Music

Music is an important part of my social life, and music-making is something I discovered as an adult. Whilst I have always sung along to the radio, I'd never really done music properly - yet these days it is rare that a week goes by without some kind of performance.

So how did this happen?

My better half and I were looking around for something we could do together. We joined a choir, and as part of that we’ve been on stage at the Liverpool Echo Arena and the O2, we’ve performed at Wembley, we’ve welcomed athletes landing at Heathrow for the Olympics and we’ve performed with Russell Watson.

Through the choir, we got connected to a local ukulele group, and I first picked up the instrument at the end of 2011.In 2012, I was performing at beer festivals, music festivals. We even busked for the olympic torch in 2012, and we’re regularly on-stage at beer festivals.

I played with a band for a while - but that stopped.