Made in Derby in Brian Clough streets. Brother to a beautiful brother. Divorce. Marriage. Gran three doors up. Laughter. In a yellow Ford Capri. With a bowl cut.

Comprehensively Schooled. BMX mad. In love with The Face, Bowie, Marc Almond, The Smiths. Learned to sew, so customised clothes. Made endless mixtapes. For endless crushes. Sexual awakening and sexual experiments. Shyness. Shame. Explored worlds. Anaïs Nin. Christopher Isherwood. Georges Bataille. Wrote for days.

To London and Goldsmiths College. Anthropology & Communications. Whirl-Y-Gigged and gigged and raved. Aciiiiid and ambient DJ’ing. Time for work. Music Video at Propaganda Films. Ran, PA’d, researched, wrote. Oasis. U2. Bjork. Tricky… lots of Stéphane Sednaoui. Then Chris Cunningham. Then Music Video at Virgin Records (with Carole BF). Spice Girls, Massive Attack, Chemical Brothers, The Verve, Bowie… Jonathan Glazer, Michel Gondry, Walter Stern… (Co)commissioning, writing, directing. First snog with life partner in car park after The Brits, as the Internet ate the world beneath our feet. All change please.

To The Mill as Colour Grading EP. Shane Meadows films and ‘Dr Who’ and adverts galore. The iPhone launched so created the Mill Colour app. Then co-created Mill Digital (The Mill pointed at the Internet.) Worked with Audi, Absolut. Compare the Meerkat, Sega, Redgate Software, Doritos… Pioneering interactive and experiential story. Multiple Grand Prix wins. Nominated for Digital Agency of the Year. Financial(s) crash(ed). Wheels came off. Became a father twice. Beautiful. Lucky. Reflux.

To Rattling Stick in its heyday with beautiful Ringan Ledwidge (RIP). Head of Original, Music & Branded Content. ‘Nureyev’ feature doc. ‘Saints of Somewhere’ podcast series. ‘How to Stop a Recurring Dream’ feature film with joyous Ed Morris. Nike, Burberry, Vogue, Wired. Massive Attack, Battlebox. Young Fathers. Ibeyi… Redundancy. Total darkness. Blessing. CAME OUT AS CREATIVE SELF. Worked with Burberry. Acne. BTDT (Google, iHeart, AdCouncil, Makers Mark, Ben & Jerry’s…and on and on.) Founded Belonging Studio. Became Adoreum creative partner. Horizons exponentially expanded. Life 2.0.

Nurtured inner-child (with bowl cut). Thanks Tom Fortes-Mayer. Found self-acceptance. And meditation. And Forest bathing. Collabs with Robert Del Naja, Loren Denis, TRAKTOR, Matt Holyoak, GentleForces. Partnering David Alberts (and Citizens’ Assemblies.) Met Sam Conniff and Katherine Templar-Lewis. Became ‘Uncertainty Experts’ partner. Testicular cancer. Lost ball, found focus. Advising Raj Kurup (Indian brother) and Creativeland Asia. The Intangibles, Studio Beyond. Squid (DeFi Crypto). Came home to music. Regent Sounds. Gordon Smith. Writing for days. First novel with end in sight. Furiously curious. Belonging strong.