My professional career started at just 20 years old when I was signed to Rondor Publishing with rock band Stone Bird, who toured Europe with Rock Legends such as Motorhead, UFO

As a guitarist I have worked and toured with artists such as Gabrielle, Nelly Furtado, Stacie Orrico, Jack McManus, Kym Marsh and Laura Michelle Kelly plus many record and management companies including Universal, Virgin/EMI. I also play a but of Trumpet for fun!! 

I have also composed and produced library music which for Accorder Music, Peer Music and Lift Music. This has seen my music placed with the BBC, Channel4 and Netflix. 

I have engineered ,mixed produced a number of albums for an independent singer songwriter called JR and Bart Foley as well as cowriting a number of their songs.
 
Since 1999 I have formed and run a number of function bands - www.jumpin.co.uk and www.tommytandthebelletones.com. I also MD exclusive bands for ALR Music and RNRAgency. This has seen the bands playing for clients such as British Airways, Tesco and Sony and travelling as far as Australia and Dubai. In 2015 I bought and continue to run the  award winning entertainment agency www.functionjunction.co.uk. 

In 2009 I joined the team at Morpeth School Music Department (www.morpethmusic.com) in Bethnal Green as a peripatetic music teacher. Since then I have become Managing Director of Music . This is an extremely wide a varied role which is extremely fulfilling.

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