My first treasured toy along with an Action Man was a 1950’s Dansette record player where hand me down records out of favour with Auntie’s and Uncles became the music of my childhood. Although my parents were not Jamaican or black music fans, the records from their siblings collection gave me my first musical love after the mod and Blue Beat craze waned. They were into Prog Rock and Bowie, so records on the Trojan and Doctor Bird labels came to me early in life and I became custodian of these wonderful new sounds.

Although I was living in Berkshire, visits to my spiritual home in Shepherds Bush gave me that soundtrack once more with reggae blaring from Ford Escorts , tower Blocks and hairdressers and a thirst for buying vinyl was born.

My musical path was set and all my mates at school were into Soul and New Wave music so I had to go to gigs on my lonesome with Eek a Mouse at the old Lyceum being my first of note.  By the end of the 80’s, I was a regular at Gossips , Peoples and The Central Club Reading.

In an age before the internet there was literally no or little written work on reggae apart from Black Echoes, so information could only be found at record shops so that’s where the history was gleaned from the likes of Daddy Kool and Peckings .

I was now fully indoctrinated into the music and Jamaican culture and in 2000 joined Good Intentions Sound and have been DJ’ing for various events.

In 2018 I had the honour to be asked to Curate a charity event for Brian Travers of UB40 including a host of stars including Winston Reedy , Susan Cadogan , Lady Lex and Ossie Gad.

You can hear Reeves Revival every Tuesday between the hours of 8-10pm.