Self-Penned Bio -

I was born in Oakville, Ontario, Canada to English parents. My mum, a banker from Lancashire, my dad was raised in Norfolk, a former RAF ground engineer turned marketing manager for an automotive company. As a child I had sheep; five and then two and a little motorbike which I used to chase them with. I played sports and went to school. I wasn't fond of school; I would have rather chased sheep around the garden on my motorbike. My appreciation for the arts started when I was quite young; not sure what age but it was the age when going to summer camp was still hip. I enrolled in theatre summer courses that would mount plays and trite musicals about the environment, equality, togetherness and other hippy agendas. As I mentioned, I was young at the time so I didn’t realise I was being exploited; although, I remember getting to wear a full batman costume at one point. I was about ten or eleven when my parents bought me my first nylon string guitar. I’m not sure why they did; perhaps I'd mentioned that I wanted to play like Brian May or Kurt Cobain, which is really hard to do on a nylon string. Music and theatre stuck with me right through high school, even when it became taboo to be an art nerd. Recording music peaked my interest in my early teens. I began accumulating more equipment and recording my own music as well as the music of others. It is my hope to one day release something.

I spent a lot of summers growing up in Accrington, England, a place I would consider a home to me. It's one of many old English mining towns that have seen better days but I like it, it speaks to me. The summer following my graduation from high school I attended a drama school in Victoria, British Columbia and for every mistake I made, I tried to make twice as many triumphs. The one year stint of rigorous training there led me to Vancouver where I worked, struggled and grew as an artist for a couple of years. I tried my hand at absolutely everything I could: Film, TV, Theatre, Improvisational Acting, Stand-Up, open mic nights with a guitar and piano. I also wrote a series for TV with my two best friends about life in the big city as young bachelors with high hopes and big dreams. After months of re-writes we finally mustered the courage to approach some of Vancouver’s top producers and production companies in black suits and ties with our ambition. Needless to say, it fell short of the mark at the time, but since then we've revisited the idea and are now on a second wind with our endeavour. My friends are still pursuing its success as I am in London now. The dream came here and I chased it.

I’m currently working in acting, writing for a Manchester based music magazine, recording and managing an e-business that sells DJing and disco equipment throughout the UK. It sounds like a lot when it’s all written in the same sentence like that, but it fits quite nicely in the time span of a week.

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