 In the early years, John was the front man of a four-piece band called "The Ignition" that toured in the early to late 1980s.Following that he became a solo performer and Granada Television presenter "Johnny Dangerously", introducing a local Saturday morning magazine programme "Xpress" that included one of the first TV appearances for KFM Radio personality Caroline Aherne in her Mrs. Merton role.In this guise he also released "You, Me and the Alarm Clock", named in "The Guardian" newspaper as one of "greatest albums you've never heard".