LET ME INTRODUCE MYSELF
I am a musician and sound artist and visual artist, living in Bethesda, North Wales, with particular interests in improvisation, environmental recordings and live performance.
I have been involved with live music improvisation in North Wales since the 1980s, initially with radical noise-makers F.U.N. and in more recent years as a solo artist and part of free improvisation community group LLiFT.
I am the singer, guitar player and songwriter in the Cane Toads, a long running fixture on the North Wales live music scene. We play a mixture of our own songs and blues/roots with elements of psychedelia and occasional forays into free improvisation. We are still gigging regularly in North Wales. There’s always an up to date list on https://www.toadtunes.co.uk. Our latest album, Flowers in the Dark can be found on Bandcamp
I am one half of Hopewell Ink a spoken word and electronic music duo with Kathy Hopewell. You can find our albums on Hopewell Ink’s Bandcamp page
My sound and multimedia works have featured in exhibitions at Oriel Mon, The Royal Cambrian Academy and Gŵyl Afon Ogwen and have been played on BBC Radio 3. I can sometimes be found with synthesisers and computers at EMOM (Electronic Music Open Mic) events.
I have played in a variety of bands over the years including F.U.N. Burnham Burnham, Cut Tunes and Songlines. THE BIG BAD ARCHIVE contains recordings from some of these bands.
ARCHAEOLOGY
I have now mostly retired from my day job as an archaeologist at Gwynedd Archaeological Trust (now Heneb). I am the author of Roman Roads in North-West Wales and quite a few academic papers. I am the current recipient of the The G. T. Clark prize awarded by the Cambrian Archaeological Association for “the most distinguished published contributions to the study of the history and antiquities of Roman Wales and the Marches during the previous quinquennium”.
The study of ancient landscapes has definitely influenced my environment-based musical activities.
