Chipperfield's Circus, Led Zeppelin, Spike Milligan, Take That and Sooty – these are some of the people that Keith has never worked with. Undisturbed, this handsomely-wrapped enigma has still managed to set up shop as an anti-static old-school post-modern genius.

Born in Kensington, Liverpool, he comes from a long line of actors, theatre managers and puppeteers. He has worked extensively throughout the UK and Europe as an actor, director, stand-up poet and musician, although rarely simultaneously. Despite the changing climate, he maintains strong feelings for the well-cut overcoat.

Since leaving school, touring and recording in bands has been a constant in his life, along with Marmite soldiers, Liverpool FC, sharp suits and Syd Barrett. A guitarist, poet and author of peculiar songs, he has seen active service with the MUTANTS, GEISHA GIRLS, AFTER A FASHION, THE EXPLODING HAMSTERS, SPIDER MONKEYS, JEGSY DODD and most recently THE LOVETONES. As a headline act (both solo and with his band THE METHYLATED SPIRITUALISTS), he has toured extensively throughout the UK and Europe, and during a hailstorm of former lives has opened for numerous acts including the Jam, the Buzzcocks, Ultravox, the Police, Big Country, Nik Turner, Paul Weller, Elvis Costello, The Damned, Blondie, The Stranglers, Joe Strummer and Billy Bragg. Accidentally, he once found the lost chord, but has since misplaced it somewhere in the kitchen. (For more aural examination, unfurl your curly lead at www.myspace.com/methylatedspiritualist and plug yourself in). The lad has also worked in shipyard, enjoyed a brief fling with professional football and qualified as a social worker – what a week that was! He has never at any time however, been a tall, bearded pipe smoker with an affection for the cardigan.

His television work includes ROCK GOES TO COLLEGE and CLOSE UP NORTH (BBC), THE TUBE, CLUB X and RISE (Channel 4), SO IT GOES and THE FOOTIE SHOW (Granada) and for three years he had a regular slot on SOCCER SATURDAY (Sky Sports) delivering his own unique slant, and occasional rant, on everything and nothing with his opinionated, irreverent poetry. This led to a season working for ITV contributing tasty tit-bits to THE PREMIERSHIP and ON THE BALL (during which time he was short-listed for a Royal Television Society Award) and spent the 2002 World Cup working for Ireland's national broadcaster RTE. On his return, he showered, changed his undercrackers and was signed by BBC SPORT. He was now the country's only contracted sports poet. As a result, he has broadcast his eloquent and cheeky-chappy lip-service from almost every major sporting event, from the Olympic Games to Wimbledon. He has also been a regular contributor to ITV's Champions League coverage, working for the same broadcaster throughout the 2006 World Cup in Germany, despite his active indifference to the anaemic sausage. His creative flair and explosiveness in and around the box was snapped up by SETANTA SPORTS ( www.setanta.com ) in August 2007. Despite an inability to sit still, he writes a regular weekly feature for Premier League live football programmes and can be seen in person as himself each monday evening on the 'Football Matters' programme.

Blatantly disregarding his mum's advice, Keith joined under cover reporter Donal MacIntyre as co-presenter on the third series of MACINTYRE'S BIG STING (Channel FIVE). Broadcast towards the end of 2006, he brought his unique talents, a selection of hats and a dressing-up box to all six episodes of the crime-busting show. Although he misplaced some of his faculties and several pairs of pants during filming, he is still in possession of all of his own teeth and an enviable collection of hotel bed linen.

His written work for the stage includes IF YOU WERE ME and NATIONAL PASTIME (Amicus Youth Theatre 1978 and 1979) which both premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe, THE TROUBLE WITH MONEY and LIFE BLOOD (Risk! Theatre Company National Tours 1981 and 1982), SEVEN ANGELS and KARAOKE DEATH RATTLE (Blah! Blah! Blah! National Tours 1983 and 1986), IN THROUGH THE OUT DOOR (Mockbeggar Theatre Company National Tour 1992) and the highly acclaimed BALLS! (Unnecessary Act 1996), which opened a national tour at the Royal Festival Hall in London to kick off Euro '96 and has toured regularly ever since. He has never written anything other than biting, black comedy, nor has ever held a fully extended full-size trombone.

His work as Artistic Director of Masque Theatre, a nationally acclaimed disabled people's performance company based in Wirral, has yielded two national and eleven regional tours, plus numerous events of national and international significance. His written work for Masque includes OFF THE RAILS (1992), ACTING DIFFERENT (1994), TRADING FACES (1995), CHOICE WORDS (1998), EQUALLY FABULOUS (1999), DE PROFUNDIS (2001) and A QUESTION OF BALANCE (2005).

Keith has worked on numerous Theatre-in-Education projects, performance events and festivals, including five consecutive years contributing to Liverpool Festival of Comedy. As part of the Millennium celebrations he was Creative Director of a major European Theatre Project (Culture 2000) across the UK, Spain, Italy and Finland.

In 1998 he wrote, produced and scored the short film SKINFLICK, which opened at the British Pavilion in Cannes before touring film festivals across Europe. The three minute short FRIDAY THE FOURTEENTH (2000), which he wrote and directed, picked up an award at Kynnyskin 3 in Helsinki in April 2001. In 2002, he wrote and directed an extended trailer for a full-length feature WHATEVER IT TAKES, before the title was nicked and the project ran out of funds! Despite playing the part of hard man Mickey the Fish in the film, he has longer-than-normal-for-a-bloke eyelashes and appears to have no problem with a man bag.

The co-written book THIS IS ANFIELD CALLING (with Liverpool FC Match Day Announcer George Sephton) is back in the shops again after selling out of its original run, and his eagerly anticipated new volume IRRITABLE VOWEL SYNDROME is due out in 2008. Although fully aware of the advancement in building techniques, Keith is still partial to the corrugated iron roof and a well-constructed lean-to.