Well firstly thank you so much for all your support and advice on blogging. So to carry on who is Kendo where was I? the only reason I ask that is because at the moment I am sitting in college typing this on my iPad, the iPad 1 I thought the iPad 2 was not going to bring to much to me so I would wait for no3. Anyway I had to bring a large 6ft square painting I had been working on at my film studio in for my assessment which is tomorrow and being at college I can’t get onto the blog as it is restricted being a naughty website I suppose. Let’s see I think I was stripping with twelve hundred screaming women and a lizard called Jakey on my shoulder for company.

So Stripping was one step, be it a big step away from being a pop star or living the life, screaming mad women, drink and drugs, or so I was told by the rest of the strippers I came into contact with, well not that type of contact with. I did learn to enjoy stripping but you do have to have a level of confidence that might usually be hidden away.

One good thing about being in a group was the laughs you had travelling around and maybe I will touch base with the laughs so to speak in another blog.

So freshly out of HMP on the Friday and getting my kit off on the Sunday in London, that Sunday I was trying to get out of London and after great advice from Simon I drove the wrong way over a major bridge, yes and knocked, what did he say “Welcome back to climax” wanker.

Then he hit me with the do you fancy doing a porn film line and he was back in my good books. My first shoot I finished the shoot and thought to myself, how the fuck, sorry every so often I will slip from the queens English into my native southern tongue. How the fuck does anybody do this on a day to day basis, stressful yes, very stressful yes yes yes.

I met the guys at Playboy and they commissioned our first pilot, we shot the pilot and they commissioned another eight films. We shot those and they commissioned sixteen, then thirty we shot around two hundred films for Playboy with me playing the Sex Therapist Neil Down and a fellow strip group member playing my sidekick Phil Mycock. you’ve got it the words were, Hi Neil Down and Phil Mycock, what do you mean corny? Come on we used to take the piss so much out of ourselves dressing up like a couple of idiots that the whole of the British public loved us, even my nan. Well that’s what we kept telling ourselves. We shot a series called So You Wanna Be A Porn Star, that was funny as fuck. That all came about due to me making a mistake with a newspaper advertisement.

Back fifteen years ago there were no model agencies like today, and the models wee not on the whole as good looking as they are today, a lot were fucking mingers to say the least, not all mind. So in my wisdom I decided to place an advert with some newspapers looking for models, but I forgot to put female models required. Yep every man and his dog wanted to be a porn star, and yep every man and his dog thought he could be a porn star, and then when the words ACTION were called the realism there are very very very very very few males who can actually do the job, or do it well.

We shot a series called The Ministry Of Sex, again all about the humour and then it hit me like the man flu that only men get, Boom, like a tonne of bricks, boredom. Yes I got bored, I got bored with shooting the same old gonzo sex, red head lights everywhere the studio looked more like Wembley stadium. If I don’t have a challenge I get bored quick and when that happens I can’t be assed, that’s me. So I had to reinvent me.

I was at Erotica when the reinvention happened. I walked onto a Queensway stand spoke to the guys there about their best selling DVD and they gave me a Tanya Hyde film called Waistland. I took it home watched it and Kendo was born.

I never thought of myself as being into fetish films, it was not so much about the fetish aspect that I loved with this film, rather the stylisation. I loved that, studying Fashion at college for a while before giving it up to peruse my Bodybuilding dream, I had always had a love for style. This was my in, my in to a new look a new beginning and my first film that I shot for about two thousand pounds, Masks The light and The Dark, got nominated for three AVN’s one being Best Cinematography not bad for a film that cost in total what most scenes start at.

Part Three to come next week all about how my style has been honed into what it is now.