A born & bred Belfast boy with various band and solo incarnations under his belt decided to get a ‘proper’ job. But it couldn’t suppress his desire to perform and he emerged from his cocoon with the realisation that his solitary-confinement had made his music ‘different’ from before.

Drawing inspiration from Bowie, Underworld, the Doors, Babybird, PJ Harvey, Leonard Cohen, Zepplin and the Frames he completed his first, limited edition, EP (Comfort Me) after a move to Manchester. But playing live still seemed better and his audience seemed happier (though still melancholic) indulging in him actually being their swinging voice and machines between the epic drive of 'comfort me', the soft, intimacy of ‘help me' and the explosion of vocals and spiralling guitar loops and drum samples that make up tracks such as ‘slow down’.

However, a bike accident in Nov. 2004 smashed his left arm and put a sudden question mark over his musical adventures - just when things seemed to be picking up. 3 operations later his arm is now recovering, and he is progressing new ideas using tricks he picked up while working out how to replace his once irreplaceable guitar. The guitar is now back in its rightful place and Stephen picks up where he left off……………………………… TO BE CONTINUED