More importantly, walking around the funfair in full swing of an evening, I would become aware of the stunning ability of pop music to create atmosphere...make memories...provide a soundtrack to live by...a soundtrack that could lift people from mundanity into some kind of transient glamour. As a young boy, there was also an irresistibly sleazy, tense, side to this life. Trying to nail various aspects of that atmosphere musically has become something of a quest, David Lynch being the past-master.

After settling in London, I attended art college, then, on the back of a lucky break, started as a session guitarist, both touring and studio. Thanks to a plethora of synth bands needing augmentation, there was plenty of work. From the late 80s to mid 90s I featured on over twenty UK Top 20 singles. I continue to work as a studio-based session guitarist/bassist. Since the late 90s I've been working with various dance companies. Writing for choreography is a rare honour and to see one's work interpreted physically is, to my mind, the ultimate pay-off.

'An Ecstasy Of Fumbling' is a soundtrack project, initially conceived to provide music for a specific movie, now expanded to include all soundtrack work and allowing me to indulge in my heroes, John Barry, John Martyn, Angelo Badalamenti, Pentangle, Peter Green et al.

My work is about communicating emotion, mood, atmosphere, tension, intensity, transience, sleaze, hope, loss, instability...film noir is king.

An Ecstasy Of Fumbling

Reluctant Muse