ShadowPlay Official Site

Born:

12th May 1979 in Perth, Western Australia.

Tools of the Trade:

Roland XP- 60 synthesiser with 16-track sequencer and 4x expansion, Roland SP- 808 sampler, Ultimate keyboard stands, Roland expression pedals, Software: Cakewalk Sonar, Steinburg Nuendo, FL Studio, Absynth 4 and various other soft synths.

Significant Influences:

Front Line Assembly, Fear Factory, Delerium (any album produced by Rhys Fulber), Infected Mushroom, Rammstein, Pink Floyd, Devin Townsend, Metallica, The Church, Simple Minds, The Cult, Opeth, Pantera, Paradise Lost, Steve Vai, VAST, Haujobb, Dream Theater....too many to mention.

Essential Listening:

Front Line Assembly - Artificial Soldier
VAST - Visual Audio Sensory Theater
Pink Floyd - The Division Bell
The Church - Priest=Aura, Starfish
Paradise Lost - Symbol Of Life
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Ocean Machine - Biomech
Dream Theater - Awake
Metallica - Metallica
Delerium - Chimera
The Cult - Pure Cult

Essential Viewing:

The Crow
Lord of The Rings I & II (Fellowship Of The Ring, Two Towers)
The Green Mile
Nosferatu
An American Werewolf In London
Austin Powers II (The Spy Who Shagged Me)
The Matrix

Passion:

Keeping fit (working out, running), multimedia design, food (indian, burmese, japanese, chinese....but hey, i'll eat almost anything), environmental issues, travel, South-West Australia, good times, good company.

Philosophy:

"The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Biography:

Born in Perth, WA I started playing piano at the age of 8 learning the suzuki method of classical piano. At the age of 16, I started learning guitar of which I took many of my metal and hard rock based influences. At 18, I played lead/rhythm guitar for a working cover band, playing in the metro area as well as touring the goldfields and other rural locations across WA.

I continued to play synth and guitar as the band went through many line-up changes. It wasn't until February 2000 that I received a response to an online ad from Linus. I thought I'd see what they were about and was instantly amazed at the raw talent and energy that were Duane, Linus & Con.
I took on the workload of the two bands for a number of months before focussing all my energy to ShadowPlay, leaving the financial benefits of the Perth cover scene. It's been the best decision I've made to date.