I was born in Liverpool (yeah yeah yeah!) and moved up to the north east in my late teens for what I would now loosely call education purposes. I have always sung but taught myself guitar and piano so I could accompany and put some structure to the songs and lyrics that have always floated around in my head.

I joined bands, did gigs, played all kinds of regional venues including the Working Men’s Clubs circuit where you do not get any second chances and that probably toughened me up to be able to perform to any audience. However this was all mainly ‘covers’ and I was desperate to get my own songs out there. This happened to some extent with the bands I played with but really came to the fore when I started performing as a solo artist.

Support is from Holly Perkins.