Biography

Briefly, I’m an actor, musician, freelance writer and DJ who can take photographs. I’m also an arts professional that has spent many years working in arts development and as a creative arts worker.

From the age of 16 I wanted to be a musician, and I toured the pubs and clubs of the UK along with bits of Europe to promote the mostly unsuccessful albums created over the course of the following two decades. My last gig was at the Cornbury Festival, 2009, but after recently picking up the guitar for the first time in two years, my debut solo album, The Instrument, will be released on Runningonair Music as a digital download and limited edition vinyl under the name Suborno (16 March, 2012). You can read more about this in an article I wrote about the process for The Quietus.

Collected, published pieces about music written since 2009 can be found here (Clash Magazine, The Quietus, The Line of Best Fit, musicOMH, Drowned in Sound, Subba Cultcha,  God is in the TV, Brainer Magazine). In both 2010 and 2011, I was nominated for ‘Live Music Reviewer Of The Year’ in the Record Of The Day Awards. I didn’t win.

In 2008, I auditioned for a role in Gillian Wearing‘s debut feature film. Having secured a role, the experience of participating in Self Made (2010) positively altered both my direction and sense of self. I have since trained for two years with method acting practioner, Sam Rumbelow.

I take photographs too.