General Background
Born in Northampton, UK, Wagstaff studied History at the University of Exeter and got his master's degree in South East Asian Studies at SOAS. Before and after pursuing his master's degree, he worked as manager in a local bookstore in London.
Wagstaff is an avid musician of the post-punk rock genre, and was a founding member of British band "Puzzled But Dancing" as keyboard/synth player and vocalist. After "Puzzled But Dancing", he continued to write and record music, which was described by the Keyboard Magazine as "assimilat the sometimes floating, sometimes driving drums of Indonesian music with catchy techno-pop hooks and winding post-minimalist patterns." He resides in Singapore with his Indonesian journalist wife, Sari Sudarsono.
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