Hi Guys!

I am British but currently live in Iceland and I am 33 years old. I look a lot like Kermit and I have just signed up today! I have a feeling I could and will most likely will be a big star within the next five years, so please feel free to add me to social media so you can say you knew me from the beginning.

We share common ground here and I'm looking forward to being part of the family, before I out grow it and become bigger than the site itself! I will never forget you all :P

Despite a newly found self esteem, this is all of course said tongue firmly in cheek. On a serious note, below my details is a brief and honest backstory as to how I found myself looking forward with confidence as opposed to staring down at the bottom of a bottle which preferably had white wine in it.

Gimme a shout with your details too if you want, so we can connect and share the journey!

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I have struggled with a dependancy to alcohol for all of my adult life. It became all consuming around five years ago so I was forced to put the guitar down to the floor along with many other things that meant anything to me.

It's always good to hook the attention from the outset innit!? Maybe I will lose you soon but If I can, I would like to share with you a story that I now feel at absolute peace with.

During my teen life, I idolised the 'backstreet boys' and 'Nsync'. I wanted to look and move like Justin. I practiced the dance routines in my bedroom, straightened my hair and even bleached it. What were the chances of me being able to form a boy band in 2002 in Hull? Hell knows I tried - but I'm digressing.

From an even younger age, I think I have always wanted to perform in any way I could but I am aware I have always battled with low self esteem so it seemed the only way I could channel this energy was by establishing myself as the class clown.

This didn't help anyone but I was clearly unimpressionable and I showed next to know signs of knowing how to assert myself correctly. Many believed in me but I wasn't ready to understand.

When I was 20, I left home and worked my first ski season in France. I left my bubblegum pop at home unintentionally and found other artists who helped bridge the gap to a more organic sound. Athlete, Keane, The Rasmus, Crowded House, Thirteen Senses & The Killers. I must have known I had to open my mind a bit.

I don't think i've ever really thought about it until this very moment but perhaps I have always wanted to 'do something' with music and showcase it. Upon returning from the first stint away from home, I was inspired to buy a guitar. I attempted to learn how to play so I could become a 'singer/songwriter'. I remember that being my aspiration at the time.

As I sit here now, I am unsure of whether I am more comfortable with being the centre of attention or sat in the corner of the room minding my own business. I am still trying to find my place within a room full of strangers and also within a room full of people I am familiar with.

All I know is that whatever I get up to, I feel more comfortable with it by the day.

After picking up the guitar, I believe it became the only thing I ever showed any focus or persistence with and even through all the manic, tempestuous & turbulent years throughout my twenties, I managed to learn the absolute basics of the fret board. Along with this and only the ounce of passion and endeavour I could squeeze out of myself at the time, I even managed to write and record a few OK songs with my extremely average and limited technical abilities.

I would consider myself only a 'bedroom guitarist' and I never passed the beginner level of guitar playing and I stopped playing altogether many years ago as an effect of the aforementioned affliction engulfing me entirely. I had bigger fish to fry. Many big fucking fish.

Three years ago, I held my hands up to my family and friends and gestured to seek help. After a brief relapse, I am now just over two years sober and I write today really only to mention that I am bringing together the songs I wrote when I was lost and I am putting them together to form a first album.

Some of you may have noticed that I have 'put out' debut albums before. I was never happy with my debut projects until now so this is the official and last 'debut album'. I have grown to resent the words 'debut album'. I really don't know why I keep typing them. I am reluctantly proud of this project but I am glad to see the back of it. I still find it difficult to listen to but I don't want to throw it away. I want it there for motivation. I want it there as a finished project to remind me of where I have come from.

So with constant unwavering help musically through the years from Mark Wardale & with brand new fresh mind blowing support and fantastic art skills from Bruno Cavellec Art, I will release 'This Wooden Ship' In January, 2018. It's coming to Spotify, itunes, amazon music and other such platforms. There will even be a physical version available too for those die hard fans. If you are lucky, I will even sign it;) Please only form an orderly queue! Hold tight for further information on release date.

I am not a big fan of my music as it stands. I have never been able to express myself how I have truly wished to with my music. A more accurate reflection of myself is still yet to be heard. I have recently fixed my old guitar and bought some recording equipment which I shall be taking to Iceland for nine months next year. Now that I have sailed away out of what feels like the worst of the storm, I am hungry to create and the plan is to pick up where I left off around 10 years ago and continue to learn more about the guitar and experiment with it and some equipment I collected.

I plan to Inform myself in an attempt to become a more competent guitar player and musician. When I am ready, I will write, play, sing and record once again. As I will undoubtedly go from strength to strength, It will be interesting for me to see what comes out. I am intrigued.

The difficult second album? I accept the challenge with the purest of pleasures. Maybe I will bring it to the stage too.

I believe that would be a dream.