He is a singer-songwriter and guitarist born in Matlock
Bath, Derbyshire, England, and studied at Sheffield University where he met
his co-bandmember Ian Ball.He
became a co-founder of the group Gomez. They debuted in Leeds in 1996 and soon were recording
demos, with an album being released in 1997.1998 brought them success with their first single
release which also became a chart hit,"78 Stone Wobble", and
since then have had over a dozen chart entries as well as a No. 2 UK album
chart hit with Liquid Skin in 1999 and a No. 1 hit with the album How
We Operate on the US Billboard Heatseeker chart in 2006.As a songwriter and co-writer his
songs include the Top 40 hits "We Haven't Turned Around" and
"Whippin' Piccadilly".He has worked with acts such as Jimmy Buffett
as a guest vocalist and albums he has appeared on include Abandoned
Shopping Trolley Hotline and Out West with Gomez, Take The
Weather With You by Jimmy Buffett
and Beauty in Madness by Hobotalk.In the world of television and movies his songs have
appeared in the films American Beauty, Forces of Nature, Gone in
60 Seconds, The Hitcher, Lost Souls and Robots among others and
also in the TV series Kyle XY. In recent times he has appeared as a solo artists in his
own series of concerts.
