About Me

My family would always be listening to music when I was young. I remember music in my childhood as being car journeys to school listening to 80s pop, show tunes and The Shadows at the weekends. I started playing electric guitar on my 13th birthday.

Thank you Mum and Dad. 

 

I Studied electric guitar through secondary school and continued on to study popular music at Harlow College. Whilst there, due to a lack of musicians, I transitioned over to electric bass. College got me gigging locally and finished with a very modest European Tour. After college played in several wildly unsuccessful bands, I was also lucky enough to land a few session gigs in and around the Essex countryside. I remember spending vast amounts of time at The Square in Harlow, learning a little sound engineering and lighting.

 

After a few years off from music, I spent a not insignificant amount of time in the tiny Derbyshire village of Castleton with an acoustic guitar and nothing else to do. I ended up taking a job in a music store in Sheffield and started teaching and repairing guitars. It was there that I met Alexander Diamantis, a man with quite beautiful tone.I spent a year studying classical guitar with Alex: Studies, Fingernails, Reading, all the basics came from him. Sadly a busy teaching schedule took me in another direction until Covid, when,while staying with friends, I picked up a classical guitar once again. It has been my life ever since. 

 

Us classical guitarists are a solitary bunch. Knowing how much I’ve learnt from other guitarists in the past, I decided to form the Sheffield Classical Guitar Society, which I then led for 3 and a half years, and I have them very much to thank for my speedy progression. The society’s first Masterclass with Alexander Whittingham really helped me understand playing professionally and also what a musician needs to be re. Social media.

 

It was around this time that I started composing, probably my biggest musical joy. I have 40 pieces and counting that I am now rushing to get out.

 

Very recently circumstances have allowed me to take music more seriously. 

I have started performing publicly, releasing music and with a great deal of help from my wife, Jessica, at Baby Bream Studios, have started making music videos on Youtube and generally playing the social media game. 

 

I feel like I am at the beginning of something pretty awesome.