after living on the dole for about 10 years , i finally started to get paid for making music when i was in my first band.
after that i used what was left over from that money to buy studio equiptment and hooked up with a guy who had a studio but no time to use it
( extremelly lucky break no.1)
i moved into his studio with my gear and slowly atarted to get his gear repaired and got the studio into some kind of working order.
it was based in the attic of a pub that was owned by the same guy so we were rent free for a time , and then i met chris lib.....
( lucky break number 2)
we worked on a few tracks together while the studio became a collective and studio time became tight.
then i was introduced to kris needs......
( lucky break no 3)
we started working on remixes under his secret knowledge name.
we did the orb , jesus jones , and a couple of things for eye q , which started to generate some cash , at that time the s.u.f sessions were coming in thick and fast which also generated a little extra cash. along with one or two gigs.
i eventually decided to move the studio out of collective hands ( as the gear mostly belonged to me by this stage)and over to brick lane on my own.
since then the studio has paid it's own way and generated enough money to live on.
recently i have been dj'ing to earn money , leaving my weeks free for me to write music on my own , and not have to rent out the studio so often.
it's not easy to make ends meet , but i get by. sometimes things are good
sometimes not.
for now i am renting a 3 bed house in kent , one of the bedrooms is the studio and that arrangement works pretty well.
i am hoping to buy a place next year.
i sometimes completely freak myself out by thinking...

" what if i wake up tomorrow and all my gigs are cancelled?"

etc etc ....
it's pretty scary living like this sometimes. but it's worth it.