I’ve been performing professionally since I was 16, so a long time, although my first experience of a paid gig was in an old people’s home and I got booed off by an octogenarian for being too loud. But that hasn’t stopped me so far! I’ve always loved performing - in fact after my first ever piano lesson at the age of 7, I brought round the girls from next door who I used to kick about with, and made them watch me play Old McDonald whilst wearing a makeshift cape and lighting a candelabra on top of the family piano.

I love teaching piano as well as boring people with my deep knowledge of original breaks and samples and year of release.

I spend as much of my free time in the woods with my family getting as muddy as possible!

Originally from Dublin Ireland, Eric landed in Bristol in 2010 and quickly became a busy member of the local music scene which is where he met the other members of the Soul Strutters.

And through the love of funk and soul, a band was born. The rest is uninteresting.

Fun fact: related to Jedward.

When I’m not gigging with the lads, I like making weird noises and mushrooms. If I’m ever staring into space, I’m probably thinking about riding on panspermic mushroom spores through space soundtracked by Raymond Scott.

I listen to music absurdly loud which my son loves. My wife… not so much.

I’ve been playing guitar for over 20 years - long enough to absolutely nail the E minor pentatonic. Sadly, only a couple of our songs are in that key, so the rest of the gig is a carefully choreographed air-guitar performance disguised as musicianship.

I also teach guitar, although all of my students are significantly better than me.