ABOUT

My earliest memories of music go back to the early 1960s — a radiogram in the living room and the car radio on family drives. My mother’s record collection became my first real education: Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Barbra Streisand, Dionne Warwick, Burt Bacharach, Shirley Bassey, Nat King Cole and Sammy Davis Jr.. Those records shaped my ear long before I understood what I was listening to.

Then everything changed.

1963 - (me aged 6 yrs) The arrival of The Beatles — “Love Me Do”, “Please Please Me” — was the moment music became personal. John, Paul, George and Ringo weren’t just a “group”; they became part of me. “Twist And Shout” e.p. was to be the first record I ever owned. At the cinema, seeing “A Hard Day’s Night” was defining moment. For 7 years, each song they released was better and more interesting than the previous. By the time I received Abbey Road for my 12th birthday, music had already taken hold for good.

Throughout the 60s and 70s I absorbed everything I could — the weekly Top 40, friends’ record collections, and a growing list of albums that would stay with me for life. Music became tied to memories, relationships and moments, embedding itself deeply and permanently.

A nylon-string guitar was a birthday gift at age 12. A brief and misguided start in classical lessons quickly gave way to teaching myself — not with any great technical mastery, but enough to become a committed rhythm player. What mattered more was the spark to write. Inspired almost entirely by Paul McCartney, I set out — somewhat naively — to try and write songs of that calibre. That pursuit never really left me.

Over the years I played solo gigs, worked in duos and bands, and spent a long stretch performing in a successful Beatles’-flavoured act. Alongside that, I kept chasing original music — forming bands, writing constantly, and learning the recording process from the ground up. Early studio experiences, including time in Los Angeles, opened the door to what was possible, and eventually led me to build my own home studio and develop a feel for arrangement and production.

Everything changed again in 2024.

I met producer Sean Carey at his studio in Camperdown, Sydney — just 400 metres from where I was born ! Sean connected with my songs, and what began as a few recordings grew into a two-year collaboration. Together, with some of Sydney’s finest session musicians, we recorded 23 original tracks.

That body of work has become a double album — Tip Of The Iceberg.

And to complete the journey, we’re taking it to Abbey Road Studios in London for mastering.

A full circle moment — from a 12-year-old holding Abbey Road… to walking through its doors with a record of my own.