Making
Work of a different kind: the music I make, and photographs from over the years.
Electronic music I'm making. Off-Peak is the latest, and it's picking up from the 1990s.
Before Off-Peak
Before design, I spent about seven years as a professional musician in the 1990s, playing guitar in two bands.
A guitar band with a couple of real moments: NME Single of the Week in 1992, and "Bled Me Dry" on the soundtrack of Son In Law, the 1993 Pauly Shore film. We shared stages with Blur, Suede, Radiohead and The Pogues. Bandmate Alex Boucher later wrote a memoir of the era, Three And A Half Minutes of Fame (2024).
Not synth-pop, something more dangerous: closer to Duran Duran meeting Nine Inch Nails. Signed via EMI. The debut single "This Month's Epic" was later called one of the finest singles of the mid-1990s. The album One Million Smiles, produced by Steve Osborne and featuring Dave Formula (ex-Magazine), was shelved by EMI in 1996 and rescued by Org Records in 1998. Paul Oakenfold's Perfecto remix of "Coma Aroma" travelled well beyond the band, from Cream Live Two to Global Underground '96. We toured the UK, Europe and the US with The Human League and EMF, among others.
Then came multimedia studies, and the design career. Off-Peak is where it starts again.
Images from over the years.