Having taken early leave from school, Stephane aimlessly bounced from job to job round his home town, then one day the circus came to town and when the circus left, Stephane left with them!

Putting up show posters, helping with the big top and walking the ring ponies for a travelling circus was a great way to see the country. 

One of the circus clowns- Mr Pineapple Head, had an old 'barely playable' saxophone and told Stephane he could have it if he can learn to play it. 

Years later.... Having mastered Mr Pineapple Head's saxophone, and affording a 'more playable' instrument of his own, Stephane discovered the fine art of playing on forgotten windy street corners for tips.  With this handy fund-raising technique, Stephane adopted a romantic lifestyle drifting from town to town playing jazz music and open to whatever fortunes (or miss-fortunes) came his way.
Living in a car, or under canvas and traversing the less travelled roads of Britain, Stephane came across other like-minded troubadours, and formed the raggle-taggle street band ‘Swervy World’.

Stephane has produced and directed 11 albums, either with his band ‘Swervy World’ or under his street name ‘Mr Swervy'.

 

 To this day, Stephane can still be found travelling the highways and byways, as enthusiastic as the day he set out, with 'Connie' the trusty but rusty saxophone and ‘Lorraine’ the seriously underpowered motorcycle.