After leaving school he had a number of jobs including working in a bank, digging potatoes on Jersey, and punting tourists up and down the river in Cambridge.
While attending to his road manager duties, he also sat out front at gigs operating a synthesizer and mixing the band.
[2] He was brought into the band proper to replace a temporarily absent Dik Mik in May 1971.
[3] He left Hawkwind in June 1974[4] to emigrate to the East Shore of Kootenay Lake, in B.C.
He recorded two albums with the Vancouver-based experimental group Melodic Energy Commission in 1979 and 1980 (with help from fellow ex-Hawkwinder Paul Rudolph).