My services have, in the last couple of years, been increasingly in demand as engineer/producer in my substantially upgraded facility, Cannon Hill Studio, where I've worked with a wide range of artistes. I have a beautifully creative light and airy attic space, 20 x 15 feet, overlooking Cannon Hill Common, near Raynes Park, South West London. It is perfect for singer songwriters and I will sympathetically create a new sound for your tracks. Or I can also accommodate a band, though erring towards a lighter, more acoustic feel - not really suitable for full-on death-thrash metal, I only have triple glazing... See the Studio pages for more details or contact me.

I have been busying myself with a couple more new projects in the recent months. One is a four-piece unit called Zeus, with Tom Leary (fiddle), Dave Lambert (of Strawbs fame - guitar, vocals) and favourite bassist, Jon Davie. We did our debut gig (minus Dave) at the Earl's Court Beer Festival - a great event - in August 08, and a superb debut with Dave at the recent Strawbs 40th annual reunion gig at Twickenham Rugby Ground. More to come!
The other project is a 5-piece band called Denise Black's Loose Screw with good old pal, singer/guitarist Ben Grove, and sweet new pal, singer/actress Denise Black.
Listen to some tracks from our new album, First Fourteen.

Contact me to purchase a copy.

Also check out Big Sun, the new album I recorded with The Green House Band, which is either available direct from me or as a download from iTunes.

I have just taken part in a production of Macbeth at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, the first there ever to feature electric guitar. Ebows, heavy distortion and multiple delay all added to the Double Bubble, Toil and Trouble... What a racket!!!

Gryphon's reunion gig at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, on London's South Bank on Saturday June 6th, was a huge success. Watch out for a full report here soon. We performed material from the first two albums, in a largely acoustic format with the original four members, Richard Harvey, Brian Gulland, Dave Oberlé and myself, plus Jon Davie on bass, and long-term friend of the band, Graham Preskett assisting on an assortment of instruments.

The first work has commenced at Cannon Hill Studio for a new Gryphon album! It was indeed an auspicious day, the 11th February, when I made the first vocal recordings with Dave Oberlé on my rather serious new piece, Blood Runs Cool (working title). It was a great, creative and productive day with which we were both very pleased: the first of many, we trust...
Now Jon Davie has added some low notes, and I've coloured in a few guitar lines and chords, and the track is really beginning to fly.
Richard Harvey has discovered some 2" master tapes from the late 70s, which have been baked and digitised. Together with my contributions, these tracks could form the basis of the new album.

Recording continued recently of new arrangements of old tracks to be included in a forthcoming release. We plan to do aseries of gigs in Summer 2011.
 

There is a new interview with me, which you might like to look at, very well written by Clive Harvey, for Suite 101.
 

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