Before working in music production and engineering, Brockbank was a member of the 1970s folk rock band Wooden Horse then later the new wave band the Hitmen.
In 2004, Brockbank founded the Goldtop Studio, set up at Jungle Records' old vinyl warehouse (in which Goldtop Recordings is a label imprint of Jungle) in Chalk Farm Road, Camden which he ran along with Paul Laventhol and Bobby Irwin. After the Chalk Farm premises were vacated, the studio reopened as Goldtop at Gravity Shack, Tooting Bec in 2011.[2]
Brockbank died on 30 May 2017, after a short battle with cancer.[1]