1977
as Johnny Rotten put it: "year zero"
Andy Spector, Debbie Holder, Nicole Hood, Mark Maslin, Jerome Redfarn, Dave Bucklin, Sue, Graham and Karen Hood1978
I move to France to study Painting at Le Havre's Ecole des Beaux Arts. Here I try out every style of painting, including body painting (only not with my own body).
In Le Havre I make money by painting signs and shop windows.
1979
I move from Le Havre to Paris, after many attacks by French, Les Rockers, who ransack my flat and cut up my paintings, except one which they steal! In Paris I get some work with French Sculptor Jean-Michel Marchelle, helping to light his work for exhibition. At this time I take up graffiti painting with stencils, only to catch Pleurisy from the car spray paint and return to London, spitting blood.
1980 1984
I study Film & Video at St Martin's School of Art, BA (Hons)
1984
In 1984 Marc Conway and myself, start Trigger Happy Films from a squat in Longacre, Covent Garden and I direct my 1st Pop Promo for The Sid Presley Experience 'Public Enemy No. 1' for ID Records.
Marc Conway in Super 8 film BAZZARRO BANNALLO
1985 1988
After a summer of bike dispatch work for Vanguard, I get a job managing Count 8 Video Productions for Tony Askew. Tony also has a Staging Company & a Lighting Company, Studios and Location Vehicles. We mainly stage light and film live shows/events.
Tony's ideas are always very ambitious, e.g. dropping an entire Mexican band from the ceiling on a platform; only on the night the platform descends so fast the Mexican band have to race to the middle of it and arrive in a heap on the floor. On another occasion he builds an enormous replica of the QE2 that would enter the dining hall then split open to reveal a ramp, down which a pianist at a white piano would glide to join the diners; only the braking system failed and instead the pianist and piano go shooting into the hall, taking out the first row of diners. I gain a lot of experience working with Tony, mainly as a Beta SP cameraman, 3 machine Beta SP Editing and Vision Mixing. For 3 years running we film all the London, Paris, and Milan Fashion shows. 
Other output at this time includes
Video productions for:
Nike
Swatch
Elle Decor
Lancome
Productions for TV:
Def II for BBC2
Club X for Channel 4
Clothes Show For BBC1
Daily News Reports for Anglia TV
1988 end of 1988
I independently technically produce live Multi-Camera Concerts: The SugarCubes at the Astoria, The Italian Rock Invasion, at the Hammersmith Empire THUSA - (The Heart Under South Africa) Featuring exiled musicians from South Africa, at the Hackney Empire.
1989
I join Max Presents Photographic Agency with Imperial Eye, producing multi-layered images for magazines, LP covers, and Adverts. Clients at this time include: Photography for Magazines: Vanity Fair Magazine The Face Magazine Blitz Magazine Sky Magazine Band Album covers: 'All about Eve' 'Queen Bee'
Adverts for:
Katherine Hamnett
Barclays Bank 1990 1991
I join Wicked Films with Imperial Eye as a Music Promo Director. Some videos I direct at this time include: REBEL MC 'Street Tuff' Label: Desire Records SUGAR BULLET 'World Peace' Label: Virgin Records UK 49ERS 'Girl to Girl' Label: Island DOUBLE TROUBLE 'Talk Back' Label: Desire Records OH WELL 'I'll be forever your man' Label: Parlophone REBEL MC 'Better World' Label: Desire Records
1991
In 1991 I also directed/camera some documentary pieces. Some I make independently and some are made for BMG UK. 'Skinheads' (In Kings Cross) Independent 'Gang Star In New York' for BMG 'Young Disciples In Austria' for BMG 'Norman Jay In Czechoslovakia' for BMG 'Kinky-Gerlinky (A Transvestite Nightclub)' Independent 'New York 'Voguers' for Blitz Magazine
1992 1994
I join TRIGGER HAPPY Films who represent me as a Director
Some music promos I direct at this time include:
NOMAD 'Devotion' Label: Atlantic
SCRITTI POLITTI & SHABBA RANKS 'She's a Woman' Label: Virgin Records
OMAR 'There's Nothing Like This' Label: Talkin' Loud
CANDY FLIP 'Redhills Rd' Label: Atlantic
ESPIRITU 'Franchesca' Label: Columbia
INNER CITY. 'Let It Reign' Label: 10 Records Ltd
ALI & FRAZOR 'Uptown Top Ranking' Label: Arista
RAW UNLIMITED 'Mr Big Stuff' (In my Heart) Label: Ten
B-TRIBE 'Fiesta Fatal' Label: Atlantic USA
OUTLAW POSSE 'Party Time' Label: Gee Street
AWESOME 3. 'Let's Go' Label: A&M
BEF. 'I Don't Know Why' ('I Love You') Label: Ten Records Ltd
SYDNEY YOUNGBLOOD 'Anything' Label:RCA
49ERS. 'Got to be Free' Label: Media Records
SCRITTI POLITTI & SWEETIE IRIE 'Take Me in Your Arms' Virgin Records
C.J. LEWIS 'Sweets for my Sweet' Label: MCA
MANHATTAN COSMETICS (Advert) Filmed in Los Angeles
SYDNEY YOUNGBLOOD 'No Big Deal' Label: BMG
UNIQUE 3 'Rhythm Takes Control' 10 Records Ltd
GRACE UNDER PRESSURE 'Make My Day' .Label: ARS Productions
NOMAD 'Your Love is Lifting Me' Label: Atlantic 1995 1998
