About Me

I’m a Yorkshire-based singer song-maker and guitarist and have been honing my craft for more than forty years. My work is rooted in the English folk tradition, influenced by guitarists such as Martin Carthy and Nic Jones, songwriters like Bill Caddick and Jake Thackray but, really, I want to be a Foo Fighter.

I’m a long-time resident with Ryburn 3 Step and the Ryburn folk club, but cut my performing teeth in Barnsley and have performed all over the UK, including the Sidmouth and Towersey festivals and West End Theatres.

It’s been a full life. I’ve watched volcanoes in Hawaii, washed elephants in Thailand, delivered newspapers in Rio, sat in traffic jams and yawned at a thousand inter-office memos. But nothing’s more rewarding than engaging face-to-face with an audience, entertaining listeners with ramblings about vampires, lighthouses, decorating, heartbreak and happiness, loneliness and good company.

‘A craftsman songwriter’ – Tykes News

‘One of the unsung heroes of singer-songwriterdom . . . enjoys best-kept-secret status among cognoscenti’ – Fatea Magazine