Artist description Soloist, with occasional band behind him. Finely -wrought lyrics, veering (depending on the song) from deep irony, theatricality, probing the psyche, to (sometimes) sheer nonsense.

Music Style careers between rock, folk, jazz and Bartok

Musical Influences soft machine, classics, jazz, avant garde, Gentle Giant,michael nesmith, noel coward

Similar Artists has been compared to a cross between billy joel and the bonzo dogs. Depending on the song, can veer between MOR, Elegiac Folk,

Artist History Actor and composer of new music for choir, sax, wind quintet, handbells, children's music for radio, one time A member of a Just Flying Kytes, a classico-jazz-rock outfit closest to Focus.

Group Members Just him

Instruments keyboards, bass guitar, guitar, penny whistle

Albums 1. "Bootlegged by his own hand". 2. "Sprinting round a one ince circle"

Press Reviews "Decidedly quirky songs....somewhere between boogie-woogie and advanced atonality" (The Scotsman) "Somewhere between Billy Joel and the Bonzo Dogs" (Acoustic Underground)

Location Gorebridge, Midlothian - United Kingdom

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