Category Archives: Friends

Ooh, forgot to mention before… if you’re looking to pick up some jazz guitar skills, but have no idea where to start, my friend Matt is bloggishly documenting his own chronologically accurate journey of discovery… Swing to Bop

What with the football, a week in the Lake District, a number of weekends away and the general stream of transcribing, guitar-magazining and bluesjamtracking, I just haven’t really done much guitar playing recently. That is to say, I always have … Continue reading →

So, last weekend marked the sixth annual uk.music.guitar national get-together. I’ve been to four of the six and find myself developing an almost complacent expectation that the event will be exciting, amusing, interesting and inspiring in equal measure. A number … Continue reading →

As you know, I always like to support people who Do Their Stuff independently of the corporate mainstream. And when those people are my friends, hey, they even get free advertising here! Jon Boyes is a classical and flamenco guitarist … Continue reading →

I was in Albrighton, Shropshire over the weekend, the occasion being the fifth annual UKMG National. As usual, a lot of people got together to play a lot of guitar, while drinking a lot of beer and generally having a … Continue reading →

A little bit of new music. It’s a short collaboration with my good pal Rick Booth… Talking About Nothing on a Summer Evening (3.2MB mp3) Here’s how it happened… Rick gave me a recording of his guitar part, a solo … Continue reading →

Once I get going, I just can’t stop… still in my feverish froth of musical inspiration, I did another quick recording this afternoon. It’s another piece for the Recording Collective mentioned in the previous entry. The task was to reinvent … Continue reading →