I got a taste for music on a YTS know as “Liverpool Youth Music” while I was there, and later as “Musical Instruments and Technology Centre”, back in 1988. I started off playing drums but my drumming was utter pants. Rich Austin, bass player with The ‘Takers taught me to read music and to play bass. That got me hooked.

I had an Atari ST, Activision Music Studio and borrowed a keyboard. With this set up I wrote 100’s of tune – always expanding my theory of music, playing less and less. I eventually got my own keyboard and an Amiga. Then a Korg M1 and another Atari ST. By this time I’d recorded 1,000’s of tunes – mostly written using notation, but becoming more frequently by playing the keyboards.

In 1997 I wrote a complex piece of music – possibly my most technically and musically complex to date – and then I just stopped writing as though my talent had gone as far as it could.

In recent years my focus has been on learning 6 string guitar. In the last few years with the discovery of fruityloops and other various music programs I have started to dabble with writing again.

Ickabod Sane was a music project that ran from 1988 – 1997. It had many offshoots during that time – one of the major ones was the Steve Priest project.

Ickabod Sane has been dusted off and picked up from where it left off. The Steve Priest branch is still on hold for now.