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I was born into a musical family.
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My parents are members of the legendary Ray Horner Combo and my brother is a music teacher, singer and composer.
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My sister played the piano, and even Biff, our faithful black Labrador dabbled on the harmonium in his younger days.
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Aged 11 I heard “Rockaway Beach” by The Ramones and my life was changed forever.
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I borrowed my dad’s short-scale bass guitar and joined local punk band No Reality, debuting at Starbeck Youth Club to some unimpressed skinheads.
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Next came the magnificently titled Dam Dam Dem Bilik Boots, who shocked the local youth with our Pop Group influenced anarchic punk-funk-jazz-abstract poetry cacophony.
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In 1983 I joined three bands with atrocious names, Andy Pandy and the Mad Teddies, Appiegolookie and Dual Funktion.
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I moved into The Sheriff of Dead Dog City’s flat in a converted church to learn the sacred arts of sleeping and songwriting.
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In the early 90’s I formed prog-punk band Shop, pushing vacuum cleaners around the stage in a return to my performance art roots.
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I paid the rent (occasionally) as bass player for local acts as well as forming spoof 70’s band Roger Scorpio and the Children of Love.
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In 1994 I joined Francis Dunnery on tour performing my poetry to bemused audiences across the world, culminating in a live album “One Night in Sauchiehall Street”.
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Played bass on some God-awful Christian albums.
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In 1999 I mutated into Joe Northern, formed Younger Younger 28’s, released the dark-pop masterpiece “Soap” on V2 Records, appeared on crap TV shows, played the main stage at the Glastonbury Festival and promptly disappeared back into obscurity.
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In an attempt to re-capture the innocence of childhood I recorded “Children Rule!” in 2002, as well as touring a collection of poetry, comic songs, primal noises, ominously called “Itchy Circus Odour”.
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