B I O G R A P H Y

Littlehampton, dreams about trains, a special corner full of old electronics, running away, getting caught, ponchos, cod-liver oil and malt, The Double Deckers, Elm Grove Infants School, Rustington, being excluded for flicking peas, shooting toy bricks onto a greenhouse roof with a bow, snipping the neighbor's roses with secateurs, jumping into a loch, Timmy tortoise, a mad hound called Abbey, looking at the moon and being told someone was up there, wanting to be an astronaut, Saturday morning cinema under the seats, drawing, drawing, drawing, Church, being banned from Church, being allowed back to Church, him seeing her in Church playing the piano, visted by generous Americans, Mum's/Nanna's record collection, wanting to do architecture and live in a Scottish castle, The Swingle Singers, Bert Kaempfert, Frank Sinatra, California Dreaming, Sunshine Holiday Camp, kind uncles, Gardens of Eden that have since been built on, collecting oil paints, going inside the pier, the sea, the smell of oily black mud, the sound of boat masts clanking in the breeze, Texan bars, Connaught, drawing comics, the Smokey Joe wars, creating an exceptionally detailed fresco on the classroom wall and getting injured in the process, Silver Jubilee, Punk, collecting dead insects, epic hikes, going round in circles, The Hobbit, Dr. Doolittle, The Moomins, violining, singing, story telling, getting into trouble for story telling, video game arcades, watching 1000s of movies from the 30s, 40s and 50s, deconstructing Shakespere, wishing RKO Radio Pictures would have a second golden age, building synthesizers from 'army radios', New Wave, John Peel, The Comic Strip Presents, The Golden Age of Wireless, ZTT, programming ZX Spectrum games, pianoing, picking tomatoes for synthesizer money, doing it two times more...