Tony started playing sax back in the mid eighties after seeing one hanging in the music shop in Queens Road Southend. He worked for 90 hours one week and 100 hours the next at Pizza Hut to pay for the instrument and has never looked back since.

He tried to have lessons but quickly found his music teacher to be drunk most of the time, a trait he would later find is eminent in most musicians, so he headed off to the shed and taught himself the delicate art of strangling a sax. After 6 months Tony started to play gigs and remembering his first ever show at the Shorehouse Tony talks of throwing up either due to nerves or bad seafood, common in Southend at that time. He played some awkward solos in a covers band and from the off it was clear he had a taste for improvisation on the edges of reality.

He tried his hand at many different styles of music, and at one time was playing in 12 different bands.

He has been threatened with meat cleavers, compared to a goose, lifted off stage by two hairy bikers and chased out of multi storey car parks the world over, searching for that elusive quarter tone rib tickler but remains fervently effervescent.

Although Tony more recently has been seen heading off to play the odd Jazz gig, his heart really lies in Reggae and Ska music. He has toured extensively with numerous outfits and has been seen sporting a union jack haircut as well as a black and white checked mohican!! The background of Ska and Reggae fused with Jazz and Acid Skiffle has lent itself well to the blend of Beach Boys music and Tony has finally found his calling in the mobile surreality they call 'The British Beach boys'.

A special thanks from Tony to Ginsters for making the journey that much more complete and the odd tipple of Laphroag for the surreality to be embossed.

Tony's favourite quote - "What do you mean I'm out of tune".