This is probably going to sound like one of those short paragraphs at the beginning of a novel that gives away surprisingly little about the author. However, I'll do my best to keep it real.

Well, I hail from the North East, South Shields to be precise. I was good at English at school (which is handy when you live in England!). I was on the school football team for most of my teenage years (I was either centre half or right back). However, I had to give up as the matches were really early on a Saturday morning and I was always a bit hung over because the big disco was at the YMCA on a Friday night.

When I was fourteen I took up two things which I'm still doing to this day.  One was the guitar and one was tennis. My mum got me a music teacher and over many years I learned how to fingerpick Greensleeves. Around this time I started to go to the Newcastle City Hall with my sister to see all sorts of cool bands - Roxy Music, Elton John, Lou Reed etc.

I went to Salford University and studied Biochemistry (I've no idea why!).