Working the rest of his teens in electronics and computers he finally got onto his first music related course at a local (Aston) recording studio 'Connections Arts' where he first had a taste of professional recording equipment.

Using his one-day-a-week at East Birmingham college within the music department he managed to persuade the music tutor to allow him more studio time if he re-wired the studio. This is where he managed to create his first demo tapes using limited equipment.

Music Machine was his first real studio job, working as assistant engineer to John Purser, the studio proprietor who mainly hired the studio to backing track singers and small local artists. Music Machine was based around a 16 track Fostex B16 reel-to-reel and a Soundcraft 32 channel 8 buss desk, Atari mega ST running Cubase (V2). John company is now 'We Got It Covered'

After a couple of years at the studio, Simon managed to scrape together his own studio equipment to setup within his bedroom back in Erdington, but it wasn't until a good close friend invested a large sum of money into his venture that he managed to purchase everything he needed for his own home midi-based recording studio.

During the setting up of his home studio, Simon teamed up with an old school friend 'Andy Spencer' who also had a passion for music, decided to help Simon distribute his new demo tracks to top record labels, but this wasn't going to be easy...!

with Andy using his 'Sales Rep' talk he managed to setup several meetings with top record label A&R (with thanks to his 'Music Week' directory), so Simon got his demo tapes together and both headed on down to London for a long day!

Only PWL (Pete Waterman Ltd) shown any interest in his demos which, thanks to XL recordings' was going to be Simon's 'foot in the door' to bigger things!

'Rofo's Theme' was to be the first commercial remix of Simon's career which just missed the UK top 40 by going in at no. 44, not a bad effort for his first track and in 1992!!

Still working occasionally at Music Machine, Simon was introduced to Tony de Vit, a local DJ who listened and liked Simon's demos, so decided to hookup and co-write some new material using Simon's melodic tunes with Tony's harder edge ......a great partnership was born