At this time Dugdale had self taught himself the guitar and was playing in bands and gigging local pubs while writing new songs.
Whilst the album was played on some local audio stations such as South City FM and Wave 105FM Dugdale realised his strength lay in composition rather than as a singer/songwriter.
In 2006, Dugdale gave up his "Day Job" to pursue a career in the music industry and throughout the period up to 2010 he produced local solo artists albums, recorded and produced for local bands, taught guitar for beginners and wrote for various music libraries.
In 2012 a producer friend of Dugdale's offered him the role of composer on the indie comedy Drunk on Love.
[5] After this Dugdale realised that scoring to picture was what he wished to pursue on a permanent basis and has subsequently worked on many short and feature length films.