Brief History

I was a pro musician based in London for most of my 20's. Various session work in the studio and live as a Piano/Keys player, Bassist and to a less extent Guitar. Luckily I got to work all over the world as a musician.

Having spent time trying to go somewhere with original bands I eventually started to write and produce my own instrumental ambient music, which really was an experiment as a producer with a fairly modest home studio.

Long story short I eventually developed and produced an album for a fairly well known female artist which was the last project I did before quitting music for good, mainly down to the dishonesty surrounding the whole album. 

Luckily over lock-down I found my love and passion for music again and learned also learned to sing. Wrote over 30 songs, some demo clips of them in the first playlist on the left (Every instrument is played live apart from drums which I programmed via midi)

Songwriter

Originally I mainly focused on music and production and collaborated with singer songwriters developing their melodies and having no part of lyric writing. 
I became very proficient at developing singers songwriters and bringing the best out in them.

Having dealt with endless unreliable flaky singers, and generally finding it too difficult to find young talent, I decided to force myself to do everything, something now I wish I had done from the start. 
Lyrics are now as enjoyable for me almost as much as music and melody.

I still love collaborating, and ultimately I want to find the right person or people to write with.

Producer
 

The first album I produced in my 20's was an instrumental ambient album, which was really a creative outlet I needed on the side of playing live which really had become a job and didn't fill that creative void, especially as it was mainly covers.
It was done on Logic with a few instruments I owned and the rest software with programmed drums.
I also collaborated a little with singers and produced demos but no one ever wanted to fully commit to music in the same way I did.

Eventually I developed songs for a young female singer and produced an album with a budget from an investor. From the back of that she signed with Sony.
This was a great opportunity to use some good musicians and make use of an engineer, but ultimately I did all the work. All the pre-production, wrote most of the music including the brass and string arrangements with some input from the session musicians on the day.
I also performed all the piano/keys, some of the bass and guitar parts.

Although there are moments I am proud of, and one song in particular i think is a strong production (Toys in the attic) generally this was too much to take on, and going forward I would love to be part of a production team especially working with a producer/engineer as the engineering and technical side of recording is not my bag.

Demos

1st playlist:
My song clip demos

2nd playlist:
My first ever project, Ambient/Classical Instrumental music

3rd playlist:
Album I co wrote and produced for female singer. (I am currently re-writing some of these songs)

Bottom Video:
Music I composed and produced for an Audi advert


Influences

List of Influences that hasn't been updated for years but gives an idea.
Some of these maybe in the list just from hearing one song, and some will be a bigger influence.

1975, A-Ha, Ardyn, Air, Alabama 3, Alanis Morissette, Alex Winston, All We Are, Alt-J, America, Arcade Fire, Balthazar, Band of Skulls, Beach Boys, Beach House, Beatles, Beaty Heart, Beck, Ben Howard, Beth Orton, Bill Withers, Billie Eilish, Bjork, Black Keys, Blur, Bombay Bicycle Club, Bon Iver, Borns, Broken Bells, Buena Vista Social Club, Choir Of Young Believers, Chris Rea, Cream, Coconut Records, Coldplay, Coral, Courteeners, Crosby Stills & Nash, Daft Punk,
Danger Mouse, Damon Albarn, Daughter, Dave Matthews Band, David Bowie, David Gilmour, David Mitcham, Dire Straits, Django Django, Dodie, Duran Duran, Eagles, Echosmith, Editors, Elbow, Eliot Sumner, Empire of the sun, Exes, Feeder, Feeling, Feist, Fiano Apple, Fleet Foxes, Fleetwood Mac, Florence & The Machine, Foals, Foo Fighters, Foster The People, Free, Genesis, Goldfrapp, Gotye, Guillemots, Guy Chambers, Haim, Hans Zimmer, Hard-Fi, Hippo Campus, Imagine Dragons, Imogen Heap, Irah, Jack White, Jackson Browne, James Bay,
Japanese House, Jeff Buckley, Jem, Jennie Abrahamson, Jesca Hoop, John Meyer, John Williams, Joni Mitchell, Joze Gonzalez, Justin Tebbutt, Kasabian, Kate Bush, Katie Melua, Keane, Kimbra, Killers, Kings of Leon, Kodaline, Kopecky, Lana Del Rey, Led Zeppelin, Local Natives,
London Grammar, Lorde, LP, Lykke Lee, M83, Maccabees, Magic Numbers, Mark Knopfler, Marvin Gaye, Massive Attack, MGMT, MisterWives, Morcheeba, MS MR, Mumford & Sons,
Naked & Famous, The National, Neighbourhood, Neil Young, Nick Drake, Nine Inch Nails,
No Doubt, Noah & The Whale. Noisettes, Norah Jones, Passenger, Passion Pit, Paper Aeroplanes, Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel, Peter Bjorn & John, Peter Frampton, Phil Collins, Phoenix, Pink Floyd, Plan B, Police, Pony Pony Run Run, Plastic Mermaids, Prodigy, Pulp, Queen, Radical Face,
Ra Ra Riot, Radiohead, Ray LaMontagne, Razorlight, REM, Rhye, Robbie Williams, Robert Plant, Roxy Music, Royksopp, RY X, Seal, Seasick Steve, Sheryl Crow, Sia, Sigur Ros, Simple Minds, Soko, Sting, Strokes, Supertramp, Suzanne Vega, Talking Heads, Tears For Fears, Tender, Thomas Newman, Thrills, Tom Prior, Tor MIller, Tori Amos, Tracy Chapman, Travis, Trent Reznor,
Two Door Cinema Club, Vallis Alps, Vampire Weekend, Wet Wet Wet, White Denim, Wild Cub, Wolf Gang, Xavier Rudd, XX, Yes, Young the giant, Zombies, ZZ Top