Music Creativity History

I have been in 6 bands, fronted 5, and played in 2 countries, but as of right now, thanks to the pandemic I haven’t been on stage in 2 years and that’s starting to bite. I’m currently working on a new project of 2 albums and scouting for band members. Let’s see what happens…

I started singing and dancing at 6; after school clubs and village hall events. I began violin lessons at 9 with my best friend and was in an orchestra and choir for 3 years. I got a keyboard for my 12th birthday and was obsessed with the soundbank of electronic noises. I bought a guitar at 15 thanks to the influence of the current friend circle and painstakingly learnt many Iron Maiden riffs without learning a single chord. I studied music for 6 years obtaining qualifications in Music, Music Theory, Music Technology, Sound Engineering and Music Production.

I worked as a sound engineer and roadie for a few years, which was mostly corporate events like employee awards ceremonies (soul-destroying) and paid my dues in a warehouse for a global audio-visual equipment rental company (even more so). I spent an entire summer PAT testing over 5000 items of electronics and cables and decided this wasn’t what I wanted for the rest of my life!

I was in a local Leicester band playing electric violin for a few years with my at-the-time husband who was the drummer. It’s a long story (of course) but when I filed for divorce I knew I couldn’t stay in the band.

Then there’s a big section in the middle here where my body modification business went big internationally and I got a bit infamous; got my face on TV a bunch then ended up with 3 convictions for crimes I didn’t commit. Oh and a global pandemic.

So fast forward through all that and I’m living in Spain and I’m back doing music things again; lots of covers and tributes, almost exclusively live performances for tourists. But life in post-pandemic Spain was looking bleak (as bleak as everywhere else) and I had to make a critical decision for stability and sanity and so I moved back to the UK to be with family mid 2022. 

Currently doing music things in my brother’s shed..