I’ve been making music since I was 18 years old. As guitarist I was perfectly happy contributing my part to the music we were making with the band in which I played back then. I never considered myself a songwriter.

Then the singer of our band decided to quit, leaving a gap that had to be filled. Everybody ( but me ) thought I was the person to take over the role of lead singer, which I did reluctantly. This pretty soon led me to go and write some songs myself, and that’s how I learned to appreciate the satisfaction writing a song can give. I never stopped ever since.

About twenty years and a couple of bands later I felt I no longer wanted to “sacrifice” my songs to members of a band. They sometimes had an urge to turn it into something I did not have in mind. More and more I grew convinced that if I wanted a song to sound exactly the way I wanted it, I would have to do the thinking part myself, leaving hardly any, or even no room at all for creative freedom of somebody else.

I decided to try and create the circumstances I thought necessary where I would be able not only to write songs, but to work on the arrangements as well. Not having enough money to rent a special place I was forced to find some space somewhere in the vicinity of my home. The only place I could find was the barn in our backyard.

So it was there I built a very small room, big enough to get all the stuff in, small enough to leave room for the bicycles.

Now, after a few years of fooling around in my private little musical playground, John van Tiel gave me the chance to make a selection of my recordings and put them on a record. In a real studio, with Tiedo groeneveld. Wow!

That’s the record you can buy right now!

Feel free to listen to some samples.