It started the first time I heard the Beatles on my dad’s headphones…the frenzied excitement of ‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand’, the wild abandon of ‘Twist and Shout’.   Then came ‘She loves you’, ‘No Reply’ and ‘You’re gonna love that girl. The stories these tunes told, consumed me. I would look at these four lads smiling back at me the on vinyl covers. They had captured something as close to magic and truth as you could get. I was hooked.   So, I learned how to play the guitar just to write my own stuff. Try and make my own magic and catch it...bottle it.   Over time, the songs became more original, more truthful, less influenced and more me. One day, I realised I had written so many songs that I may die without anybody ever hearing all of them; even If I started recording tomorrow!   Then I wrote about my son and I wasn’t throwing these to one side. What I felt for him was here to stay which made these tunes timeless! These two moments - me dying without getting a song out there and the birth of my son gave me the two-handed push I needed to just get the songs out there hopefully just one of these songs has a bit of magic for you!