Born in Darlington in 1977 / Grew up in Saddleworth, Oldham / Art-schooled in Reading / Now writing, performing & publishing poetry in Islington, North London / Full-time furniture restorer / Sloppy Drummer / Designer & Illustrator
After the very sad passing my friend and bandmate Colin Prior, I, for some reason, decided to write and perform a poem at his humanitarian funeral. I’d never performed or written anything before. I still love that poem. This is where it all began. 2015
My first proper steps in to poetry began after watching the excellent Sleaford Mods documentary Invisible Britain . In the film were A Firm of Poets. I was mighltly impressed, this was not what I knew poetry to be. A couple of weeks later, I was doing their workshop and performing a rubbish poem on stage. That night Matt Abbott and Luke Wright made poetry seem like the most rock n’ roll artform I’d seen. I was in.