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Punk circa 1976 is where I got started, managed various bands of various styles some of which will be represented here when I dig the vids out. Played in a couple of very unknown punk bands one of which morphed into Manc indie band Raindance ( I got tired of having no audience for the noise I'd been foisting, punk really was dead by then ) after a couple of years I left to start managing then but sadly they split. I experimented with another couple of great indie bands before going into partnership in 1997 with Phil Bell owner of PJ Bells East Side Jazz Cafe / Republica in Manchester to manage both Dog Toffee one of the very few rock 'n' roll band in the country at the time, Therapy? The X-Rays, Goldblade & the Golden Guineas being the others & the Wildhearts were split at the time) & hardcore rap crew Force Tenn which contained the mighty talents of John The Raptist. The journey with Dog Toffee has been a wonderfully turbulent one, real rock 'n' roll are tough to acts break in the UK & even though we managed to get Sony on board for a year they jumped & the band were dumped, 3 albums later & we're still dying! The Rock 'n' Roll Unliminted label has been a labour of love & nearly made me bankrupt more than once. It's a tough game & when the competition can place their music on the major soaps weeks ahead of release & swamp myspace with their big budgets (Duffy is them most recent big hype ( don't you just love the Brit School conveyor! Ready made for your consumption. I am sour but it isn't sour grapes, you can't teach rock 'n' roll in school, not to say it isn't learned there it just isn't on the curriculum) of course, 100% no 1 before anyone even heard it. There's little hope for the like's of us. Genius marketing, I must admit, but cynical & lacking in any true passion or soul & that's all the chart's are these days, marketing charts. Fuck em, arts for arts sake.