Since the age of 5 when he stood on stage at a Butlin's holiday camp and sang a song made up on the spot, Clive has been performing, creating and entertaining in one form or another. Born in St.Albans and brought up in a house next to the gasworks, on summer evenings he'd perch in a pear tree penning poems while steam trains rattled by.

Never one to miss out on a lead part in a school play or Gang Show, when punk hit the 70's it was the crucible fusing action and words. In the heady foment of that DIY revolution he created Xeroxed zines, postcard poems and cassettes of songs written on a stolen guitar.

He formed a band, Clive PiG and the Hopeful Chinamen, and his first single Happy Birthday Sweet 16 was a New Wave cult classic. Subsequently as a singer-songwriter he toured the USA and Canada and released 3 albums.

In between times he studied mime and physical theatre in London and Paris which subsequently led him into Theatre-in-Education, Community Arts, Children's Theatre and a one man show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Clive and his family now live in an old house at the end of a track on the edge of Dartmoor. From this haven he forays far and wide as a storyteller, songsmith and performance poet.

As well as appearing at festivals, art centres, theatres, libraries and museums, he performs in primary schools, prisons and old people's homes. He's sung songs at weddings and told jokes at funerals and has had his wordy way at happenings in deep dark woods, in haunted castles and on windswept moors.

In recent years he's appeared at the Glastonbury Festival, WOMAD, the Cambridge Folk Festival and the Westcountry Storytelling Festival. Two of his stories were featured on The Ocean, BBC Radio 2. His latest CD, Uncle Wolf, is a collection of songs with a twist and tales with teeth.

Three of Clive's poems appeared in Oddrot, Exeter's newest poetry journal and he won joint first prize in a competition run by Educating Kenyan Orphans. Apples and Snakes South West list him on their website as a featured poet.

2011 got off to a cracking start when he became one half of the Bard of Exeter and in February he embarked on a storytelling tour of schools in Bangkok. And now spring is in the air he's looking forward to yet another collaboration with poeticomedian John Hegley.

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