What's it all about ?

A turning point for me came when I was about thirteen years old. The world had suddenly become a bigger place not just my little world of home, school and places in between. All the suffering and injustices of life became apparent for some reason, the starving children on the news and the EEC wheat or butter mountains. The two armed camps at the close of the cold war, government information films saying hide under the stairs and put Sellotape on the windows when the air raid warning sounds. Then amidst all this you get some "Popstar (we had no time for popstars where I lived) singing;

You see your kidney machines replaced by rockets and guns and the public gets what the public wants.......

Paul Weller Going Underground

The words poured out with passion and anger, the attraction was immediate and permanent. Music could actually be something very profound in your life, it could connect with your deepest thoughts and ideas and help make sense of them, or least shatter your feelings of hopelessness and isolation. So my own songs started to emerge really as some kind of cathartic relief from what I was going through. As my eyes opened ever wider with new experiences and getting on top of life and falling down again so new songs would chart the course and so it is today. The labour of love is still in effect, I keep travelling searching new truths deeper discoveries and understandings some of which materialise in to tunes some don't.

When people say why do you still do it after all this time ? I say because its what I do.