Singer/ songwriter, vocalist for British Fiction, drummer and shared vocals for The Blueniks.

I enjoy composing & producing music in my home studio. Having been turn on to music by the like of Iron Maiden, early Black Sabbath, Ozzy, Megadeth & Queen heavy rock/metal was the original direction I took when I sat down to try to compose my first tunes.

Pink Floyd found a way into my life & also a way into my creative thought process and this was a big turning point for me, the Floyd showed me that verse chorus etc was not all that music could be. I soon started playing with sounds & sound fxs, the world of music had just become so much bigger...........& better.

More bands followed, Gong, Marillion, & the absolutely out of this world Ozric Tentacles all reinforcing the verse chorus 4 minute song is not for everyone.

Finally around 2003 I set out to record what would become my first album/EP Stand Alone Together, id come up with a theme surrounding the 1969 moon landing & how a good % of people believe the mission was a hoax & I wanted to try & tell this story using music. With my Floyd & Maiden influences in hand I set out to piece together some demos I had recording over the previous few years.

I managed to find a really good group of musicians & vocalists to work with who helped massively in the final out come of Stand Alone Together.

The album went on to sell well worldwide through my Myspace page & I also managed to gain plenty of radio airplay along with a handful of interviews, for someone like myself this was a great success & I was over the moon with what we had achieved up to this point. 

Due to family & work life music took a back seat up to 2009 when I finally decided to form a live version of AREA 39 & take Stand Alone Together on the road, the live band just like the studio band was full of great musicians & a great vocalist. We managed to perform a good run of UK live dates before I decided it was time for some new music.

It took between 2012 & 2020 for the next album to be composed & recorded but this time I managed to record all guitars, bass & orchestral parts myself bringing in yet again another great vocalist, well actually she was out of this world & I also brought in really great rock drummer.

This time the vibe was very much more a rock/orchestral sound & with tunes about the Titanic & the Dambusters I decided to call the album Adaptations. The full album is now available on soundcloud free to download.

Here we are now in 2025 and some demos that I have been working on for a few months have started to take shape and they are very different from any of my previous work to date.

These tunes take on a more driving sound, using synths mixed with guitars, is it Alternative? Is it pop? Is it Dance? I'm not sure what genre these tunes are; so, I will let the listeners decide.

I am also using these demos to try and find musicians who like what I've started and would maybe like to get involved to help finish them.

Any vocalists, keys/synth players, guitarists who like what im doing please contact me.

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