Thanks for the help guys and the patience! I'll sort the power issue and retest the code. Assuming I get the LED's to be one given color, I'll be able to move onto the animation side of things 
I've also literally just stumbled on this page which I'm guessing shows the correct way to wire things?
Danois90:
Please do not add delay where you did, it will not do anything else than slowing down you code for no avail.
I did wonder about this. I'm assuming alto777 meant for me to add it after the show() but I'm still not entirely sure what the purpose of this would be here.
Danois90:
If you need animation in the strip / colors, you need to make that animation. Moving the "set all red" out of the main loop may be contra-productive if it is part of an animation on the strip.Low power mode is of course useless if you want to run an animation on the strip. My suggestion was aimed at the fact that you only wanted the strip to be red.
I'll move the code back into the loop once I've got a working set of lights 