I started out as a pop star, that's all I wanted to be - then I realised I was never going to be a Beatle so I went into acting.
[on his membership of the SAS Band] We do a few gigs a year and try to hold our own mini Woodstock (1970). We have guest singers like Fish from Marillion and Tony Hadley.
I prefer theatre work to TV because you have more control of yourself on stage, you're not dictated to by camera angles and lighting.