and other local musicians.
It was whilst I was in
Big Red’s Bible that I also took up the banjo. Af ter a few years
the band natural ly parted and it was
around this time that I started to become depressed and fell prey to the family heirloom of alcoholism...
I continued to work in an of fice and as my drinking and depression became worse
I stopped playing
as of ten and I ended up wasting years merely existing. Looking back now, it upsets me how little I did to progress my musical ski l ls and how many opportunities I missed during this time.
It was only in 2010 that I began to seriously
contemplate recovery from my alcohol problem. I realised that the one thing that had been a constant throughout my whole life, even during my darkest moments, was music. Even though I had pushed my playing aside, I had always continued to listen and take solace in music, and I decided that music had to be a way to get out of my situation.
I decided to look for a local band to join as a way to get back into playing music on a regular basis. I contacted the Burnley based, LINUS who were just starting up at
the time. In LINUS I original ly
played harmonica and as time went by and my confidence
I made some real ly great friends whilst grew I began to play rhythm guitar
(making particular use of the 12 string) and then lead guitar.
playing with LINUS and found my musical soul mate in Californian born, singer-songwriter Edward Of Sim, who I continue to col laborate with now.
It was whilst in Linus, with my passions for playing reignited, that on a whim and with some gentle persuasion from a friend, I bought a mandolin. I feared this would become a reckless purchase that would sit and gather dust, but I immediately took it in much the same way that I did the harmonica.
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