My first recording was in 1982. Simon Ceiciala and myself spent our last few weeks of high school recording a version of The Monkees I’m A Believer and on his ½-track cassette player. Over the next few years, Simons home studio grew and as Something Blue we wrote and recorded our own material. Simone played bass and did the drums and sequencer programming whilst I played guitar and vocals. The bands pinnacle was an audition for UK TV talent show Opportunity Knocks. In 1984, with the introduction of Jerry Howden on guitar, we spent long days in the studio and the making of a video in pursuit for a recording contract as Sight Unseen. 80’s pop stardom was not to be and in 1986, Sight Unseen broke-up and Simon carried on as an Engineer and Owner of Off Beat Studios in Leeds, England.

Between 1986 and 1990, I sang and played guitar with Loose Association and played lead guitar with rock act Tozi, both with drummer Billy Lockwood. Then in 1990 we formed The Dream Team. Consisting of a collection of professional musicians, we created a multi-genre cabaret band playing in clubs around Europe. After 18 months of touring, the band folded.

I then served time as a roadie for Chris Norman, formerly of 70's Brit Rock band Smokie.

In 1992, Keyboardist Phil Rushfirth and myself started a writing and recording partnership. After a performing at a local rugby club function where a clown on stilts attracted more positive attention than we did, we decided to add more musicians to our band and some covers from the 70's disco era. One night, the bassist Ady Bairstow showed up with a suit straight out of an episode of Starsky and Hutch, a shirt with a big enough collar to make another shirt out of, and a 70’s hairstyle wig and matching moustache. That night, Ady was a big hit with the audience and as a direct result The Sound of Funk Enforcement was born with a show dedicated to the hits of the 70’s disco dance floor. Each member of the band tried to outdo the other with 70’s attire and we got a kick out of performing with each other as much as our audience did. In 1998, The Sound of Funk Enforcement ended, and so did 6 years of a great musical partnership between Phil and myself.

In 2004, local Detroit musician Phil Reed and myself conceived The American Pink Floyd Experience with a goal to replicate the music of Pink Floyd as close to the original recordings as possible. After the demise of the real Pink Floyd, we wanted to take our tribute band around North America. In June 2005, we completed the recording of The Thatcher Years, a demo CD consisting of 5 songs of which I did the vocals and some guitars. The band consisted of some exceptional Detroit musicians, but just after the completion of the recording, I decided to leave.