So there I was, messing about on my guitar last night and I came across a chord I didn’t remember ever having used before. It sounded nice so I thought I’d find out what it was called. A minute or so later I was on Chord Finder by jguitar.com and the rather simple chord I […]

I’m certainly not going to hold my breath though. Since catching pleurisy last year my voice has gone to hell. Having had a sore throat and a cough for the last five weeks or so hasn’t helped either. No, it’s not life threatening and yes maybe one day I’ll be able to speak properly again […]

By any measure 2021 was a weird year. It was dominated by the pandemic that has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and changed our way of life beyond recognition. We finally got rid of the lunatic Trump who politicised illness and suggested, seriously, that we should drink bleach to deal with it. We didn’t […]

I’d like to wish everybody a happy, peaceful and musical Christmas and I hope you have a wonderful day.  

In order to create a bit of space for my two new guitars I have to reluctantly sell a couple of guitars, the first is my 2017 Gibson HP 665 SB acoustic guitar. I bought this beautiful instrument from Gibson main dealer PMT in Manchester. It has never been gigged and is in pristine condition. […]

The second, and hopefully final, guitar purchase was this superb Taylor solid body electric guitar. Taylor don’t make these solid body electric guitars any more so the only market to buy them is the second hand one. This particular guitar is over 10 years old and came all the way from the colonies, New York […]

For those of use who play an instrument (however badly) there’s nothing quite like the thrill of getting a new instrument to play. For me it’s a guitar. I’ve recently spent some time thinking about what instruments I want to own and which ones I want to keep and I’ve decided to get rid of […]

I enjoyed the Deacon Blue concert last Sunday really enjoyed it. They were on good form and the concert itself was easily as good as any of their previous concerts I’ve been to. However….. I don’t understand what’s currently going on at concerts, musical concerts at least. Back in the day when you went to […]

I’ve listened to Deacon Blue for many years now, they’re one of my favourite bands, and I’ve seen them in concert several times. I finally got to see them again in Liverpool on Saturday night. I say finally because the concert was supposed to take place a year ago and was postponed because of Covid. […]

You can download each of my songs for just £1 and keep them forever. You could buy my CD for just £10 and get a free MP3 download as well. Just imagine how happy and complete your life is going to be when you can play my songs any time you like, wherever you like. […]