I am slowly getting round to updating the content on the rest of my website. Of late I have been focussing on the portraits. I want to get more photos and music up there, as well as open up more pages on the site.

I recently wrote the music for a play called ‘Briefing’ which ran throughout April at the Camden People’s Theatre. It was very well received and reviewed, as was the music, to my relief!

From my perspective it was great working with the director and cast (all top notch graduates of Ecole Lecoq) particularly because they used the music to build the play, not just have it in the background. In this way the dramatic and musical elements of the production developed together. I thoroughly enjoyed the experience of working on ‘Briefing’ and felt really proud to have been part of such an outstanding production, to be perfectly honest.

Click the thumbnail below, and have a listen to some of the music. You may get a taste of the play’s atmosphere.

New portrait added to the series 2 page:

For the rest of the series click on the thumbnail below:

Have a look around, why don’t you

New portrait up on the website:

I was quite satisfied with the rhythm of the colours, but I am still finding my way with this series.  I might develop the series into oil paintings or exploded designs.

The rest of this portrait series can be found here on the website.

I am still on the lookout for more subjects so, as ever, email me if you are interested in becoming extremely famous.

I have uploaded a new page of not one, not two, not three, not four, but six new portraits. Click the picture below for the page.

These pictures are drawn in pencil then scanned and coloured on computer. I am thinking of developing them into more purely geometrical images.

I am always looking for more subjects, so if you are interested drop me an email.

Now this is what I am talking about. Content! To hell with the nob gags. I am going to be getting more content on my website now. I have uploaded a photograph of my most recent self-portrait on the portraits page of my website which can be reached by clicking the image preview below. I cannot possibly write any more here. I am still bushed from the weekend festivities surrounding the engagement of my friends Ben and Gill.

This is a stack of film reels in the back of one of the finest venues in Bristol: The Cube Cinema. Nestled in the back-roads behind Jamaica Street and King Square, The Cube is volunteer-run, and a lot of love goes into its upkeep, organization, and programming.

Over the years I have been to see many bands and films there, as well as to the occasional birthday party. I first went there in 2000 (I think) when a friend of mine was volunteering. Back then you had to walk through a Chinese restaurant to get into the cinema.

At the back of the theatre is a cosy projection room filled with stuff like that stack of reels in the header photo and this faintly lewd health and safety diagram:

I was there for a gig that night – I think it was Twocsinak’s album launch. Twocsinak is the alias of cunning Joe Grounds who can be seen here at various stages of the evening:

a. before the gig:

b. during the gig:

c. after the gig, smoking a cigarette:

d. on his merry way home:

This is the element of a heater in the One-Stop Thali restaurant in Bristol. The One-Stop Thali, for those of you who don’t know it, is a kitsch little indian diner in the heart of a pretty area in Bristol called Montpelier.

Montpelier ‘came up’ a few years back, mainly due to the influx of students who wanted a bohemian alternative to Clifton, with a a strong community feeling (and was not quite as dodgy as St Paul’s). I don’t know what the people who already lived in the area felt about this influx. But I can guess. Now the area is being invaded by young professionals, due to the grand regeneration of Bristol city centre. I believe the bohemians are quite unhappy about this invasion of outsiders.

Anyway, I was having breakfast in the Thali one grey hungover morning, and I liked the look of this warm glowing honeycomb, which was the only source of heat in the room. You can imagine what the other breakfasters thought of me photographing and filming a rotating heater. I can suggest: ‘idiot’; ‘retard’; ‘fucking outsider’; or a combination of the above.

The hangover was caused by my friend Ollie’s house party, summarized in this photo:

There is grass under the sofa. Not because someone had lugged furniture into the garden, no. Ollie had gone to the trouble of turfing his bedroom, for some reason. I think there was a sports theme to the party and Ollie wanted his bedroom to be like Wimbledon.

Well, it it seems as good a place as any to start.

Have a gander at tomrowland.co.uk If you haven’t seen my website already. If you are time-poor and reading this through a pair of binoculars then just look at the favicon up there in the url address bar.

All there is to say is that I will be using the as a place to upload things that I do in my life, much the same as any other homepage, really. I hope that I keep it (and this blog) updated regularly and frequently, as much for myself as anyone else.

The ten images which make up the main page are all cropped from photos I have taken somewhere or other. Each photo has a story behind it. So, for want of anything more obvious, and a rather understocked archive, I am going to blog these narratives. Hopefully this will give the homepage a little more life.

As yet, the site is somewhat under-populated with content, as far as I am concerned, but hopefully that will change steadily.

Please comment on anything as kindly or ruthlessly as you like, no matter how well you know me. Bloggers do not hold back on their comments, so there is no reason why their critics should either.

I am going to regret writing that.