wider audience and to continue surfing and partying at every given opportunity. In the near future I’m getting another band started with a vision to just enjoy the music – it’s the best feeling to get a bunch of people dancing to your music! I'm also pursuing the possibility of working live on my electric guitar with a drum and bass dj who introduced himself to me recently at a party. That sound like fun...
A philosophical thought? Just because something seems bad, doesn’t mean it is and the other way around too. Remember that whatever you’re doing in this life what goes around comes around, at least pretty much. Its called Karma. It exists. Inspiring others towards happiness brings you happiness.
