My Car Loves An iPod
It’s a job that Tom is back to his Satnav ways. I have a killer weekend ahead. In 3 days I have 3 gigs and I’ll be in 3 cities. Bedford, Northhampton and London. I’ll be traveling 364 miles for…
My Friend Tom
It’s been a busy few days. I started the week by spending six hours on the phone with the people at Tom Tom trying to re-activate the map software after it came back from a warranty repair. The perseverance paid…
A New Year In Abu Dhabi
Well it looks like I’ll be celebrating this New Year in Abu Dhabi. A few weeks ago Neil asked if I would go with “Chris Poole and the Shades” for a gig abroad this new years. I met this Soul group…
A Late Post And Long Day
I’ve had an intensive day of pounding through jazz standards with Jonny before he went back to London. We played for a good 5 hours and I carried on practicing those good old half-diminished scales well after he’d gone -Woo-Hoo!…
Jazz Duo
My good pal Jonny is heading up from London tomorrow to work on our duo material. This is a fairly new project that we are working on together and the majority of our material to date are some of the…
Pirate or Clown?
All for the love of music!!! Now the question is. Which one of these outfits did I spend the last 48hours gigging in? As cool as it could be to gig as a pirate it was actually the clown outfit…
Mobile Blogging = Success
I half expected yesterdays post to be 3 sizes to small and in some obscure font but it seems nice an normal. Mobile blogging has passed it’s first text. I wouldn’t say it’ll be my regular way to post as…
Sound On Sound
on sound on sound on sound Now I’ve got my money back from Turnkey it’s party time! But what to buy? I’ve done some research on how I can turn my macbook a portable studio. I only know the basics…
Inappropriate Improvistion
I’ve been playing for Indian Weddings for a few years now but this year the work has really picked up with these gigs. They’re not the toughest or the most typical gigs you’ll ever do but these days we have…
My Pupils Performing
Earlier this week I saw my pupils in action at there school concert. I was so impressed with all of them, from the beginners to the more experienced players – they made me very proud. The star of the…