Despite classical training as a child and flirtations with various bands in the 1980's, by his own admission, Neil is at the beginning of his musical journey and is developing his own style whilst establishing a positive reputation. His first CD release was under the Geigertek project banner with German producer and programmer, Conrad Geiger, called "The Garden". Initial responses have been very positive with the music being described as ambient, atmospheric, and filmic, with an underlying classical feel on some of the pieces. "The Garden" has been signed leading independent music label AD Music, a label that explores electronic music, new age, melodic & rhythmic chill out styles, with occasional ambient and ethnic influences.

Neil's musical influences will be very obvious to many listening to his work. Without shame, he happily and enthusiastically cites as his main influences people such as John Foxx, Mike Oldfield, Isao Tomita, Gary Numan, Jean Michel Jarre, Ultravox, Kraftwerk and Enigma, as well as the great composers of the late 19th/early 20th centuries, such as Ralph Vaughan Williams, William Walton, Frederick Delius, Benjamin Britten, Gustav Holst and Pyotr Tchaikovsky, indeed the very music he listens to when not writing or recording himself.

Neil is an advocate of the use of modern technology for the creation of music. His personal recording studio is of contemporary design and build, setup around an AMD Athlon-based computer system, using VST synthesizers and effects units. Hardware and cabling has been kept to the absolute minimum to ensure a clutter-free environment within which to work - more details of his studio can be found HERE. Neil strongly favours the production techniques of the late German producer, Conny Plank, and his ardent belief in the enormous possibilities of electronic music by creating stunning electronic soundscapes and blending them with conventional or natural sounds, or by using them in unconventional ways, such metal containers or other industrial objects as percussion instruments, or with the use of a sampler, as a unique tuned instrument. Neil believes the production process to be as important as the creation of the music in the first place and therefore takes time to learn the capabilities of the equipment and software he uses.

Neil has been fascinated by the synthesizer for most of his life and happily spends many hours seeing what new things his various synthesizers can do, of note is that he considers himself very fortunate that the woman on his life, Anne, is very understanding and tolerant of the time spent making noises and bangs, or tweaking sounds to get them just right. The advent of the computer-based recording studio and sound generation using software has enabled him to enjoy the endless possibilities provided by some of the top synthesizers ever built, adding to his collection virtual versions of classic synthesizers such as the Minimoog, Moog Modular, OSCar, ARP 2600 and Odyssey. Neil considers that time has proven the worth of these figures of the past and that they do have a secure place still in the modern music scene and he states that they will be key players on future Geigertek productions.

Neil ejoys art, photography and video and these are areas that he hopes to bring to the Geigertek stable in the not too distant future.

Neil's other passion is the Paranormal. He and his partner Anne have been involved in a field of paranormal research known as Instrumental Trans-Communication (I.T.C.). More details on this can be found HERE. Neil has made a number of TV appearances associated with his invovlement in the paranormal, not least a feature on BBC1's "Inside Out", details of which can be found HERE, an appearance on Living TV's "Jane Goldman Investigates", where he spoke about I.T.C. and his work. He has also written related articles for a number of magazines and other publications.