Michael Weston King was born in Derbyshire in 1961 but brought in the sleepy Lancastrian seaside town of Southport. A grammar school education (he attended the same seat of learning as Marc Almond, although Almond was 4 years his senior),should have resulted in a university place, but firstly the influence of Marc Bolan and then, when he was 16, The Clash and Elvis Costello, led him to get a job and 'a down payment on a Fender Telecaster. ' He cut his musical teeth in various bands on the edge of the late 70′s/early 80′s Liverpool post punk scene, performing at the famed Eric's club just prior to it's closure, and leaving two singles and one 'cassette only album' gathering dust on the shelves of the legendary Probe Records. 'When the dream of becoming contemporaries to the likes of Elvis Costello and The Teardrop Explodes vanished, along with numerous managers who tried to steer us in a direction I hated (don't forget it was the time of Tears For Fears!), along with too many badrecord deals that never bore fruit, I took my acoustic guitar and headed for the folk clubs. ' http://www.michaelwestonking.com/ http://www.myspace.com/michaelwestonking