Musician from Manchester, who plays hammer dulcimer, percussion and sings vocals. By the mid-1980s he was living in London in Bonnington Square, and steering The Happy End, the "Brechtian big band", that lent musical support to a variety of left wing causes including the striking miners, for whom the band played more than 150 benefit gigs. His principal work in the later years was as head of instrumental music at St Gabriel's college in south London.