Music

Throughout my adult life, I've had a passion and fascination for live music. In my younger years, only as a member of the audience. Nowadays, a member of two different bands and getting the adrenaline rush of performing on a regular basis.

Passion for Live Music

I was quite content at home listening to LP's on the "Stereo". That was until; at the age of 17 I saw my favourite British band at the time, XTC, play live at Nottingham's "Assembly Room".

That experience left such an incredible impression on me. The enormous contrast between listening to music at home and watching the same band play live was astonishing. The wall of sound, the lighting, the adrenalin in the crowd and most of all the personalities on stage. Such an experience cannot be captured on vinyl and there started my passion for live music.

Below are a few photographs that I've taken from recent live performances. How many of the artists or bands do you recognise?

Alternative, Indie, Punk

Ash, Buzzcocks, Elvis Costello (solo and with The Attractions), Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes, Garbage, Johnny Marr, Kasabian, Lightning Seeds, Skunk Anansie, Talk Talk, The Blockheads (solo and with Ian Dury), The Cure, The Housemartins, The Jam, The Slaves (now Soft Play), The Smiths, The Stranglers, The Subways, The Terrys, The The, The Undertones, XTC.

Pop, Rock

A Flock of Seagulls, Black Eyed Peas, China Crisis, Clare Grogan and Altered Images, David Bowie, Erykah Badu, Jamiroquai, Joe Jackson (solo and with his band), Jools Holland, Kirsty MacColl (with Wilco Johnson), Police, Queen with Adam Lambert, Simple Minds, Squeeze, The Black Crows, The Rolling Stones, The Waterboys.

Electronic

Depeche Mode, Jean-Michel Jarre, New Order, OMD, The Prodigy, The Thompson Twins, Underworld, Yazoo.

Reggae, Ska, Dub

Big Audio Dynamite, Dellé, Seeed/Peter Fox, The Beat, The Specials, UB40.

World Music

Äl Jawala, Che Sudaka, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Gloria Estefan, Habib Koité, Ibrahim Ferrer, Kid Creole, Oscar de Leon, Rubén González, Wally and Ami Warning.

Playing Music

Over the last few years, I've step away from my life-long professional career and away from a stressful and time consuming business life. This has given me the opportunity to pick up an instrument and get up on stage for myself. It's a great privilege and thrill for me to be now entertaining others.

I have chosen to play the Bass guitar and to take inspiration from my Bass playing heroes;
Andy Rourke (RIP) and J.J. Burnel