The Golgotha Outlaws actually appear in the Bible I believe, Crucified on the crosses next to Jesus (I guess I'm now waiting for the corrective email to tell me I got that one wrong) The name sounds pretty good anyhow, so there it is. The remix name of Core Confusion comes from the confusions in me head. Read my Live Journal Blog at http://js-confusion.livejournal.com and you'll start to get some ideas about how my head works...

Used to play live at uni, long time ago now. Best moment was the open tallent night. Having a whole crown chanting for you when you're playing your own material is a serious rush. Cant beat it. DOne some Djing more recently, Pubs and things like that. Not really in the nightclub league for that kind of thing. As a rule of thumb whenever I'm writing a song the live performance element is always at the back of my mind. The whole down side to electronica is that its so easy to write stuff that cant be played live. I really dont like that. Music is a rush that needs to be spontaneous.

The internet is great for a kind of try-before-you-buy. Loads of publicity for free but I do feel concerned about the way people can be ripped off as artists. Its all very well for those who are millionaires but what about the newcomers where every penny counts? Honnesty is the greatest virtue, theft is theft but sampling is legal!

It would be a kind of sell out but at the ned of the day I think I've sold out a lot already, yeah I'd do it why not. I wouldnt do it for the money primarily, it would be more about having my music hear by the masses.

Learned to play keyboards and paino a school as nipper and started to push the boundaries of what could be done a a basic domestic kids keboard. When I went to college I met other like minded people and together we started a technical music AS level as a complimentary study. That taught me all about programming and the technicalities of it all (back in the day when an Atari 1024ST and a copy of Notater Alpha ruled).

Going on to university I had already accumilated a couple of pieces of reasonable hardware and started to write my own, fairly crude stuff on computer, working mainly in Cakewalk.

Then at univeristy in a shared house I met a guy called Toby who introduced me to a copy of Fasttracker II and it was like the lights went on. Overnight my ideas suddenly sounded much more like I wanted them to. Still fairly basic software but it gave me a chance to get my music out there. I would spend most weeks working on a piece and then burn it to CD for a firend of mine to play at the Uni Bar on the Saturday night. After a few successful compositions it was suggested that I should perform at the open tallent night. I did as suggested and the response was fairly good. A few more performances later and I had a small following.

I started putting my Mod files onto Modarchive.com and got some good feedback from there which helped me develop.

After univeristy I met Rob Wilkin (band name FORE / FORE HOOF) whils working in a toy shop temporarily and he introduced me to many other programmes for creation and a new way of working. It was a fair exchange tho, we did a few co-op tracks together and had some good results, one of which will be available for download here.

Since then I've moved on musically and so it seemed fitting to change the name uinder which I work, so The Golgotha Outlaws were born

Oldschool Hardcore,Early House,Hard House,Inner City,DJ Slipmatt, Ratpack, drum n bass, trance, paul van dyk, chemical bothers, sl2

There is an old slate mining town in Wales called Blaenau Ffestiniog and there are some mountains at the back where they tipped the old slate. At the top of one of these mountains is a huge lake. It is the most quiet and peaceful place I know. After University I went travelling for a couple of months with a very good friend of mine. It was at this lake that I had what I can only describe as the most powerful religious experience I could ever deam of having. I was luck enough to share it with someone I care about very deeply and I think it has formed the basis for who I now am as a person

Roland EG101
Korg Microkorg
Yamaha PSS51
Yamaha PSS680
Yamaha PSS460
Yamaha PSR420
Midipro MX1
Various soft synths and software packages

I write music for me, its my life. I never feel offended if you dont like hat I've written - taste is subjective and I have written some crap in my time. I like feedback though. Tell me why you like / dont like my work and it helps me get new ideas.