Rick J Leach

Rick Leach (born 1961-you'll have to work his age out with a calculator), is by day a long-suffering Civil Servant living and working in Liverpool, Merseyside. By night, and whenever a stray moment comes along, he tries to write books.

He has two grown-up children and has been married for just over 25 years. He became a first-time grandfather in January 2015 but despite that, he still considers himself to be cutting edge and hip. (Nobody else does however.) Oh,and there's also a dog as well.

Neither of his children nor his wife can fathom out his love of (and obsession with) obscure,noisy and largely unlistenable music; but after 25 years of hearing The Fall played frequently in the house, in the car and on various holiday locations they realise that it's a lost cause and you can't really teach an old dog any new tricks.

He has written three books about going to the Glastonbury Festival.

The first "Turn Left at the Womble", is all about his first ever visit at the ripe old age of 48, along with his daughter and her best mate in tow.

The second, "Left Again at the Womble", recounts the story of how in the following year, he couldn't get a ticket, but ended up working a bar during the festival.

He has also written a book about music and lots of other stuff, "Totally Shuffled",one track a day that shuffled up at random on his iPod, every day for a year. 366 different tracks by 366 different artists. At least 500 words a day for a year. It turned out to be quite a large book.

His third (& final!) book about the whole Glastonbury Festival experience; "Tea & Toast & Rock & Roll", covers 2013 (when he went solo) and 2014 (when he eventually persuaded his 24 year-old son to tag along with him.)

He is still trying to churn out an as yet untitled novel and trying to avoid putting too many references to music in it.