Rat Strikes Back

Derwood, my part in his success
By the time I'd figured out the Cubase manual well enough to record properly, Derwood had arrived. We played, produced & engineered a lot of tracks together. Some of it as the Island Monkeys and some of it for SDS, while in return I laid down a few drum tracks for the Moon Dog albums. It was around the same time that I began to produce and inadvertently become a patron/sponsor and a fan of the mighty Flipron. A once local band that I inadvertently discovered through Arch 8. They can't get arrested, but I remain optimistic that one day someone with some taste and good sense will sign them. As well as all the above, Sam Dodson from seminal world dance outfit Loop Guru moved into my street and, after a chance meeting and a few too many drinks, we decided to make a virtual album under the name Slipper. The bet was whether or not it was possible to make an album solely by file transfers between our two attics within the Brentford Triangle. This was of course without any of the artists ever performing at the same time or place. We won the bet and 'Invisible Movies' was later released on the Aphex Twin's Rephlex label, and received critical acclaim in the avant-garde jazz world (honest). To date, none of the participating members of Slipper have yet to consciously exist in the same time and space.

Nosferatu
During the same couple of years, I met up with and played a few sessions for Gothic soul boys Nosferatu. They're a good bunch as far as the undead go, but I did manage to slice through a nerve/tendon in my thumb while whittling a precautionary stake.

'Where to now Guv?'
Poking around the soft underbelly of the internet was an inevitable place for me to end up, especially with a severed thumb and plenty of spare time. Once I'd found out how to run an independent server, I came up with a useful concept and then launched The Global-Audio-Foundation. This is a members only community server, designed for musos to trade performances, ideas, gossip and generate a few quid for themselves. It's been running for over a year now, and even though I neglect it terribly, it still does everything it's supposed to.