My main music projects are The Dadaists, and Regan & Bricheno.
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Here's a selection of the musical things I've done or am doing, and people I've worked with / am working with.
I survived the great All About Eve 1988 miming disaster.
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- Are You Lonely4:38
- Dear Sir2:55
- All My Love5:28
- Martha's Harbour3:05
I started out in music playing bass for Gene Loves Jezebel and went on to become an original co-founder of All About Eve.
With Mum, Ireland, early 1960s, already enthralled with the landscape
Songwriting, music composing, academic book chapters, journalistic pieces, and creative non-fiction.
I'm working on a collection of lyrical essays exploring interconnected landscapes, wherein the West of Ireland features significantly. I aim to express the persistent gnawing of an inherited melancholy born out of my lived experience of second-generation Irishness, and out of a sense of discomfort experienced during an anomalous period of fame lived out in 1980s London. While there are themes of unfulfilled futures, and lifetimes half lived, there is also substantial acknowledgement of the sparks of joy by which such lives can be suffused and illuminated. Scratch versions of some of those essays, among a few red herrings, can be found on Substack
It's all here at Linktree
I then left the music business, and spent some years in the wilderness and diligence of day jobs. I briefly dropped back into music to co-write and sing with The Eden House. I then got myself a Masters degree in Songwriting. As a result, I spent 7 years at Bath Spa University where I was a senior lecturer in BA Commercial Music, MA Commercial Music and MA Songwriting. While at BSU I gained a PGCHE and became a Fellow of the Higher Education Authority (FHEA).