If I had one pound, one euro or one dollar for every hour I've put into my music over the years I could retire tomorrow and sit around all day drinking fine wines and smoking big fat cigars of contentment.

Good job I don't smoke.

The truth is, if I want to put food in my mouth and a roof over my head I have to earn money outside the music business. And if I had to give myself a job title I guess it would be a Creative Communicator Supporting Disadvantaged People To Get The Same Life Opportunities As Other People.

Snappy, huh?

So I write words, I take photographs, I design brochures and websites and I put together funding proposals, usually focusing on supporting people with learning disabilities into work. My definition of learning disabilities, by the way, is pretty wide and includes people on the autistic spectrum.

 

I manage a variety of websites within the third sector in the UK, but it I had to pick a favourite right now, it would have to be a campaign called Aspirations For Life. You can find us at www.aspirationsforlife.org.

My photography also gives me a little work in the private sector or in the Jo Public sector, perhaps Jo wanting a great picture of her kids to give to Joe for his birthday.  And yes, I have a website for this too; it’s at www.richardlamplough.co.uk.

Curiously enough, when I was
young I wanted to be...
a dentist.

- Richard