Still around.
Still playing.
Still making things sound better.
Musician, Audio Engineer, occasional small-room PA wrangler, and long-time resident of the overlap between songs, stages, and speakers. This isn’t a sales pitch ... it's just a small, quiet corner of the internet.
About
For a long stretch, live sound was a major part of life. I had the van, the PA, the light show, the load-ins, the load-outs, the late finishes, the early starts, and all the usual joy and nonsense that comes with trying to make live music work in real rooms.
When COVID hit, I sold the van and most of the larger PA and never really looked back. That chapter had a good run.
These days things are smaller, lighter, and a fair bit more selective. I’m still active, still involved, and still out and about ... just not trying to turn this into a bigger business.
Music life
At heart, I’m a drummer, a working musician. That’s the thread running through all of it.
Some people build brands. I seem to have built a life made of songs, gigs, rehearsals, gear, stories, and the ongoing art of keeping all the moving parts vaguely pointed in the same direction.
Music is a big part of everyday life. Some of it happens on stage, some of it happens at home, and some of it quietly waits in the background until the next thing appears.
I mean, I can't just stop cold turkey, right?
I can be the guy you can call on a Wednesday afternoon for a trio covers gig on a Friday night, and if I'm available, I see you at the gig ... sticks in hand, ego in check, music history in muscle memory.
I'm always ready to knock out the greatest of generic rock tunes ever performed in Sydney venues.
Sound life
I still know my way around a PA, a stage plot, a difficult room, a stubborn DI, and the eternal mystery of why something that worked perfectly at soundcheck has chosen violence by downbeat.
I no longer run a big live sound rig, and I’m not actively looking to grow one. But I still keep enough gear around for smaller events and band setups where a sensible, human-scale system is what’s needed.
Current setup
Small vocal gigs. Duos. Trios. The occasional 4–5 piece band. Smaller venues. Smaller expectations. Considerably less heavy lifting.
Enough PA for rooms in the 100–200 person range. Enough experience to know what matters. Enough restraint not to pretend everything needs to become a business plan.
Shed Studio
I used to have my studio: Shed Studio.
Then we knocked down the house and rebuilt, and the studio became storage. Once we moved back in, and after while, it became a games room.
So the studio is gone, but the shed remains eternal.
That feels like a decent summary of life in music and audio: things evolve, names disappear, rooms change purpose ... but something of the original idea tends to stick around.
The music never really went away. It just changed shape.
Years in live sound tend to leave that part of the brain permanently switched on.
Active, capable, and around ... just not chasing new business for the sake of it. I'm busy enough to be selective to opportunities that attract me.
Contact
Why are we still here? Well, this domain exists as a quiet corner of the internet that still belongs to us.
If you know me already, you will already know how to get in touch.
If you’ve arrived here as part of an automated new-business-development campaign, you can safely assume I’m not currently looking to optimise, scale, accelerate, transform, disrupt, or circle back.