In a musical landscape where the simplicity of good songwriting is fading, former Royal Marines Commando Brett Wayne Lee has manage to capture the simplicity of the traditional piano-man with the gritty stories of life seeping through. Setting the scene with a black-key heavy intro, Lee’s reflections on meeting your soulmate packs a punch with a climbing score that taps into the rollercoaster emotions of love and anticipation.

Move Close to Me

So had to restart my account under new management, so 32,788 followers to zero hay ho ...here we go again but better bigger stronger and in more control. 1 step back can be 2 steps forward. (So please follow again :) My stage and birth name is Brett Wayne Lee - My mother was very big on Hollywood greats and so I guess I am an emulsification of her love for Brett Maverick (or more to the point a young James Garner)…luckily for me Brett Rockford didn’t have the same ring to it. My middle name was taken from the late great John Wayne so yes, not much to live up-to. 

I wasn’t born in Hollywood not even Hollyoaks, I am a 70’s kid from a small mining and rugby town called Leigh in Lancashire. It could be said the best thing to come out of our town are the main roads but you cant help but love the people. They are a tough bunch, many of my relatives working on the mine-face their whole lives or at the thriving foundries and cabe works of the time. My Grandfather was a coal miner and my Dad a cable work guy, you can gather sympathy was not a word in our house dictionary. We had no musicians in the family and no money to buy instruments, I wanted a guitar at 8 and at around 13 I got one. I had it less than 6 months and we were robbed by the regular town burglars who had done 6 other houses that night. Needless to say the guitar was gone and we couldn’t afford another, nor did my parents want another shiny item in the house that would surely entice another would-be crook. 

So starting my musical career was a bit of a challenge and didn’t really take off again until I was 19 when I purchased a new guitar a year into joining the Royal Marine Commandos. Being from Leigh really helps in Combat Zones in fact I suggest being on tour was no more unsafe than a Saturday night on the town back home. That said we did have some cracking bands in the North West and specifically Liverpool and Manchester(the areas I would frequent often as a mature teen as both being geographically 30 mins from our house). 

Shed 7 and Stone Roses are huge influences of mine and I did get carried away with the Madchester Oasis movement for sure….Knebworth forever. I have played all of my idles music at one point or other in my career and to pretty big crowds, always in the best places on earth traveling with the corps. One occasion I recall was playing ACDC thunderstruck on the bridge wing of a British battle ship as we were re fulling with an Australian destroyer, it was pretty cool times to be fair. I wonder what I did with that Polaroid. ?

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