Growing up in a music-orientated family, I picked up the piano when I was eleven years old and soon found a growing interest in music. I was inspired by my dad as well as both of my uncles to pick up the guitar at the age of fourteen, my uncle taught me the basic chord shapes and soon we started our own family band with my gramps on the drum kit. We would call ourselves “Blinded Lies” and have a jam from time to time. I would soon find my passion for the bass guitar and practise four hours a day in my bedroom to bands such as; Metallica, Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, Bon Jovi, Chuck Berry.
Throughout these years I started to question more and more what other layers to music could be discovered. When I was fifteen, my mum took me to see the Bon Jovi Experience, which was signed by Jon Bon Jovi himself, it was there I would discover my drive for live sound. After finishing my higher education with an A in music I set out to become a production engineer because I wanted to understand the technology behind a song that can make people feel emotion. How does it achieve this?
I volunteered throughout school, setting up PA systems for various charity events that my head music tutor would organise. We toured Austria in 2018 as well as Madrid in 2019, raising money for the elderly homes, homelessness, and school funding. I would take to the stage as a bass player and assist with live sound. My first front of house gig was at my local town’s yearly festival show in 2018 (which was a result of pestering my head music tutor, he accepted and didn’t regret that he did!).