As Frank Kearns, Francis Xavier was the founder and guitarist with legendary rock band Cactus World News, whose debut album sold over a quarter of a million copies worldwide and whose music was featured on TV dramas such as ‘Miami Vice’. He began his musical career as the lead guitarist with seminal Dublin North side band, ‘FRANKIE CORPSE AND THE UNDERTAKERS’, formed in 1976 with fellow Mount Temple pupil Neil McCormack, author of ‘I was Bono’s Doppelganger’. After Frankie Corpse and the Undertakers were ahem, laid to rest in 1977, Kearns formed THE FAST (world’s first Ramones tribute band). Then came THE MYSTERMEN (1979), BLUE RUSSIA (1980), CACTUS WORLD NEWS (1984) and SAND PUZZLE (1994) He has composed music for film, most recently, ‘The Laws of Attraction’. He has also recorded and produced and played guitar with a variety of artists, including screen star Colin Farrell. That’s Kearns playing raunchy in-your-face guitar on Farrell’s version of ‘I Fought the Law’, a song used in the acclaimed Irish film ‘Intermission’. As a musician and composer, FX has been called ‘ a force of nature’ and a ‘sonic alchemist’ and his guitar playing has been singled out for praise across the world. Amongst other tributes, FX’s fretwork has received plaudits for its’ uncanny ability to transform and alter moods, and pull ‘emotional magic out of the ether’. Sometimes unnerving, often possessed of an uncompromising power in its’ unwavering quest for melody, FX’s guitar is always inventive and distinctive, at times oddly beautiful. ‘Walking the Waves’, FX’s new instrumental album, builds upon his reputation for seducing, cajoling and sometimes overwhelming the listener into an alternative state of mind. He has corralled all his musical experience and passion to produce a stunning new album, a remarkable coming-into-focus of a musician’s particular vision. FX is a composer who is always seeking and travelling, experimenting and investigating, uncovering and taking risks to get beneath the surface of an individual experience. Now with the release of ‘Walking the Waves’, the journey continues.