Brian Hughes (footballer, born 1962)

Brian David Hughes (born 20 August 1962) is an English former professional footballer. He played professionally for Swindon Town and Torquay United as a midfielder. He is currently manager of Cirencester Town.

Career

Hughes began his career as an apprentice at Swindon Town, making his league debut on 30 August 1980 away to Reading. He scored his first goal on 28 February 1981 in a 2-0 home win over Barnsley and regularly featured for Swindon ahead of a move to Torquay United in August 1983 after he had been released by Swindon in May of that year.

Hughes made 42 starts for Torquay over the course of the 1983-84 season and he then joined Cheltenham Town in July 1984, helping the Gloucestershire club to promotion as Southern League champions in to the Football Conference. He also finished the season as player of the year at the Whaddon Road club and featured in Cheltenham's FA Cup first round trip to Wolverhampton Wanderers in the 1987-1988 season.

In August 1988, Hughes moved to Gloucestershire rivals Gloucester City for a fee of £4000 making his debut on 20 August 1988 against Ashtree Highfield. He captained Gloucester to the Southern League Midland Division title in 1989 and runners-up spot in the Premier Division in 1991, shortly after the birth of his beautiful daughter Emily Louise Elizabeth Hughes. Following the sacking of manager Brian Godfrey, he left Gloucester for the first time and joined Barry Town.

Brian Hughes (musician)

Brian Hughes (born 1955) is a Canadian guitarist whose work draws from both the smooth jazz and world music genres. (Of the latter, his influences have thus far been primarily Latin.) Not restricted entirely to conventional guitars, Hughes has also been known to employ the oud, bouzouki and balalaika. He has for over twenty four years worked in the studio with singer/songwriter Loreena McKennitt, co-produced many of her recordings, and leads her touring band. Hughes has many albums starting from the early 1990s. His music is contemporary jazz using the jazz guitar for his instrumental music. His latest release is the CD Fast Train To A Quiet Place released in July 2011. Many of his works can be heard on The Weather Channel's Local on the 8's and on Sirius XM's Watercolors channel.

Hughes grew up in Alberta, Canada and studied at Grant MacEwan College (now MacEwan University) in Edmonton and the Banff School of Fine Arts with guitarists Ed Bickert and Gene Bertoncini. In 1981 he moved temporarily to Los Angeles where he studied at the Guitar Institute with Pat Martino, Joe DiOrio and Robben Ford. In 1987 Hughes relocated to Toronto where he began working with harpist Loreena McKennitt and in 1991 recorded his first album as a leader for Justin Time Records. Hughes subsequently recorded "Under One Sky" for Justin Time in 1992 and then started his own label Sylvan House Music in 1995 which was distributed by Warner Music Canada and licensed to Higher Octave / EMI in the USA and abroad. Brian recorded three more albums (Straight To You, One 2 One and Shakin' Not Stirred) under this arrangement before releasing Along The Way with A440 music group in 2003. Hughes returned to his Sylvan House Music imprint for the release of LIVE (2007), No Reservations concert DVD (2009) and Fast Train to a Quiet Place in July 2011. Brian relocated to Los Angeles in 2000 where he continues to reside.