I’m a boy, I’m 25 and I play guitar …. a lot of guitar. I was born in Pretoria, and have lived in Johannesburg South Africa since that day. What i do remember about being little is very little. I think i was always moving on too quickly to remember anything current. Though i do remember the park across the road, where i spent most of my days with friends, playing in the trees and riding bikes. It was probably at this time, when everyone was doing ‘boy things’ like playing some sort of sport, which i completely sucked at, that i realised i wasnt meant to be doing what they were doing. Up until this point it was my Mom – May, my Dad – Ray and my Sister – Sarah, and then one day it was just the three of us. My father, the most influential person in my life died of cancer when i was 10. I started playing guitar when I was about 12 years old but never ever thought I would be able to play as much as I have had the opportunity to, but it sure is all I want to keep doing. I never really enjoyed school that much, and kinda couldn’t wait to get home everyday so i could play my guitar, but it was where i met my Bean. She is the most beautiful girl in the whole world and i have too too much fun with her.

Although I played in many small bands when I was younger, my first professional guitar playing began with Harris Tweed in 2006. So to persue my dream I rushed through my varsity years, studying Audio Visual Communications. Over the next 2 years Harris Tweed played every festival the country had, went on two nationwide tours, opened for Fall Out Boy at 94.7′s Big Night Out, as well as had the opportunity to showcase our music at the SXSW festival in Austin Texas in 2007. In May of the same year we recorded a live DVD which was awarded a South African Music Award for “best global dvd”.

In early 2008 I went on tour to Japan with the SAMA’s best rock act, Cassette. On return we spent about 6 months writing and pre-producing new material for an album as well as touring in between. We went into studio in September 2008 and the album ‘Who do you trust?’ was released in Febuary 2009.

In between all of this I was contacted by Greg Carlin, who had just walked out of studio with his debut album Collected Memories in his hand, in search of musicians to put a powerful live face to his act called Zebra and Giraffe.
After we recruited another three animal members, we hid in the dungeon of a rehersal studio for 3 months perfecting that which was hyped. Our first gig was at Oppikoppi to 3500 totally amped kids, and immediately jumped on a nation wide tour with Dear Reader (the trio that Harris Tweed became) and further strived to perfect our performance. As at Autumn 2009, Zebra & Giraffe has been named South Africa’s BEST ROCK Band at the 15th Annual SAMA awards, and also won the 2009 MTV Africa Best Alternative category against the likes of aKing, Coldplay, Greenday, and Cassette. Zebra & Giraffe are currently taking some time off from touring to write some new material.

I started a company called Melon Videos as a sister company to the Melon Graphics umbrella to look after the video side of the group.

This is me and this is where I am in my life.