About Myself

I am not going to tell you my age (but I'm over 21) I live in Brentford which is west of London where the Grand Union Canal meets the River Thames. I live close to London Museum of Water and Steam.

A quick search on the web soon reveals our famous football team (that's Soccer to those the other side of the puddle) Brentford Football Club known locally as The Bees. I'm not really a football fan but I had to find a Brentford related link :-) The Bees are much loved around here

It is said that Boadicea fought the Romans here there have been some other things happened since then like during the Civil war when the royalists got as close as they ever did to London but I will have to do some research. A lot of interesting Facts and Myths exist, it is reputed that Arthur Daily (of the BBC's Minder) was a poor bare footed nipper here.

I was born into the boomer genoration I have a brother who was born 18 months later, my parents then moved to Bracknell in Berkshire and here I have my earliest memories of childhood. We moved back to SE London (Welling) where at the age of 5 I started school at Hook Lane primary. I have a Sister who is some 7 years younger; I can remember her Birthday well as I had ridden my tricycle down the hill outside our house and into a brick gate post, as I was taken to the casualty department while my mother was taken to the maternity ward.
At the age of eleven we moved to Meopham in Kent and I was sent to Shotton Hall School in Shropshire I eventually left to start an engineering apprenticeship aged 17.

I served a craft apprenticeship at EQD Aquila and after a year working their I moved on to work for Rikadenki Mitsui in Chesington. After a few years I left there with several jobs to go to and chose to work for the European Space Agency in Holland. My career there was cut short and I had to return to England where after a collection of jobs in RF calibration & repair I found myself in the Rock and Roll industry.

Having worked for AvoLites I became self employed and have done work for many Sound and Lighting companies, I mainly build and repair touring equipment. I have toured with rock bands (and found it too much like hard work!) The best of this was autumn 1991 (I think it was) when I toured as Lighting designer for Hawkwind a band whose music has been a favourite of mine for over 50+ years!.

I studyed for a BSc in Artificial Intelegence at The University of Westminster which I found facinating and very chalenging.

I worked for a company providing exhibition production Production Science with whom I have made equipment for The Millennium Dome and many other exhibitions since.

I have also worked as a support actor (extra) in film and telivision the most fun being for the Star Wars franchise but have worked on many productions over the years.

For nearly 10 years I have worked at Neg Earth Lights where I fix mainly the never ending heap of broken cable and build specialized pieces of equipment. I have history working with Neg Earth Lights spanning back 40 years.