• 1996 Following a strange incident in Birmingham involving a close friend and some clouds - three weeks later, Someone appeared (my first poem)
  
• 1997 Poetry sparks creation of ABsite and AB's Poetry Corner (as was) following requests from the Usenet group ARC
  
• 1998 Vampire published on the Vampire Poetry site
• 1998 RailwayLines started as a fringe project
  
• 1999 Begin (very nervously) to perform at the University of Birmingham's Alternative Performing Arts Society (aka TAPAS, aka Freak Brothers)
• 1999 Storm (deconstruction edit) and Storm Breaking written for and performed in the performance piece "Mania" at Freak Brothers' end of year festival
  
• 1999 Start performing regularly in West Yorkshire, where there is a lively (if short lived) poetry scene
  
• 2000 Vampire and 150017 published in Romantic Outsider, an influential West Yorkshire based zine
• 2001 After a brief spell at Reading's Poets' Cafe, off to perform regularly around Leicester and Nottingham
• 2002 Back to Leeds to discover poetry is dead after all...
  
• 2003 Banned from Leeds' Wicked Words due to explicit content (too wicked for Wicked Words...)
  
• 2003 Join two "outsider" poets in creating hEar4Words, in a clear case of bad capitalisation
• 2003 Perform at the Bradford Festival
• 2004 Musical accompaniment to performances has been provided by Jon Gomm, Gary Stewart, Gallo and Maria
• 2004 Radio appearances on bcb's "Shipley Corner", BBC Radio Leeds and internet station !Bradford Spoken Word
• 2004 As well as another, smaller appearance with hEar4Words at the Bradford Festival, also performed at Ilkley Literature Festival
• 2004 Occasionally performing at Reading's Bohemian Night
  

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