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Originally a classically trained clarinet player I discovered punk when I heard the Ramones Blitzkrieg Bop played on the John Peel show.
In 1979 an old school friend Roger 'Trotwood' Nowell asked me to join a band as saxophone player. The guitarist in the band was one Stan Greenwood. Together we evolved into 'the Elements' who after several changes of vocalists and drummer became the Skeletal Family. It was at this time that I adopted the name Karlheinz after the german composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. I left the Skeletal Family fairly early on in their career which was just as well as I had developed chronic stage fright. I remained on good terms with the band and contributed to several recording sessions. I did dabble in Synth Pop and a bit of dance but nothing really came of this and for 15 years or so I had nothing to do with any music scene whatsoever.
In 2002 Roger and Stan had the idea for a one off Skels reunion show and I was really pleased when they asked me to take part. Standing back stage at the Cockpit in Leeds I suddenly realised that my stage fright had disappeared. At last I could enjoy performing on stage.
The reaction to the reunion was such that we decided to carry on, recruiting new vocalist Claire along the way and have played shows all over Europe and the Drop Dead festival in New York.
Working on our 2005 album Sakura I rediscovered my love of composing and songwriting. Thats why I have set up my own MySpace. I like to think I work across a variety of styles and have a couple of projects that I would like to do in 2008 collaborating with some really special friends I've made and perhaps even some I've yet to meet.
But most of all I've enjoyed meeting great people and made some wonderfully brilliant friends along the way.
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Oh yeah and from time to time I make a pretentious prat of myself - but who the fuck cares eh! Sometimes I talk the most unbelievable crap and don't know when to stop.
I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)
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