I am a singer-songwriter, teacher and pathological misfit living with my wife and a large number of cats in Northampton UK. I've been writing and performing in a range of guises since the mid-nineties, including twisted tales in open mic nights as Quicksand Kerry, time as a member of Leeds goth band Zeitgeist Zero an extended stint as Helen Held, The Girl No Man Can Hold, the UK's only performing drag escapologist.
Openly genderfluid with a dark sense of humour, my writing is inspired by jazz, punk rock, spirituality, identity, alienation and the absurd discrepancy between life and humanity as it's presented and how it actually is. Despite everything, though, I consider myself quite a positive person, believing that an optimist is one of the most subversive things you can be, if you do it right.
My current album, the self-produced " Songs From The Age Of Human Error" , is out now from all major MP3 and streaming sites, I also produce industrial metal music under the name Player Versus X? (PvX?) . You can check out both, along with the other weirdness I've got up to over the years, on my main site at http: //www.kjkmusic.co.uk.
This is a poem they don't want you to memorise.
You will not be required to answer questions on it
Nor be expected to ask any of your own.
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If having all the answers means no longer asking questions
Then wisdom's not all it's crack up to be
Smelting down the infinite for a sword and shield of truth
In a citadel of desperate certainty
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