In 1995 I form a small alternative cinema called 'Marcozy' at Fungus Mungus Battersea, that shows a mixed programme of cult and classic films with a selection of individually made super-8 and 16mm films.Live Poets/Performers/ Musicians were encouraged to perform along with films via the mixing desk. The idea is to create a different kind of cinema experience with settees armchairs, coffee tables and lamps. This is surprisingly successful, and as the club grows I team up with Jerry Dammers, Game Boy Roy and DJ Olly to run a Jazz and Chess club called 'Chazz' at the Atlantic Club Piccadilly. The club runs until August 1996. In January 1995 I complete an Avid Nonlinear Editing Course. At this time I also create multi-projected environments for live events such as the 'Trainspotting' party, 'My Beautiful Launderette' party and many others. I join 4D Films 34 Lexington St, London, W1 8QT Videos I direct with 4D include: NATURAL BORN CHILLERS 'Rock the Funky Beat' Label: Warner Music UK ADAM F 'Circles' Label: F-Jam ADAM F 'Music in my mind' Label: F-Jam PURITY 'Bullets for words' Label: Tommy Boy Music SMOKE CITY 'Jogga Bossa' Label: Jive UK GARY MOORE VS Professor Stretch 'Always There for You' Label: Virgin B.T. 'Loving you more' Label: Perfecto PUBLIC DEMAND 'Invisible' Label: ZTT ARKARNA 'House on fire' Label: Kinetic Records PURITY 'Interferance' Label: Tommy Boy Music DIVA SURPRISE 'On Top of The World' EMI Records UK BBE 'Deeper Love' Label: Positiva KATTY MARTINE 'Je T'aime' Label: Daniel Vangarde FELONIE 'Before I let You Go' Label: Parlophone KATTY MARTINE 'Toute La Nuite' Label: Daniel Vangarde PJ & DUNCAN 'If I Give You My Number' Label: Telstar UP YER RONSON 'Lost in Love' Label: Polydor
1999 2001
Director at Bullet Films, 23 Ganton St London W1V 1LA Videos I direct at this time include: ALABAMA 3 'Too Sick to Pray' Label: One Little Indian OASIS 'Where did it all go wrong' (visuals) TIN TIN OUT 'Eleven to Fly' Label: Virgin MANCHILD/THERAPY? 'Rehab' Label: One Little Indian SISTER BLISS/FAITHLESS 'Sister Sister' Label: Multiply Records GLOOM Short Drama 5 mins Bullet Films
2002 2003
After a couple of years with Bullet films I decide it is time to concentrate on drama, which had been my original motivation, and took 6 months off to write a feature film script THE RISK, based on an original story by Rory Perkins. After some initial interest in the script, things fall flat. I decide move to Penzance in Cornwall to complete the script, and whilst there also learn Photoshop at the Digital Peninsula Network.
2003 2004
In Cornwall I work doing illustrations for 'Code', a national men's magazine, including this one about sleep paralysis 
Also I produce some short films for South West Screen Digital shorts.
Produced short film, 'Jubilee Pool'- UK Film Fund Dir: Nick Harpley
Produced short film, 'The Way Things Work' - UK Film Fund Dir: Will Jackson
Produced short film 'Birt Dynley' - UK Film Fund Dir: Paul Farmer
At this time I continue to do Avid editing
Edited video version of DM Thomas's play HELL FIRE CORNER. Dir: Marie Macneill
Edited JONNY BOY 'The Generation that Bought more Shoes' Dir: Don Letts.
Edited THE COOPER TEMPLE CLAUSE 'Lets Kill the Music' Label: Morning Records
Edited EASY WORLD 'You & Me' Label: Jive Dir: Richard Heslop
Edited SPAN 'Found' Label: Universal Island Records Dir: Richard Heslop
Edited SPAN 'Span' Label: Universal Island Records Dir: Richard Heslop
I also co-write another feature film script, based on smuggling in Cornwall, called 'Scilly Automatic' with co-author Cameron Carter.
2005
I produce, DoP and edit PS, a 30 min modern take on Romeo & Juliet, shot on the home town estates of the 7/7 bombers in West Yorkshire. The film tackles the plight of interracial relationships. (The film's original title 'Paki Slag' is a term used on the estates for a white girl who dates an Asian boy.) 
DoP THE 5th SEASON 40 MINS Dance Film for Flying Feet Choreographed By Hattie Worboys
DoP THE NIHANG (A secret history of the Sikhs) 1 HOUR DOCUMENTARY for HIVE CENTRAL TV. (Shot on location in India)
DoP WRESTLING IN PAKISTAN 30 min documentary for Heritage Fund (Shot on location in Pakistan)
DoP AN ABSOLUTE ANGEL 30 min drama for Mondo Media (Shot in Salford Manchester)
DoP/Editor/Producer PS 30 min drama for UK FILM FUND (Shot on the estates of West Yorkshire)
2006 2007
I buy an Avid Media Composer & join Hive Central TV as a Director/DoP/Editor
Director/DoP/Editor NALOXONE (The Opiate Antidote) for Manchester Ambulance A dramatized documentary about the effects of an opium overdose. Filmed working with ex addicts/offenders from Salford, Manchester. Using graphics & CGI effects to illustrate the information.
DoP/Editor GUNS & KNIVES ON THE STREETS for the Home Office. A hard-hitting documentary about the escalating violence around young people today. Made with the assistance of West Yorkshire Police, the film details with graphic depiction the effects of guns & knives and is screened at schools across Britain.
Director/DoP/Editor SMART An information film, aimed at young people who have problems with parents suffering from addiction.
Director/DoP/Editor SCALPING A SIKH for Bodaloka TV 15 min dramatized account of a Sikh boy cutting his hair off, against the wishes of his family/culture, and the effect of this action on his life.
Director/DoP/Editor FINDING FAITH A documentary exploring the similarities and differences in major religions in Britain. Looking at attitudes to life & death, God and religious tolerance within a cross-section of diverse communities of North England.