Born 1955 :Cumbria: UK

1973: Carlisle Art School. Foundation Year

1974-77: Sunderland School of Art and design. BA (hons)

2002-2004 : Newcastle University. MA Creative Music Technology.


Studied Modern Classical Avant Garde Composition at Sunderland University under David Pinder. Also studied printmaking under Dave Gormley.
Worked with friends (Ian McCutcheon and Partick Brophy)making eclectic music focused around the tecchniques pioneered by the German groups such as Can and Faust.

Co-Founded the influential music collective Zoviet France in 1979 and went on to produce and perform in most of their early, highly regarded, works . Stayed with ZF for 12 years and left in 1992 to work on my own as Rapoon and collaborate with others.

Concurrently I worked at Newcastle's Chalotte Press Print Workshop.(1977-1994) I taught print workshops in Etching and Lithography as well as doing my own work. Here most of the early Zf covers were concieved and printed.

Also concurrently I began to work in the Audio Visual industry (1979-1994) both full time and freelance. Here I learned video editing and rostrum camera work as well as other graphic techniques and staging and lighting.

Returned to Higher Level Education in 2002 to study Creative Music Technology at Newcastle University.
I wanted to gain a formal qualification in music for my own satisfaction and for the challenge of it.
Taught undergradutes and post graduates modern composition techniques using recording and sequencing software.

Studied under Dr. Jonny Clark and Dr.Matt Sansom.

Am saving up to do a Ph D.