Gareth Goodlad and I started writing songs when I was in 5th year at school (I think) and with Murray Arthur on drums, we became diminor (after a misspelling of demeanour). It wasn’t a particularly successful live band, but we wrote music which I thought was successful in its genre - a genre I hated then, and still have little time for today. If anything diminor was my attempt to take the pop-punk of Greenday and Blink-182 and turn it into something I could actually listen to…
We self-recorded two EPs, Cellar Door and Under The Stairs. Given the severe limitations of my equipment, knowledge and skillbase at the time in this area, I’m still pretty pleased at how they came out!