"I grew up on my parent's old vinyl records. I was obsessed with The Beatles early work. When I found out that they were the backing band for Tony Sheridan's 'My Bonnie' I played this track to death, and would sing it to anyone that would listen... especially my Aunty Bonnie.

Then I moved on to the Please Please Me record and it remains to this day one of my favourites. My mums best friend's name was "Anna', so needless to say she copped alot of me singing the song  'Anna' to her day in day out. And my crowd pleaser was "I Saw Her Standing There' - I would rip into this when any of my sister's friends came over, always a pleasure to sing to a new crowd as my family were totally over it. This is how I broke my arm when I was young as Leah chased me out of her party because I wouldn't stop singing the same 3 songs... I tripped in a panic and there you go...

Beatles aside, I was completely taken with the sound of these early recordings, tracks like 'Runaround Sue',  'Summertime Blues' and 'Johnny Be Goode' were so fun to sing, they just felt so natural. Then I discovered The Platters, The Ronettes, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding and then fast forward to the entire Dirty Dancing and Back To The Future soundtracks.

This style of music has always been my foundation, in the 90's I pushed it very firmly aside to focus on my 'grunge' phase, I never confessed to anyone that my tastes were living in the past, but now I feel I have come full circle and it's ok for me to just write what comes naturally. "

As a songwriter I feel that I have left no stone unturned, I find excitement in all kinds of styles, acoustic, rock and EDM, they all have their place and they are all fun to write and perform. This classic style of writing however, comes the most naturally to me, not only to write, but also to listen to. Simplicity, absolute simplicity. I tend to write myself in circles at times but it always comes back to the simplest and most obvious idea that I didn't see at first.  I'm very happy that I made this journey and have arrived safely back where i started but with more knowledge and confidence to execute it... just like in the alchemist"

I'm calling it 96% Love Song Book Part 1 because it is made up of mostly simple love songs. Due to the fact that The Superjesus material was always so hard to chart or learn I decided to make this record a song book with the booklet being all the words and simple chord changes so everyone can play along.

This record is for all of us to enjoy, not just to play on your stereo.

Whether this direction is relevant or not, is not something I am concerning myself with. I love it and it makes me happy. I have enjoyed this writing/ recording process more than any musical experience to date."