Band Story
1956-65 Ash: primitive efforts - drums with Dad, piano lessons, friend's guitar, own guitar from Father Christmas. School bands, first solo gigs. 1967-8 Aldershot area: JP Trio; depping The Keynotes. 1969-73 Dover: resident at Railway Club - Frank Horton Trio; Pipe & Twee; Bill Barnacle Quartet; depping Martin Brown Band, Ian Shawcross, Bod Bowles Jazz Band. 1973 Crawley: New City Jazzmen. 1973-77 Horley: resident Folk at the Chequers; touring Folk Clubs, Cambridge Folk Festival (twice). 1975 Recording Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer. 1977-1979 Pye Records - LP Wivabandon Oneezone. Radio includes Tommy Vance interview, Noel Edmonds (BBC Radio1), Alexis Korner (BFBS), Richard Digance shows (Capital Radio)). Opening for Chris Rea, Iron Maiden, The Pretenders. Resident - Half Moon, Putney. 1990: ceased being 'Wounded'. 1990-date: resident The Brambles. The Mid-Life Crisis Blues Band, Fair Trade/Reelstrings, Broadstairs Festival: The Phatt B'stards, Pendulum, Civil Minds, Old Hat Band/Les Onions. CDs: A superfluous man, Vinyl tour, Wivabandon, One for Bod, Now then (with Ron Trueman-Border), Indirigible. Recording with Reelstrings, George Wilson, New City Jazzmen, John Parker. Book: "A superfluous man: the book".
