I still have a fairly busy job in education, so I'm only gigging here and there for the time being. 
I've performed with a variety of bands and musicians in the south-west over the last decade or so, and ​I'm now available for bookings as a solo performer for small- to medium-sized venues. I have a large songbook of folk-rock and country-blues covers, as well as my own songs.

My current show-reel (below) will give you a flavour of the vibe.

I have my own pa, and I can tilt each set more towards original songs, or more towards covers, depending on the venue and occasion.
​For a flavour of my original material, check out the links on the 'Recording Musician' page next door.
Please use the contact page on this website, or the contact details at the end of my show-reel, to make a booking.  

Performance History

2026  Winscombe Annual Village Show, Somerset
2026  The Cider Barn, Draycott, Sunday Session, as support for Two Days as a Chimp
2026  Garden party, Draycott, Somerset
2026  Redcliffe Caves, Bristol, as featured musician for 'I Know a Place' poetry evening 
2025  The Bay Horse Inn, Ashburton: with The Brer Rabbits and The Escapees
2025  Axe Vale Arts Centre: performing songs with Last Night's Debacle for the opening of Axe
           Vale Arts Centre, Axbridge
2024  Performing songs with The Escapees at Ashburton Arts Centre for the launch of Andy
          Brown's novel, The Midnight Mechanic ​(Sea Crow, 2024)
2023  Performing songs with Marc Woodward, and reading poems with Marc Woodward, Sally
           Flint, and Corinna Wagner for the Private View of 'Corinna Wagner: TerraOceanus', an
           exhibition at the Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton, Devon
2022  Bristol Grammar School (BGS) Library, Bristol: performing with Tom Biddle for Robert
           Massey's book launch
2022  Performing songs with Andy Brown, and reading poems with Andy Brown, Sally Flint, and
           Corinna Wagner for the Private View of 'Above and Below', an exhibition at Artisan
           Collective Gallery, Torquay 
2022  Performing songs with Andy Brown, and reading poems with Andy Brown, Sally Flint, and
           Corinna Wagner for the final evening of 'Unstable Ground', an exhibition at Studio KIND,
           Braunton, Devon
2021  Charlton Kings, Cheltenham: for the New Bohemians Christmas Party  
2020  Charlton Kings, Cheltenham: for New Bohemians: reading, and performing song-versions
           of poems
2019  The Cross Keys, Aldeburgh: performing song versions of poems from Cracked Skull
           Cinema (2019) for Poetry in Aldeburgh
2019  The Gallimaufry, Bristol: playing song versions of poems from Cracked Skull Cinema (2019)
2018  Beese's Riverside Bar, Bristol: with Lionel, Richie & the Wardrobe
2017  Beese's Riverside Bar, Bristol: with Lionel, Richie & the Wardrobe
2017  Beese's Riverside Bar, Bristol: two sixty-minute sets with Lionel, Richie & the Wardrobe
2016  Clevedon Pier: performing with Lionel, Richie & the Wardrobe as part of the grand
           opening of the pier's new Visitor Centre
2016  Canynyge Square, Clifton: performing with Lionel, Richie & the Wardrobe
2016  BGS Great Hall, Bristol: two 45-minute sets for an OB's reunion dinner 
2016  Chandos Road Festival: performing with Lionel, Richie & the Wardrobe
2016  BGS, Bristol: two 30-minute sets with Lionel, Richie & the Wardrobe for a Penguin book
           launch
2016  Bristol Folk House: launch of Vision Helmet (Maquette Press, 2016), and performing songs
           with Lionel, Richie & the Wardrobe
2015  St James Wine Vaults, Bath: accompanying my own reading by playing new songs for the
           first time in a while.
​2015  BGS, Bristol: two 30-minutes sets with Lionel, Richie & the Wardrobe to accompany a
​           publishing event in association with Penguin Books

I also record and perform as part of a duo - Brock and Hare - with fellow poet/songsmith Andy Brown. We're also available for bookings. You can check out our sound in all the usual places (see below).

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(Above) Brock and Hare at Artisan Collective Gallery, Torquay (2022)

 (Above) The Escapees at the Bay Horse Inn, Ashburton (2025)

​(Above) Promotional flier for the splendid - but now sadly disbanded - Lionel, Richie & the Wardrobe (circa 2017)