Made in Derby in Brian Clough’s streets. Brother to a beautiful brother. Divorce. Then marriage. Gran three doors up. Tenderness. Laughter. In a yellow Ford Capri wearing a bowl cut.

Comprehensively Schooled and 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 experimentation. Shyness. Shame. Explored worlds. Anaïs Nin. Christopher Isherwood. Georges Bataille. And 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. Oasis. U2. Bjork. Tricky and 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. There were 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). Thank you 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. Collabs with Raj Kurup and Creativeland (Indian brother), The Intangibles, Studio Beyond. Came home to music. Regent Sounds. Gordon Smith. Working with luthiers. Writing for days. First novel with an end in sight. Furiously curious. Belonging strong.