Like most people, the only really important thing in the world to me is my family I admit to some self-indulgence here by planning to include a page of pictures of me and some of my family. Hey, if you don't like them, you'll always be able to use the "back" button on your browser.

Manchester is the greatest town in England. No arguments about this one. If you try this site (Virtual Manchester), you'll see that we even have a page for some of the excellent bands who have come from our wonderful city, including the Buzzcocks, 808 State, Joy Division. Morrissey, New Order, Oasis and the Stone Roses. There's a link to a homepage for every one of them from the Manchester bands site.

You will understand that I was somewhat disillusioned to see that my own former band ("THE DAZE", early-1980s purveyors of fine Clash rip-offs) were not mentioned in the listing, but you can see a photo of me on stage right here.

We did make one single, called "DEEP SOUTH", a scathing political statement, which could have been a bit of a classic if it hadn't actually been crap.

The Daze did lots of gigs, supported a few moderately well-known bands of the time (including The Alarm and Happy Mondays) but finally went back to their respective garages and bedrooms in the mid-1980s.

The "DEEP SOUTH" single is not available to ANYONE at all, but for some reason yet to be fully explained, The Daze now have their own homepage which is available by clicking here.