Just pondering musical influences and heritage; from learning the piano at an early age to playing trumpet in a Brass band in Belfast, to my first Bush Band at Uni in West Aussie (The Bonza Creek Bush Band) and now on a few decades to new frontiers. Almost forgot about a recent St Patrick’s Day gig, that went well despite challenges with live audio in an unforgiving pub environment.

As for playing and songwriting influences, these range form acoustic to Celtic punk and include the Dubliners, Pogues, Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphy’s for Irish and the Bushwhackers, The Rumjacks and sundry others for Aussie material.