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Room no.3 10 track demo CD recorded with band in 2000. New solo CD coming out soon entitled 'Summer Music Carnival'. Cant wait? Neither can I!

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Bio

I started playing guitar at about 13 with after being shown 3 chords by my Father. I dropped it for a couple of years because of the ‘boring’ songs he was forcing one me, but I took it up again once I found music that inspired me enough to imitate it. Nirvana was a major influence at the time as the music was so emotion, raw and well.. so damn easy to play! Other Grunge bands at the time like Pearl Jam and Soundgarden were an influence also. Other favorites at the time were The Doors, Beck, The Beatles, R.E.M, Radiohead, which were very influential in whetting my musical taste buds.

I played in a couple of cover bands in school during which I became steered in the direction of songwriting as opposed to playing covers and became the principal songwriter. I thought I was great and destined for stardom. Listening back on some of the stuff we recorded I cant believe how delusional I was.

Around the age of 17 I stumbled across Jeff Buckley’s ‘Grace’. This opened up a whole new musical window for me which I felt at the time, was overdue. I suppose I mellowed somewhat, listening to Simon and Garfunkel, Dylan, Nick Drake, David Grey, Nina Simone and many more. I couldn’t get enough of music at that time.

When I got to college I started a new band, which took up a lot of my Design diploma time - but I wouldn’t have had it any other way. Music took hold. I left College in 2000 and the band, which lasted three years, ended.

Since then I have played in about 4 different 2 acoustic pieces focusing primarily on original material. Around then I began to mold myself as a singer/songwriter over that period, and began playing solo gigs. Most paid gigs I played was as a covers act but since then I have moved towards the open mic side of things where I feel creative expression is encouraged.

I have created, what I feel to be an impressive set list of original tunes that I come to the stage with. I do have a few covers that I like to throw into the mix once in a while which appear from time to time.