Story
2010
So far I think this year is definately the year I came back to life. A few gigs with The Dying Animals (Andrew Howard, Adam Bishop, Ade Dacre and myself), lots of gigs with Welcome To Peepworld (Fi McFall, Bert Audubert, Nick Gibson and myself) and a few gigs so far with Cirrus (Claudia Gibson, Lisa Fitzgibbon and myself). More gigs this year than in the previous five I reckon!
2009
Started to wake up the musical part of my brain a bit more now that our youngest is past his second birthday and I can start to see the light at the end of the tunnel...
...then my friend Kate Garrett sadly died and I think this will turn out to be the most significant event of 2009, it's hit me somewhere in the foundations...
2008
Did some gigs with The Dying Animals and a bit of work on my own stuff, but the most important thing I did was to record and mix Claudia Gibson's Highwire CD.
2007
More sleepless nights thanks to the young man. The Dying Animals do their first gig as a four piece at the Exeter Hall pub in Oxford. We rock again and suitably inspired return to writing some more evil tunes...
2006
Somewhere during this year, The Dying Animals manage to pick up another guitarist , Adam Bishop, and the three become 4. Things are looking up. Towards the end of the year we record three songs at Courtyard in Sutton Courtney, Oxfordshire. We rock! Then the results of getting Claud up the pregnant again materialize and our son Gabriel (who is going to be a drummer in a rock band) is born. He rocks too, likes a bit of Led Zeppelin in the small hours.
2005
The Dying Animals kind of come to a standstill amidst all three of us having too much need to focus on supporting our families and too many rehearsals getting cancelled. It was much easier when we rehearsed at Andrew's house, but sadly he had to move and that option was no longer available. A brief moment of efficiency occurs and we manage a gig in December, but then it peters out again.
2003
Lot's of baby pooh! Andrew Howard and myself form The Dying Animals, a nasty greebo punk entity, and we are soon joined by another like minded idiot Ade Dacre. I think we did our first gig later in the year in Reading, but I can't remember for sure, it may have been the next year
2002
Having a little break from writing, but record one song, "Soak It In" with Claud and I finally get around to building a previous version of this website. Somehow get pressganged into singing on and promoting a World Cup single "World Cup In Our Hands" as part of People United with the likes of Julian Sharples, Ady Davey and Justing Gibson. What a laugh and we did actually end up on twelly with the real World Cup in our hands at one point even if England never got hold of it. Towards the end of the year Claud gives birth to our daughter Violet (who is going to be a singer in a rock band) and the three of us disappear into a black hole for a while.
2001
Having moved to Oxford, I finish Skeletons, concentrate on developing my internet design business, have the idea for this website and marry Claudia Holt.
2000
After a long haul similar to most self funded album projects, Kate Garrett's album "Vertigo" is finally mixed and I move back to my home county of Cornwall for the rest of the year. Here I set out to write more songs for Skeletons and, as an antidote to the "proper" recording I had been involved in, decide to record them without involving other people (as much as possible) and as an experiment in simplicity and imperfection. These are the recordings you will find on the album.
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