Not that I'm a control freak or anything (or that I don't have any friends) but I'm basically a one man band (not in the Dick Van Dyke a la Mary Poppins sense....although on reflection I would quite like one of those back pack drum thingys... Anyway I digress). I write and record all of my own stuff (which hopefully isn't too painfully apparent) purely because I like doing it. A former indie kid who's slowly coming to terms with growing up, which is reflected primarily in the progressive shortening of my guitar strap as I realise that whilst it might have looked cool as a teenager, it's pretty difficult to play a guitar that's hanging round your knees.

Idlewild, Roddy Woomble, Radiohead, the Pixies, the Smiths, Sons & Daughters, Blue Oyster Cult, Billy Bragg, Radiohead, Kris Drever, teenage fanclub, pj Harvey, the xx, The National, and loads of others.