Cliff is the eldest of three children; He has a Brother and a sister. Cliff and his Brother spent many hours "playing" well known songs when they started out, Cliff was 14 at the time. Always preferring the sound of the Bass, he'd heard the great Jack Bruce of Cream play, but couldn't afford to buy a Bass, so ended up getting a second hand Antoria Les Paul copy. Together they learnt a few chords and bits of songs, but Cliff stuck with riffs and bass lines played at the lower end of the instrument. They learnt Cream’s ‘Sunshine of your Love’, also tracks by Deep purple, and Led Zeppelin. Most were only poor imitations. All the while he was saving up money towards a proper Bass.

The first real Bass was of course a Copy of the Gibson EB3, al la Jack Bruce. With this instrument he joined his first band ’St Pepper’( A Beetles tribute band) who later became known as ‘Square One’.....While playing with this band Cliff purchased his next real quality Bass an Ibanez Artiste, Al la Stanley Clarke, another great hero. This Bass can be seen in the Black and white picture of Square One in the practice hall. During his time with Square one he used a variety of amps, H & H, Marshall, and even a 200watt Simms Watts PA amplifier. He learnt fast with this band, he was the new Guy, and in those days the band played between 5 and 6 nights per week. He played with these Guys for 2 years. That’s a lot of gigs! He left them and was ready to settle down to married life, thinking he’d never gig again he sold his gear……….Big mistake. Music was part of him and he just had to play. So time to buy some new gear, and there was a lot of gear over the years. Using Fender precisions and Jazzes, a Warwick thumb bass, finally having  now settled on a Custom built Manson Bass, a real all-rounder. As for the amps..... Most note worthy was the David Eden set up he used, it consisted of a 700 watt road runner head and 2 x 10 XLT plus 1 x 15 XLT, which was one powerful rig, but heavy. For his present set-up see the 'gear' page.

He has played with several other bands on his way to 'Blackrose'; this is the band with which he has the most success. Blackrose had a CD published, called 'Heaven Scent', and a contract with an American distribution company, with distribution deals in American and the far East. Blackrose supported many bands including;  Big Country,  Leo Sayer,  UK Subs,   999,  The Damned,  and The Stranglers, during their 8 years together. They also played many festivals; the biggest had a 50,000 Watt PA…With 18,000Watts of fold back!. Big things were expected from this band, but, very sadly things turned bad when the American distribution company wanted to change the name of the band to Adrenalizer and the album from 'Heaven Scent', to 'Adrenalized'. Three quarters of the band didn’t want it. So that was the start of the downward slope. There is a lot more to this story ............

Cliff is at present in the process of recording his own music. Also now gigging again, having joined a new band called 'High tide'. This is Six piece band who play a mixture of Classic Blues, Rock, and folk.