This is my first blog. What is a blog exactly? Its quite narcissitic to think that anyone other than my mum cares enough about my life to read this. Even so, if no one reads this, I guess it it will serve as a journal of my life for myself as my memory begins to deteriorate... it will probably also provide some much needed therapy...

Been so busy recently. But of course, thats a good thing. Since the showcase theres been a lot of media interest and there may be a possiblity of something coming out of the publicity. Will keep you posted. At the moment I'm working on some music for a short film for RTHK in Hong Kong. Client wants something in realm of Morricone... should be interesting. Working on another of Kevin's tunes which should be a little more upbeat. I'm remixing one of Mae's recordings, summer breeze. When I say remix, I mean re-record and mix the tracks again, not create a trance anthem. Im also going to record some guitar demos and a few of my own tunes.

Need to find a preamp groove tube for my Fender Blues deluxe after it was damaged at the showcase gig. Seem quite difficult to get hold of at the moment as they are specific to the blues deluxe. I hope thats all thats wrong with it. All I can see is that one of the tubes isn't glowing like the others so I assume this is the problem. I'm a tube amp 'noob'.

One question on my mind recently about guitars/guitarists. Since some of us spend years finding the 'right' guitar and customising our setups etc. But... is it a mark on your ability when you can't play something on someone elses guitar or is it the guitar? Some people say its down to the ability of the player, but I reckon it sometimes really does depend on the guitar. Could Andy Mckee still play as well on a 60 quid jobbie from argos?!