So you want to know all about me, ummm? Well, let's see...
I was
born in Bury, a small town
just outside Manchester in the depths of Northern England
(that's England, Great Britain, the small island
near France for any Americans reading this). I spent most
of my younger years living in Liverpool (home to not one, but
two crap football teams) before going up-market and settling
down in West Kirby, a
small town on the West coast of the Wirral Penisula.
I moved to Liverpool to go to University were I studied English Literature and getting drunk. I did well in both subjects and graduated with a 2.i BA Hons before realising the chances of finding a job in Liverpool at the time were zero (these were the days of Thatcher and Hatton, after all). So I did what most people did at the time and joined a band, called Coma Ray. I was also on the famous Channel 4 quiz show Fifteen To One.
After this I formed a new band with some friends called Crush where I again played bass and was also responsible for most of the songwriting. (You can find lots of my music tracks in the music section).
Finally
realising that the life of a musician doesn't pay the bills I
rekindled my interest in computers and programming and did a
post-graduate course in Software Technology at the University of
Liverpool. I must have done OK as they offered me a job after I
graduated and so my current career as a web developer and programmer was
born.
I am now happily married to my long suffering wife, Susan, and we live together in domestic bliss in West Kirby.
Oh, and let's get one thing straight from the start, buster. I am NOT that impostor DJ Diplo chap from the USA who shares the same monicker and happens to be more succesful than me, not that I'm bitter, mind, even if I was making music under the name Diplo before he was born and he gets all the money and chicks. Good luck to him and if he has any spare royalty cheques then he should feel free to send them my way. But if you've come to find his music I'm afraid you'll be a bit disapointed. Sorry.
Want to know more?
Gosh, you are nosey! OK, if you want to know more about my work then you can check out what I do or if you want to get right up-to-date then find out how things are now. If you are just curious about what the hell this diplo stuff is then find out more here.
