What can be said about Mr. Handlebear, for starters he is an authors dream, a modern day James Douglas Morrison, a mothers pride and a girlfriends worst nightmare...you couldn't make such a character up. Mysterious, charming, complex and at times a liability, a non-conformist who is just as interested in adventure, travel and experience as he is in music and art. So elusive that we couldn't even track him down long enough to write his own biography so we wrote it for him hope he likes it.

He'd say inconsistent where we'd say experimental. He'd say distracted, not inquisitive. Not artistic, but erratic. Not waving but drowning. But, you'd forgive the boy for an occasional temperament that makes Nick Drake appear eruptively ecstatic.

Born of fire into a land of perpetual winter, 20 odd sunless seasons at 57 o N, might have taken the shine off of Mr. Handlebear's bright future but in some ways the absence of it's garish glare has made room for a more contemplative attitude. Not corrupted by the lust for a cheap buck he remains broke but with his soul intact. His rather unorthodox approach to music production leaves a lot of room to develop and evolve at a more natural pace, unusually there's no drag towards the much-needed money shot.

Like all good Scots he's emotionally hopeless, pent-up, temperamental and often drunk. Frustratingly humble, he'd be the last to admit that his genuine care and attention coupled with meticulous fine-tuning has led his work to resound with a real sincerity and quality. Unable to cope with even the slightest compliment, it's a wonder that his ego maintains any level of self esteem at all, and you'd do better to point out his buckled teeth, clinical neurosis and retarded emotional state. Remarkably well adjusted considering he's only got a featureless wasteland of despair to inspire the fire in his belly and when keeping on in your traditional man-skirt is all you can do. Still, he's good with his hands, in his words, “next stop, f**k all.” All that remains to be said then is that he has the style that you need.