| About Me (Rik Clay) Aged 25, I attended and completed both compulsory education (the national mind-control curriculum) and university, whilst working on a musical endeavour in which I released 2 albums nationwide, shot music videos and toured the UK & Europe religiously. My band 'FULC' received rave reviews and praise in the likes of Kerrang, Metal Hammer and Rock Sound magazine. The band occupied a good 6 years of my life in which I was lead guitarist and backing vocalist. Due to my musical passion, I developed skills in graphic design / web design / flash and all other things multimedia, as an aid for promotion. Shortly after FULC's demise in 2005, I began my own solo electronica project called 'Somewhere Not Here' and teamed up with the guys in 'Ten Seconds Of Chaos' from Leeds. Both were short-lived due to my urge for some true personal development. I realised a 'real job' was needed to fund my aspirations. Seven years, working in local independent record stores had to come to an end, and so I moved on to what I thought was the dream job - but oh, how I was wrong. Ethical travel company! Who thought of that one? An ethical travel company who's owner becomes a millionaire and buys a mansion in Greece, and then sells out to First Choice Holidays... poor poor gullible students. Never take an organised 'Gap Year' - do it yourselves! And so my perceptions started to shift to cut a long story short... I travelled to Egypt and took a boat up the Nile from Aswan to Luxor ... |
