Another article originally commissioned by Guitar & Bass Magazine. Reproduced here slightly updated, with the somewhat tounge-in-cheek ‘Day In The Life…’ sidebar included and with all of the text reinstated that had to be edited out of the original piece because of space restrictions. The tone of it is deliberately

A couple of years ago, a friend of mine got in touch to say that he was interested in finding out about Hawkwind and could I tell him more. So, I sent him a message in return which I hoped would be helpful. He replied a few days later saying

Recent digital innovations may very well have removed much of the fun from the messing-about-with-guitars-and-stuff business these days but luckily enough there are still enough traditionalists out there to support existing technologies, so the FX pedal market is still stuffed with manufacturers both large and small and despite some recent

The below piece was written in August 2008. This was when YouTube had been in existence for less than three years and before the explosion of social media. Facebook wasn’t a thing yet and most people were still tinkering with their first MySpace pages at the time. Its impossible to

During September 2018, I was invited to participate in Classic Album Sunday’s upcoming celebration of Sonic Youth’s ‘Daydream Nation’. This was to take place in the form of a full album playback and talk by myself and other guests at Portsmouth’s excellent Pie & Vinyl record shop. Having been given

If you nip up to Foyles on the Charing Cross Road and have a peruse of their impressive music department you can find a whole load of coffee table books dedicated to photographs of rare and valuable guitars. These will feature high quality reproductions of images of classic guitars with