Self taught musician with writing and performance credits on a range of records across many labels (mostly independent) spanning the last 20 years.
I am also a qualified FE lecturer and Course Leader in Music at Reading College and have been teaching across FE and HE for 13 years but am keen to move into other music related career fields of employment.
I formed Bandonimusic in 2009. Bandonimusic provide music publishing, composition, performance and recording services.
I play Drums, Percussion, Bass, Guitar, Keys, Synth/Piano, Turntables. I use a range of production tools and am also a songwriter across a range of genres.
Bands
Mother Earth - Acid Jazz Records
Funkshone - Skyline Recordings/P-Vine Japan - 9 piece Funk and Soul band
The Craig Charles Fantasy Funk Band - 12 piece Funk and Soul band
The Ambassadors - 5 piece Funk/Soul/Jazz Band
I also have extensive broadcast experience as a presenter working on award winning college radio station Blast1386.
Previous Clients & Labels I have worked with include:
Monkey Funk, Acid Jazz, Ninja Tune, Island Records (US), Junior Boys Own, Skyline Recordings, P-vine (Japan), Delicious Digital, Freestyle Records, KayDee Records (US) Wax Poetics Magazine, Floridita Soho (D&D), Medusa Management, Wayne hemmingway, Baroque Records, Composure, CLF Art Cafe, Mostly Jazz Festival, Satta Outside, Danson Fectival, CH4, BBC Radio 6, BBC Radio 2, Proms in the Park, Glastonbury Festival, The Big Chill Bar/Festival, Bingley Music Live, Hippodrome Casino, Boisdale Canary Wharf (Party Jazz), amongst many others.
Specialties: writing, performing producing records across a range of genres such as Funk, Soul, Jazz, Hip Hop, Ambient, Dance. DJing, MIDI Programming and Sequencing, Live performance, Recreations, Sessions (Drums, Perc, Guitar, Bass, Keys & Turntables). Cubase, Reason, Logic tuition, FE Teaching in the fields of Music Business, Computer music production, improvising music and music performance. CRB Checked and fully qualified with Cert Ed.
I am available for sessions, production, remixes and DJ work. please send me a message if you have any questions and thanks for reading this!