The Waterline is my first solo album. After releasing four albums with Freedom To Glide I've experienced a completely different journey creating this album. Musically, it's the culmination of the vast array of artists I've been inspired by in my life as a musician. So there are elements of rock, pop, jazz, folk, country, prog, classical and I'm sure a fair few other less obvious genres.

The analogies to do with the ocean seem endless to me and when I reflect on my song-writing on the four albums of Freedom To Glide it’s clear how often I’ve referred to the sea, sailing, waves, the horizon, icebergs etc. Maybe it’s just in my blood. I grew up in a coastal town, Sunderland. My Grandad was a fisherman and the sea has always been a part of my life I’d always taken for granted. That was made clear when I met my wife Ali who grew up in Coventry, she adores the sea and will make a bee-line for it in any weather! Trust me, ANY weather! I adore her so I always go of course.

Infinity Blue is the ocean. Imagine that ocean is life. The waterline of a boat is an often used analogy in psychology. Most of the everyday activity aboard a boat occurs above the waterline yet what happens below is mission-critical so it has to be kept in good shape. We're all just boats on the water.