I was born in Dubbo NSW Australia. I grew up in country NSW Australia. I work in Cooma NSW, the gate way to the snow fields of Australia. I work for an organisation called Snowy Hydro LTD. I have this hobby of writing songs and have recently been using youtube and finding it opens up new challenges everyday. There is always someone new wanting to see what I am up to and always old friends checking up on me. I am a very easy going person. Tell me what you really think and I will appreciate that very much. My most successful song to date in terms of views is \"Sinkers Hooks and Things\". This carries the name of the album. In brief Doug payne is: Song Writer singer, Deep soul searching voice, Ballads and folky stuff of love and protest Willing to have a go at any song except rap might even do that one day.