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Richard

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Membership:	Gold Talent User Annual
Talent Category:	Musician
Speciality:	Guitar
My interests:	Music
My skills:	Golf
Top 5 movies:	2001 A Space Odessy, Chicago, Saving Private Ryan, The Sting, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Top 5 bands, composers, or musical artists:	The Beatles, Eric Clapton, Pink Floyd, The Who, Mark Knopfler
Top 5 TV Shows:	The West Wing, Life on Mars, Prime Suspect, 24, Lost
Professional Status:	Amateur
Height:	5'9" - 5'10" (174 cm - 178 cm)
Body Type:	A Few Extra Pounds
Hair Color:	Brown
Eye Color:	Green
Languages:	English

Tell us about yourself

I live in Warrington, Cheshire though I'm originally from Harrogate in Yorkshire. I moved here in 1993 when I worked for DEC as a software account consultant. I've worked in IT since 1970 and am now the Technical Manager for TalentGold Ltd and as such am responsible for this web site. There's still lots of additional things we plan to do to make this site a must for anyone involved in or aspiring to get involved in the entertainment business. We'd love to hear from you and get your comments about the site and the things you'd like to see on it.

We hope that you find the site entertaining and beneficial whether you're an individual performer or band, musician or acrobat, whatever your interests are we want to provide you with an environment where you can share ideas with other members, find like minded people, maybe enter into one of our online Talent Competitions that we will be running regularly, get your friends to vote for you as they can win prizes too.

Backstory

I started playing guitar at 14 when I was at school in the sixties. My early efforts were to try and copy The Beatles, The Shadows, Bob Dylan, Donovan etc and in 1968 I made my public debut at Knaresborough Folk Club with a former school pal Richard Hardacre. I was well into the folk club scene in the Leeds area until the mid-seventies when family came along and didn't do much again until a chance meeting with Chris Simpson of Magna Carta at a party in 1986 got me going again just doing a few songs with them at local pub gigs. That lead to meeting up with some other guys and forming Straiz which was a 5 piece covers band playing local pubs and clubs in the Harrogate area. We split up in 1992 and went our separate ways and it was shortly after that I moved over to Warrington. I still pick up the guitar occasionally and have played the odd gig over here but that's all.

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