"I started singing in school choirs when I was younger and eventually went into singing lessons where I was told that I was a bit on the tubby side to sing properly and that to be good I needed to lose weight!!! The lessons after that were very short lived but I still sang every chance I got, whether it was hanging out the side of a moving vehicle, belting out Aretha Franklin to the locals in town, or sitting campfire style on the middle of the living room floor whishing I'd made it to Live Aid!"

Even when I was still inside the egg, I was listening to a wonderful array of music and when I finally hatched, well that's when the madness really started!

At a very early age I was listening to the intro songs to the soap opera's my mother watched and from what she tells me I would stop dead in my tracks and step into a different plain of existence until it was finished.

Shortly after that, I received my first tape recorder and keyboard for Christmas; using the tape recorder to record my voice, my words, and parts of amateur piano duets so I could play along to them on a Casio keyboard. As it turned out, I was quite content with these two items and would not leave the confines of my room for years to come.

When I turned nine, while everyone else was listening to what ever was playing on the top ten chart at the local FM radio station, I started getting into the music everyone's parents and grandparents were listening to. I loved every minute of it and got quite used to my friends telling me that I should have been born in the fifties so I could have been in my prime for the sixties flower generation.

I also started singing in school choirs when I was younger and eventually went into singing lessons where I was told that I was a bit on the tubby side to sing properly and that to be good I needed to lose weight!!! The lessons after that were very short lived but I still sang every chance I got, whether it was hanging out the side of a moving vehicle, belting out Aretha Franklin to the locals in town, or sitting campfire style on the middle of the living room floor whishing I'd made it to Woodstock along with Joni.

At 15, I got my first acoustic guitar and played frustratingly to myslef for only a short while, I still have it and it still bares the dust from when I last put it down a long time ago.

The years that followed were often spent marvelling at the wonderful things that have been achieved by so very many amazing artists (The list of course is far to lengthy and would use up all remaining available web space on earth!).

At the present time, with everything I have absorbed from my life of musical exploration, and the wealth of knowledge I have accumulated from working with R Cat, I am now working on my first album. So far, it has been an absolute rollercoaster ride and it keeps getting better and better with the completion of each song!

The most amazing high I think anyone could have is listening to music for so long and always being enthralled by each new sound that tickles the inside of your ears, stomach, and heart with an indescribable feeling, and then finding out there's a hole new and completely different side to all of it that's even more amazing. My true high is being fortunate enough to have been shown it and being given the opportunity to work with it!

I am the type of person who's motto is “no matter how bad things get...” So I don't feel I have really experienced anything I would consider to be a significant low point.

Ahhhhhh, It would have been great to have been in that band of Astronauts in space!!!

My first CD will be unleashed by R Cat Records very soon!.

Colin Lynch (lyricist, instrumentalist, composer, and producer)

All R Cat Studios stuff: Cort S2550, Washburn D12S acoustic (Martin Strings), Takmine thingyo acoustic, Cort Jazzbox, Fender Stratocaster, Rickenbacker 4001 bass, Cort bass, Shima JN70 Classical acoustic, Edirol, Native Instruments, and Steinberg VST instruments, Studiologic keyboard. Digitech RP7 DSP board, Cubase SX, Mackie mixers, Edirol stuff, Roland rack stuff, Samson and AKG mics, Sennheiser, Sony, AKG monitor headphones.

Vocal chords and brain.

My first time in a developing recording studio was in the R Cat basement that we worked so hard to establish. Working those long gruelling shifts in the insane asylum for the musically impaired, and building it up to where it is now was worth its effort in platinum.

I've sung quite a bit, usually gospel, usually Mahalia Jackson.

Joni Mitchell - Hits, Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti, Kate Bush - The Dreaming, Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells III, and The Beatles - Abbey Road.

1. Reduced ridiculousness from politicians.

2. For everyone who means well to live in a worry-free society.

3. For everyone in the world to at least try refraining from eating animals!

I was human but I ran like a cheetah with my feet and hands on the ground leaping and bounding fast and I managed to get a lot of air between jumps so there was that extra flying feeling bonus. There was no particular mission or point to the dream just running for the hell of it

Drink tea, work at one job, then at the other job, and then at the other job, come home and have as much fun as possible for as long as possible doing things like listening to music, recording, walking, or watching a film, and then its off to slumber hotel. Rinse, lather, and repeat and take photographs to prove it!

In this next year I plan to work on my album, learn either Japanese or English, and continue putting all other available spare time into R Cat and its bright and wonderful prosperous future.