Musician, Producer, Songwriter, Entertainer, Developer, Aviator.

I work in varying fields of music, production and entertainment and have played guitar and many other musical instruments since I was 7 years old. I am completely self taught and have an excellent musical “ear”. I began recording aged 13 and have worked professionally on stage since the age of 16. As a singer, presenter, host, DJ, MC – You name it.

I am part of the production and remix team Riffs & Rays who have been responsible for producing dance orientated chart hits since 2003. There are some clips of R&R music on the Riffs & Rays web site, MySpace and of course on You Tube. Also the R&R FaceBook Group features some exclusive tracks.

I am the developer of the popular Multi Export Audio Pro (MEAP) windows application, for use with Steinberg audio software products, that enables you to export tracks (stems) one at a time, unattended.

I love travelling and I love learning. I was lucky enough to live and work in Dubai, UAE for 15 years. Dubai is a great hub to other parts of far east and enabled me to visit many distant parts of the world. Something I still like to do when time ( and finances) permit.

I teach guitar, bass and pretty much any other musical device, at various schools in and around home town of Leeds, UK.

I fly light aircraft. An interesting and taxing hobby. I am a flying member of Sherburn Aero Club and am hoping to gain my PPL (Private Pilot’s License) by summer 2010. Much of this depends on the weather here in England which is unreliable to say the least.

My company musiClone is responsible for re-creations of various well known pieces of music for use in cover versions and adverts. You wouldn’t know the music was a re-creation because it is virtually indistinguishable from the original, (unless required).

I perform live every weekend under the alias of Phil Alan. Sadly only using backing tracks at the moment. I do really miss the old live band days but I do all the backing myself, which I understand is quite rare these days.

I write songs and lyrics, music for film, TV and adverts, develop and test software and keep as active as possible in the field of IT. Including Blogging, Tweeting and web design. I also develop free software as much as possible. I find that coding these windows applications is very therapeutic and a welcome distraction from the music business.

I hope you enjoy having a little browse around my area of the world wide web.

Thanks for dropping by.