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Welcome. Thanks for dropping by. This is where you can find all my tunes, or at least, all my tunes I’ve had time to record, and am not too embarrassed to make public. If you want to say hello, feel free to get in touch, via this site, or via either Twitter or Facebook.
You might want to just jump straight in and listen to my music, or watch my videos, but if you want a bit of background, here is…
A little bit about me…
A pencil
When I was about 9 I won a pencil for my dancing at a school disco. I knew I could never top that, so I resolved to leave the dancefloor to others, and focus my energies on making music.
My first song came to me shortly afterwards. It was called ‘Sorry‘, and had a rather nice little counterpoint melody on the vibes, probably because it was the only really nice sound on my first keyboard. I saved up for for ages to buy that Casio keyboard.
From 1996 to 1998 while at the University of Salford, I played guitar and sang in a band called Albert. What are the odds on that? It wasn’t my idea to call us Albert, it’s just that my fellow band members thought it was a daft enough word, so we adopted it. Hmm.
While at Salford I met Sir George Martin, who asked me what I wanted to do when I graduated. I told him I wanted to be a rock and roll star. I can’t help feeling I’ve let Sir George down a little.
The Wilful Missing bear
Since 2003 most of my musical creative energy has gone into Wilful Missing, for whom I play bass and sing harmonies. I’m immensely proud to be part of this band, with such lovely friends, making such beautiful music. I have musical ideas of my own that I wouldn’t want to foist on Wilful Missing, so Our Albert is the outlet for all this other music.
I’ve got notebooks full of ideas for tunes, most of which have never got any further than that. But some of my own tunes that have been fortunate enough to make it from the notebook to the studio, you can here hear now.
A million thanks to Tilt Araiza for his visual design work for Our Albert, which I hope you like as much as I do.
