The Captain first DJ'd in 1983 using a Technics double cassette deck and two copies of That's What I Call Music 1. His eight year old sister was severely under-impressed. Overcoming this massive dent to his ego took some time, counselling and lots and lots of record shopping.

Several years later, he was one of the first to jump on the CDJ bandwagon, when a rare as hen's teeth bonus from real life work financed the purchase of the Betamax of the CD deck world - a pair of Denon S5,000's. Honing his DJ skills on what were effectively a pair of beltdrive CD players and spurred on by what, at the time, was an appalling lack of variety, or indeed any kind of musical taste, in the nightlife of Perth he started his own night, Soulfood, a moniker he continues to record his jazzier mixes under.

Soulfood, and some mental, weekend-long after-parties for the infamous Mi Casa, Su Casa night in Perth led to invites to play in a range of fields, barns and sundry outhouses in miscellaneous locations across the frozen north of Scotland. The outdoor party scene suited him well, given his love of the outdoors, and he often took great pleasure in bringing parties back from early morning Tekno doom with superlative sunrise sets to coax people out of their tents and onto their feet. A role he still relishes to this day.

He later graduated to become co-founder of a short-lived (but critically acclaimed) Glasgow club night, Freq. First at the infamous Soundhaus and soon after at the world-famous Sub Club he warmed up for the likes of Hardfloor, Dan Bell, John Tejada, Swayzak, Carl Finlow, Alex Under and Akufen.

Since giving up the promoting game he’s been enjoying the freedom to play a wider variety of genres from rocking Rockabilly to jumping Jump Blues and scorching Ska at festivals including the Scottish Soulful Weekender and Audio Soup.

Fun as all that his, he still can't stay away from baws-oot techno from top class acts such as Paula Temple, Planetary Assault Systems, Karenn & Black Asteroid, O Phase and others too numerous to mention.