Born in London in 1976
got way into Beatniks & Mahler & Blake
sung in a funk band,drummed in a brass band
wrote first song while revising in library
wished to paint like Bacon or Chagall
and see like Bosch, heard Dylan & Waits & 
Bowie, scraped a literature degree, ran 
to Languedocian refuge of inspiration
learnt guitar, sang French & Catalan songs
alongside Whiskey In The Jar and now moves
from exile to the kingdom