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I'VE BEEN A FEW THINGS AND DONE A FEW THINGS
I'VE TRAVELLED ON MANY ROADS
BUT WHERE IT ALL ENDS AND WHAT IT ALL MEANS
I'M BUGGERED IF I'LL EVER KNOW
A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY I was born in Australia in 1954 and came to England three years later. I left school with no qualifications in 1969. My first job was as a messenger boy at the Manchester Evening news. I then became a trainee projectionist at the Cinephone Cinema, also in Manchester. In1973 I went to Pontins near Morecambe as the chief projectionist and assistant stage manager. After three years there I was back in Manchester, working in the film dispatch unit at the BBC. I then moved up the road to the Palace theatre as a stagehand and assistant flyman (thats working all the scenery that hangs and flies up and down, before you ask!). Next stop was up the road again, to the Manchester Opera House as head flyman and deputy stage manager. In 1979 the theatre became a bingo hall for a while, so it was another trip up the road for me, to the props department at Granada Television. After brief spells at the Manchester Apollo and the Davenport theatre in Stockport, I worked as the crew boss at Manchesters legendary but now sadly demolished International 2. In between all that I've been a supermarket shelf stacker, farmer, car valeter, engineer, DJ, frozen fish sorter, warehouse labourer, fork lift truck driver, toilet cleaner, door to door salesman, van driver, minder, debt collector, courier, blacksmith, barman, bouncer, greaser, drunk, homeless, territorial army soldier, teddy boy and a member of a motorcycle gang.
Well we're all looking for something!!
Today, I'm a husband, father, grandfather and songwriter. And all that is where my songs come from. They're from the people I've met, the places I've been and the situations I've been in. It did surprise me though, how many of those people and situations would fit nicely into a Western song. No doubt a childhood diet of saturday matinee western's helped as well.
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