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interview
soon > Audio of BBC Radio Merseyside Interview
soon > Audio of in sesson and interview with All FM
 "I am always very pleased to be invited and am always available for interview / opinion / playing live in session, for TV, radio and online promotion. thank you, Darren :-)"
on writing and live performance:
"It’s through live performance, helped by a good dose of confidence and desire, that I share some of my most personal experiences. Not all; there are some things I remain very uncomfortable with, and I need to keep those to myself, at least for the time being ... taking original songs into dog-rough jukebox drinking dens and coming
out with real respect from real people is cutting edge success in
my book ... there's a stigma attached to poetic
lyrics and intricate musicianship that needs to be challenged" |
on music therapy and special needs:
"Children are first and foremost children, so by nature they will pick something up with a passion, and with equal passion walk away, dismiss it and in some cases destroy it ... you are after all providing music as a support service to a life-plan directed by health care and welfare professionals, so they will, you hope, ultimately see positive results in your work."
on the issue of anti-war songs:
"If anything, it's a song that has changed the perception of those who
have seen me play over the years. I am now seen as a political songwriter,
even a "militant" as one writer in a Manchester magazine suggested.
How someone expressing anti-war sentiments can be described as a militant
is beyond me, but it shows how the opinions of the fashion police have
been allowed to suppress human emotion and compassion, without so much
as a 'wtf' from the vast majority of people reading it"
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