The idea behind Beach Street The Debut Album

Back in the early 1980s growing up in Swansea South Wales, the summers were always glorious and boiling hot, sometimes so hot me and my friends would carve our names with lollipop sticks into the melted tarmac of our street I think even to this day the names are still etched somewhere in the street we all played in.

We had such a close knit community with friends all around us and parents that would all sit in the street until sundown telling stories of years gone by as us kids would all be playing games such as kerbsie (a game of standing opposite each other on the edge of the pavement and each in turn we would throw the ball and try and hit the kerb so the ball would bounce back to ourselves) if we missed our friend on opposite side would take their turn.

Football was also a popular game between the whole street we would always have enough players to have a full game. Cars weren't so much a problem on the road back then so we could play more free with our friends until our mothers would call us in for our teatime food.

One evening would stick in my memory forever it was Tuesday 24th february 1987 and my grandmother was over our house, I always loved it when my grandparents visited the house always seemed warm and safe just like i remember it that night.

My dad said to me and my older brother grab your coats we are going out somewhere, me being only young I had never ventured out of the street unless going for going to school, I was very excited as to where we were going. I grabbed my coat and went into my dads car with my dad and brother and off we went. Little did we know my dad was taking us to the VetchField to see Swansea Ciy play Manchester United in Jimmy Rimmer Testimonial match.

My main memory of the game was being on my dads shoulders on the mighty Northbank and the noise of the crowd was so loud i think its still ringing in my ears today. On the way out from the game I remember hearing some men saying lets head down to Beach Street and I always wondered for years later where is that place the men were talking about.

In the Summer of 2018 I decided to start writing some brand new songs and as i was thinking of a title for the first song I remembered the name 'Beach Street' and thought to myself how magical it would be to write a full album of songs about growing up and those times with our families and friends in those glory days of the 80s, fate played its card that February night down the Vetch and a massive thanks to those men passing by for planting the seed for the title of my Debut Album 'Beach Street'.