I am a singer-songwriter and I also write music for film and TV. I have played in bands since I was a 14 year old. My first gig was with my mates playing at the Harp Club in Folkestone. We couldn’t get the door open to load in our gear and a huge metal fan kicked the door open shouting ‘jesus these boys can’t even open the fuckin door’. Fast forward many years and I sat down and spent a long time putting together my debut album "Until the Traffic Stops".  My friends helped me out a lot with it all.  It was very home made from a box room of the flat I was in at the time.  I play the violin and other instruments on the album since I also learned those as a kid. They turned out to be useful skills with the singer-songwriter music. A lot of the violins on my albums have been played by me on my own in a small room, a microphone and a computer to record it onto. Anyway, I sent out home-made promos of the first single "This One’s for You" and it was, by pure chance, picked out of a large post bag by Tom Robinson’s BBC 6 Music producer.  At the time Tom Robinson had the weekly show in the evenings on BBC 6 Music.  Well, they played the single and that was an incredibly exciting moment for me.  The single was also picked out of Jim Gellatly's XFM post bag and he played it too.  From there came my first live radio sessions for BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2, BBC 6 Music, XFM Scotland.  A few tracks from the album were The Sunday Times’ "hottest downloads of the week". “I’m on the Right Side” (which wasn't on the album but which in fact existed before it) was used as the play out track to the Dan Myrick film "Solstice".  The second single "My Word What a Mess" ended up on rotation on BBC Radio 2, played by the great Terry Wogan, Chris Evans, Steve Wright and all.  I also did my first of three sessions for the Dermot O' Leary show.  He and his producers have been massive supporters of my music from then to now and I am very grateful to them for that.  It was around this time that I also started writing music to picture, for a documentaries and TV series for the BBC and ITV and so on, for films and short films and various adverts and animations, something that I continue to do now.  Anyway, fast forward to 2009 and I went on tour supporting Alison Moyet, playing for the first time proper big venues – places like The Royal Festival Hall, Symphony Hall and then in 2012 The Royal Albert Hall in London.  My band and I also supported Amy MacDonald, Morcheeba, The Aliens, Starsailor, Clare & The Reasons, Jim Bob and Tom McRae amongst others and we played all sorts of music festivals.  At the time I had a an old Post Office van that we drove around in doing gigs and sleeping in the back.   My second album Call Back was released in 2010.  The album was recorded at home and also at Watercolour Studios in the Highlands of Scotland.  That led to radio sessions alongside people like Ellie Goulding and Turin Brakes.  I did a cover version of Dire Straits' “Brothers in Arms” which ended up on a BBC Saturday Sessions CD which was came out on Sony in October 2010.  We also toured through various Caffe Neros in the UK sponsored by the Nokia Music Store.  The Caffe Nero people have been a great support of my music as have the guys at Imagesound that organise the music that gets played in shops and cafes.  Songs from Call Back also got picked up by some US TV shows.  The editor on those shows really stuck her neck out for me to put forward my songs and "The Shame" ended up being used across the end finale of ABC's "Private Practice". "Don't Hold me Back" was used in Showtime's "The Big C" with Laura Linney and those songs ended up being number 1 all over the world on the iTunes singer-songwriter chart.  My third album "No Shore" was recorded at home with my band and released in June 2011.  It was described by The Sunday Times as "a beautiful album that has Mercury Prize shortlist written all over it”. In 2013 I toured all over the UK supporting Mercury Music Prize nominated Kathryn Williams.  I also played piano in her band.  A short while after that tour we also went over to do a radio session for Radio France in Paris, where I ended up meeting Steve Nieve and became unbelievably inspired by his piano playing such that I wrote a song on my fifth album based on one of his pieces.  I also did a short tour with Steve playing Elvis Costello songs and a couple of my own.  It was really nerve wracking but incredibly exciting.  My fourth album "Beyond the Serenade" was released in May 2015 and more touring followed.  This album was the first one that, thanks to Paul and Lousie Bowtell, was properly recorded in a proper studio with Luke Bullen at the helm and on drums.  It was also properly mixed by Jay Reynolds in London.  It was around this time that the songs "Space & Time", "Always a Way" and "Breathe Slow" were used across various US TV shows.  In 2017 I made "Hang on the Word", this one back to basics, recorded and mixed by me at home.  I ended up touring all over the place solo, in my car, sleeping in Travelodges – very glamorous so it is.  In September 2022 I released my seventh album, recorded rough and ready at home. It’s called ‘We Don’t Know What You’re Thinking’. Album 8 to follow soon in 2024…