Gary Shail

Gary Shail began work in TV and film in 1977 and is best known for his roles as Spider in the 1979 cult classic film Quadrophenia and as Steve the punky teenager in The Metal Mickey TV Show Shail appeared in the 1980 series The Further Adventures of Oliver Twist and also played Oscar Drill in Shock Treatment the 1981 followup to The Rocky Horror Picture Show and as Guy Raines in the 1983 BBC production Johnny Jarvis He wrote the original songs and theme music for this production for which he received a nomination for the Ivor Novello Awards In 1988 Shail appeared as the tough pimp Billy White in the TV miniseries of Jack the Ripper starring Michael Caine He has also made appearances in the TV series The Bill and in Casualty and The Professionals In 1995 Shail began working with music production company Natural Sound Source in London producing music for television film and advertising In 2004 he produced the Arabic fusion album Infinity in Dubai In 2010 Shail was back in the recording studio working on his autobiographical selfpenned album Daze Like This A collection of new songs interspersed with some reworkings of some Johnny Jarvis themes The album received critical success but failed to reach a wider audience mainly due to Shails reluctance to embrace the new download generation In October 2015 Shails memoir I Think Im On The Guest List was published by New Haven Publishing Ltd