About

Early on

I grew up listening to Top Of The Pops and John Peel. Lying awake at night listening to pirate radio and Peel, I loved the sounds of the 70’s and bands like Roxy Music, The Sweet, Bowie and some of the groundbreaking punk bands. Playing in bands from an early age, I always liked good tunes and chords. Pop music was the soundtrack of my life. Eventually my band BLUE TRAIN was signed to BMG ( alongside great artists such as MATTHEW SWEET, PROCUL HARUM, TOOL and GREEN JELLO ) and my life changed. In 1991 we had a record in the Billboard charts ( for 13 weeks ) called All I Need Is You and I got to play at being a pro musician. I traveled across the USA, met my wife and got married and became an ex-pat, living in Minneapolis, USA.

Current

And now I get to play music in Minneapolis. I perform periodically with a number of great local artists as well as a fabulous ABBA covers band, ABBAsolutely Fab! I also have a weekly radio show on KFAI 90.3 FM called TRUE BRIT! where we play nothing but British music and share stories of the music and culture I love.

My first solo record entitled POP was released in 2020 – it was released almost exactly 30 years to the day that I first stepped foot into the USA. What took me so long? Life.

And now, my new album is released, my second solo album. It’s called WHAT WOULD GEORGE DO? It was released in December 2025. Second albums can be ‘difficult’ – this one was easy, but took a long time to get to the finish, for many reasons. The title was inspired by the legendary producer GEORGE DALY, whom I had the privilege to work with on the BLUE TRAIN album in the early 90’s. His work inspires me and I often find myself thinking, whilst recording, ‘……what would George do?’ A great man, still continuing to be great.