Thanks for paying my site a visit, here follows a little history and information about me and why I started to play the guitar in the first place.

My first introduction to the guitar was a drummer school friend way back in the day, I had taken the first single I had ever bought (I was 14 at the time) Radar Love around to his house so that he could enthuse about the superb drumming I had promised him was on this track. So impressed was he with the single that I never did get it back! However, that day I also noticed the guitar sitting in the corner of the room, and at that moment considered briefly the thought of learning to play guitar.

However, I quickly forgot those thoughts as girlfriends and a life changing move to a different location, the feeling of which is considered in the song 'Stranger', played their role on my major thought processes.

It wasn't until I was 22 years old that I once again felt the urge to learn to play the guitar, this was after hearing my brother in law play at a house party one day. I quickly went out, purchased the cheapest guitar I could find and arranged some guitar lessons for the next 6 months.

I learnt to play classical music, I tried to read music, and nearly convinced my guitar teacher that I was reading the music from the sheets, but alas he realised that I was simply playing from memory and from that moment on he 'tabbed the music for me, a blessing, thank you Trevor!

Once I had got past the first 6 months of hell that is learning to play guitar, the sore finger tips, the stumbling around trying to make the chord shapes, the out of tune string bending, I began to find a nice feel for the instrument. I felt an intimacy with the guitar, I could express my musical thoughts with this instrument, I could sing through the instrument. I was like a man possessed, I was playing 7 hours a day every day, whilst working 3 shifts 5 days a week, and loving it.

It was within two years that I decided that I was ready to take my playing to the next level and I wanted to know whether I could play guitar with other musicians, instead of playing along to Crossrods by Cream as loud as possible in my back room. I found a local ad in a local paper, 'Guitarist required, local band' so off I went and auditioned.

The first time you play with 'real' people you begin to understand how dynamic music is, and how important playing music with other people is.  Happily I was considered good enough for the band and that was the start of my audience playing career.

At this time we were mainly playing covers, however I had found that I had some interest in creating my own music, and I found that some people liked my original music too. I found myself recording my first song (which isn't included on this site by the way) a tribute to Jimi Hendrix.

So once I had started to create my own music, and started to realise that some people did actually like it and want to hear it my confidence grew in letting people listen to it when we played live.  It is the strangest feeling when you first play a song you wrote for a live audience as you are really not sure how they might react.

After approx 3 years of working together and gigging together, a few personal things started to happen with the band, not least of which the drummer and bass player decided that they should go to university and carve themselves out a proper career (probably a wise move I guess!), which meant of course that that band was now on hold for 3 years.  We basically did nothing in the way of getting together or practising during this time period, however I did manage to write a couple more songs in this time frame.

Once the drummer and bassist returned from uni, too much time had passed for us to do anything with the original line up so we just played and jammed together, trying various line ups, we had two female vocalists added, but we didn't feel that the music we played warranted that effect and so we retuned to a trio format.  This is the format we are currently in, allbeit without a drummer right now!.

I am hopeful that we can get out and play our music again this year, but I am not sure it will happen, the drummer situation is killing us, and we really need a drummer that wants to play this style of music, and with John and I in order to get out there once again and do what we love doing, playing live.

To me, the whole point of being a musician is to play live, without playing live a big part of why I play the guitar is missing, there is such a rush such a feeling when you play in front of an audience and they appreciate what you do, I miss it so much, and really am determined to get back out there and do it again, hopefully it won't be too long.

Paul