WELCOME to my SoundClick page and to my unique brand of vaguely progressive-ish heavy rock (or is that vaguely heavy-ish progressive rock?).

No, there's no band here - just me on my ownsome. After years of trying and failing to become a rock star, I'm happy to just write and play my own songs these days.

Some of my songs are new compositions of mine and some are older ones written back when I played in bands such as Sanction, Dark Horse, Equinox and Night Circus.

I don't have a home recording studio. Just me, a couple of guitars, a couple of mics, a Line6 Toneport box and my gaming PC which doubles as a DAW. All in all, it's cost less than $500 to set-up and sounds it. I don't have the time, money, skills or patience to do better than that at the moment, but it works for me. I'm a competant guitarist but only a mediocre singer at best, and so I view these tracks more as demos than release-ready songs.

I compose on my guitar and in my head, but I structure and develop these ideas and songs using Noteworthy Composer. It's an odd choice, I know, but I've been using it for so long I'm just so damn used to it. Drum parts are worked out carefully on my kit, then painstakingly programmed in as MIDI data. Keyboards (where present) are done in a similar way. I'm not good enough at either to consider recording them direct. Bass, guitars and vocals are recorded through my TonePort straight into the PC. I use REAPER and a pile of free VSTs to knit it all together and it all sounds decent enough under the circumstances. Cheap and easy!