My passion for music has been a huge driving force and influence in my life. When I was 14 I first picked up a pair of drumsticks, and since then I have performed over 500 gigs, and had many recording sessions.
Last week Vinny, Martin and myself went down to London to meet Janice Long for a live session and interview on BBC Radio 2.
There's a listen again link (only available for the next couple of days):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lxjsw#synopsis
I've been doing a bit of recording recently, last Monday I recorded two tracks by Duelling Pistols (whose drummer Mike Lambert also delivers music sessions with me for The Bridge), and tonight I am to record a song by One English Pound.
I will post the results as soon as bands are happy with mixes etc!
The Preston-based Bridge Centre and Grange Park Gardens provide support to people with varying degrees of mental ill health, helping them to become fully integrated into mainstream society.
Alongside The Bridge Centre I have been leading (with my colleague and fellow percussionist Mike Lambert) a weekly music session. This is extremely rewarding work, initially we started as a percussion workshop but after a couple of weeks I picked up the guitar and now we have a few songs that we all sing together. The last session we performed Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen (made famous by Jeff Buckley).
There are five sessions left, and we are going to finish with a recording session, giving CDs to everyone who attends the session. Hopefully we will run this or a similar session in the future.
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