English rock guitarist Ferdy, originally hailing from the barren flatlands of the Fens in East Anglia came of age in a hostile household, listening to his father’s record collection of AC/DC, Alice Cooper, Motörhead and Black Sabbath became a way out of the stifling conformity. Taking guitar lessons from a local rock musician opened his mind to shred metal, progressive and punk rock finding a place to hibernate in the music and freedom from a repugnant repressed early family life in the lyrical themes of punk, embracing the rebellion against authoritative domineering figureheads.

After initial efforts of writing an albums worth of songs under the punk moniker Born-Dead (a snub on conformity through ignorance) never found a footing in the archaic world of middle England, Ferdy escaped his hometown for South London and took to formal music education, taking any gig he could from blues jams to wedding bands, folk dances to a stint with UK metallers Naked Aces. As a hired gun he sessioned for pop singer Abi F Jones, folk-rock outfit LA Underlined (then featuring Helen O'Hara ex-Dexys Midnight Runners), produced and performed on an EP for upcoming Jasmine Branca, and supplied a demo for a not-to-be tour with (unbeknownst to him at the time) The Prodigy, gaining a wide musical experience in the process.

With none of the projects taking off commercially, Ferdy took part-time work in a guitar store making connections with local musicians (one being actor/musician Stephen Hope-Wynne) and teaching guitar to the patrons, proceeding to influence as a music tutor, designing courses for colleges and authoring a guitar tuition book. His passion for performing and writing music soon eclipsed and more recently toured the UK with the likes of lifelike tribute act Motorheadache; die-hard punks We Die Heroes; and London based theatrical rock n' rollers Duchess.

Meeting Steve HW turned out to be fruitful, initialling jamming and writing a handful of songs together they recruited other musicians to assist with what would become SkyQuaker - an alternative rock band with punk ideology, apparent on their debut single Queen Kong; a satirical slight against communism and the atrocities of the pro-democracy movement happening in Hong Kong, featuring Russian dissident Vladamir Bukovsky. Ferdy practices a Chinese meditation form of Falun Gong and supports the People of Hong Kong. His early life and punk-rock ethics left an imprint of deploring oppression of any kind, Queen Kong became an ode to the people of China as well as a personal one.

Never content to restrict himself to one musical form he is concurrently writing songs for his own solo project - a mix of all his influences from the straight ahead rock n' roll of 70’s and 80’s rock, odd time signatures from his prog-rock influences and the melodies and form of his virtuoso guitar heroes.