I was born in Shrewsbury, England; in early '64 and grew up listening to a cocktail of the Beach Boys and New Wave groups. Yeah, I know .. it's a strange concoction, but it's a mixture that sees me harmonising on vocals on some songs and hitting the s*it out of other songs! My first band (at 13) was VENDETTA .. a full-on 4 piece (a cross between KILLING JOKE and the BUZZCOCKS). We recorded nothing, but "the music bug" had got me. I got through my teens, making my first forays into studios first as a solo artist with BITE and then forming a band (taking the BITE name with me) and into my 20's, as BITE transformed into GUNLAW and later into BIG POP. I had a brief spell in musical no man's land, before forming the DAVINCIS. I settled in the early '90's in a band called TRASK (a name derived from the first initial of each band member's first name). TRASK released a 12" single on our own GUD record label ..  the imaginatively titled TRASK E.P. before we split. I spent several more years in the wilderness after the split, but "the bug" finally got the better of me in 2003. I put together KEBABYLON PRODUCTIONS and started building my own recording studio and recorded my first solo album there. Naturally, I called it: KEBABYLON.

In 2005, I teamed up again with Trev (the 'T' in TRASK) and formed OTHERSIDE, releasing the VEIL OF TEARS 4 track E.P. in August 2006 and our debut album  LOOKING FOR THE FINE LINE in October. A remix of SWEPT AWAY  (the TIDAL mix) was released in May 2007, C/W an excellent remix by Luton Falls (the SIDEWINDER mix) and a demo of an unreleased song called: OFF THE CUFF. In June 2007, OTHERSIDE released a 23 track collection: AUDIBLE TRACES - VOL.1 (it included the first 2 singles and 16 rarities, alternates, unreleased songs and outtakes). Deborah Harris took over on vocals soon after that album was released. Deb and myself released the next OTHERSIDE studio album: EVERYTHING TURNS TO RUST in late 2007 and preceded that with a 4 track CD single: MORICANA.

As soon as EVERYTHING TURNS TO RUST was released, we turned OTHERSIDE into a 4 piece by introducing Alan Roberts on bass guitar and Stuart Carroll on drums and started work on our 3rd studio album: THERE'S NO GREY IN BLACK! Stu quit 20:09:09 and Dave Goodman (GUNLAW's drummer) joined one week later.  Jamie Keeling joined a couple of months later on vox, guitar and synth, and we played just about every watering-hole you could imagine, plus notching up some prestige gigs at the CAVERN CLUB and the O2 ACADEMY LIVERPOOL. We also had major label interest (which came to precisely nothing). We were quite the shit (I think that's the hip-thing to say, these days). Otherside called it a day (acrimoniously) in January 2012.

At this moment in time, I'm trawling through my musical archives and putting it out there for interested parties to listen to. It'll take some time, and all the links are on the main 'Archive' page. I'm also cramming in as much contemporary pics as I can on the associated pages. Why? Well, I needed to do this now before the tapes crumbled away and the music was lost to time forever. Btw, the DAVINCI and TRASK rehearsals are pretty comprehensive (there's about 12 cd's worth to go through, Master and archive before they appear here), so it might take some time before you get a chance to listen to them.