About

I used to be a solicitor specialising in alcohol and entertainment licensing.  I jumped ship on 8 June 2007 and now do the following:

Created in Birmingham - I took over the day-to-day running of this award-winning blog in May 2008.  I cover anything that’s arty or creative in Birmingham.

Cquestrate - I’m the project and community manager for a very exciting project that’s trying to develop a solution to climate change using an open source method.  For this, I’m employed by Maverick TV for whom I’ve also worked on Ideas For Life, Embarrasssing Illnesses and 4Homes.

Osiris Licensing - I still do some licensing work, although I’m quite choosy about which instructions I take.

Culturedeluxe Limited - I’m a director of this small, independent record label.

I’m a big fan of live music and feed my habit with free tickets to gigs in exchange for reviews which have been published on Culturedeluxe, Birmingham Live and in the magazine Blues Matters.

I’ve also blogged for Fierce , the New Generation Arts Festival and the Birmingham Post.  I’m always open to offers in this area.

So much for work…

I play a lot of football but it’s freestyle football tricks that I really love. The best part of working from home is being able to step into the back garden for 5 minutes to stretch my legs and practice a few tricks.

I try to get away snowboarding every year if poss, I’d like my French & Spanish to be as good as they were when I was 18, I watch too much YouTube, The Wire is amazing, I DJ every now and then when I grow up I would like to be a fireman.