ABOUT ME

recent Music graduate from Brighton, England, with a passion for travel (unsurprisingly), photography and American music.

I'm new here, not a murderer, just a young guy who needs a leg up!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I am eager to meet new people and have some new experiences, having reached a crossroads in my life as a fresh-faced, unemployed graduate, and what better way to do it than by sleeping on couches and sharing mine! After a summer of busking around Europe I'm keen to repay the generosity of everyone who helped me on my travels

Interests

Playing, writing, teaching and listening to music, photography, languages (French + keen to learn others), thrift/junk/crate-digging, politics & activism, history.

• culture
• writing
• photography
• thrifting
• politics
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• history
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC
Old Crow Medecine Show, Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings, Pokey Lafarge, Gene Clark, Niel Young, Pogues, Gram Parsons, Bob Wills, The Low Anthem, Big Bill Broonzy, Leadbelly, Howlin' Wolf, JJ Cale, Elliott Smith, Mississipi Sheiks, Kurt Vile, The Smiths, Slint, Stone Roses, The Doors, The Slits, Massive Attack, Parquet Courts, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Country Teasers, Fat White Family, Connan Mockasin, Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, Mazzy Star, Pavement..

BOOKS
Kafka, Camus, Arthur C Clarke, HG Wells, Steinbeck, Henry Miller, Hemmingway, Huxley, Nabukov, Tolkein, George RR Martin, Orwell, Phillip K Dick, Foucault, Heller, Cormac McCarthy, Machiavelli, Simon Frith, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Kerouac, Bukowski....... ..

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Spent 2 months in India teaching music to kids who had never heard of the Beatles

Teach, Learn, Share

I have taught many of my friends the basics of playing the guitar, generally trying to teach people to teach themselves songs, rather than giving boring exercises to practice...

Always up for a jam / singsong / impromptu lesson

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United States