The epitome of generosity when it comes to giving a fine performance, with
a quirky poetic style that verges on satirical folk (rap). Earned an apprenticeship through performing in shady low life
bands, (including the Slopstones, described by Peracles as 'over grown harmonious lions locked in a cave') he now
continues to be small fry in a vast ocean of talent where in the small rock
pool, there is no bigger starfish...
Recorded on albums with unrecognised
and sometimes invisible artists, later embarked on a solo pathway producing obscure cds such as ; ‘Show down on Shed
Street’ (a tale of two barbers) ‘Strings on Fire,’ (guitar instrumentals) ‘Load O’Mischief’
(nutty as a fruit cake!) and the soon to be released;-..... ‘Misfit’.
The poignant material covers
a broad range of subjects including Whinney Hill’, (a local mining disaster) , Fallen of the Day (the story of an Accrington
Pal) and the Big Issue Seller to name but a few... Much of the material has been broadcasted on BBC Radio Merseyside, BBC
Radio Lancashire, Radio Birmingham and out on t'world wide web, but to no avail.
Appearances include Fylde
Folk Festival, (with Dylan appearing in the song writers workshop for the last three years), Middlewich Folk Festival, the
Oswaldtwistle Folk Festivals, Pubs and Folk Clubs including charity functions and after dinner conference entertainment. The
material ranges from tales of a battle of two barbers in a set curiously entitled ‘Show Down on Shed Street’,
to the wild antics of the Ventolin inhaler in, ‘Wiffer in my pocket’
'He ploughs a furrow
of individual quirkiness that makes life so interesting and appealing....'