Act Doyle, for whom the recording work takes place in London, UK, was formed by Doyle himself when he set light to a project that has "absorbed the collaboration of several other musicians to achieve the desired effect" ... it's an intriguing effect. The first album project known as Everything Takes Forever (a phrase Doyle describes as a whinge about how long it has all taken) is a fine example of "compromise, patience, independence" and talent. In Doyle's music we are blessed with a banquet of original songs written over a 20-year period and embellished by Doyle's colleagues, gifted and mature musicians.

The principal songwriter and lead vocalist is Mick Doyle. Michael Doyle first recorded professionally at the age of 18 years when he and his original song-writing partner, Darrell Shilling, recorded There's Good Rockin Tonight (formerly recorded by Elvis Presley), Look Out Your Window (a product from Shilling's first band The Big Sleep) and Celebration of Life (a Shilling and Doyle collaboration). These early recordings were never released.

Doyle and Shillings paths to creative recognition would have to embrace far more personally experiential and challenging journeys than the instantaneous fame that may have destroyed them both. Shilling, Doyle's initial song-writing partner and close friend, died tragically in 1996, but not before he had left his indelible mark. Tragedy had almost befallen the pair together in 1991 when, at the height of their exploitative youth, they were involved in a high-speed car crash in France in which the driver died. Doyle responded by burying himself in study, obtaining a B.A. (Hons) degree in London "reading" Theological Studies (perhaps an early sign of an enquiring mind). Until Shilling's death in 1996, the pair wrote together frequently in Sark, British Channel Islands and performed in London and the Channel Islands as an accoustic duet. Doyle inherits the legacy of Shillings inspiration though he explains that he "knew he would write songs from the first time he ever heard Changes on David Bowie's Hunky Dory album".

Michael Doyle is not political, but is intensely expressive about issues of life and philosophy. One only has to study the lyrics of Survival or The Present to make this observation. Wrapped in energy, these conceptual ideas search through lyricism born out of Mike Doyle's own personal life. Having "completely given up" on life in the UK due to "it's rat race mentality" Michael Doyle began an apparently reclusive life on the remote island of Sark where he remained steadfast for ten years. This was not before a three-month spell in Dublin, Ireland with the Legionnaires of Christ (a South American based highly intellectual rigorous Catholic order) and myriad equally searching "experiences". His experiences however are far from strictly spiritual. He worked as a waste paper trader in the City of London and began his financial career "selling sweets in the school playground" before studying law for a spell at Holborn in London.

From his strictly Irish roots, Michael Doyle, one of six, through networking with "likeminded individuals" managed from his Sark home to build a business that operates world-wide and created enough wealth to resurrect his musical act, having arrived on the Island of Sark with no contacts and "less than a fiver". It's an intriguing story. He met his wife Belinda on Sark and they produced three children together, Jack, Catherine and Joseph. With the three children from Belinda's previous marriage, Michael became the father of six in a very short space of time. They are to this day a very close family. Sark itself is an extreme place with no cars and amazing scenic beauty. During those ten years Mike Doyle set himself to the task of song-writing and it is from this tranquil location that Doyle seems to have drawn the "strength and energy" to produce the music that fulfils his dream. His dream however, though born out of what appears to be an often-painful experience, now exudes a tantalisingly exciting prospect for the world's musical and philosophical future. Doyle produces sounds so wonderfully diverse and so carefully nurtured in production that one feels compelled to hear them over and over again.

"Music for me is not about fame but it is about glory, it's about self
expression of will and experience ... music is a medium of expression that intrinsically demands to be shared ... and I have always felt such an innate desire ..."

Doyle has bundles of energy and finds release through his act. Given his background, the quality of those involved, his clear song writing ability and unique vocal tone, it is a dream rightly declared a "vocation". Enjoy.

Musical influences are vast: These are some of the better known ones are Morrissey, The Doors, Mozart, Sade, Depeche Mode and U2.