Yearly Archives: 2016

Just a quick post to wish everyone a very merry Christmas and wishing you a wonderful 2017. It's beginning to look like a busy one, so I promise to keep…

My tribute and accompanying lesson based on the style of the great Irish guitarist Louis Stewart is in the current issue of Guitar Techniques (GT263), available now. Louis was a…

I had the great pleasure of contributing to a feature in the new Guitarist magazine called Master It Faster, alongside great musicians and educators, Phil Hilborne, Denny Ilett and Geoff…

It is with great pleasure that I can announce that my book, Improvising Blues Guitar, has been translated into Italian by Pierluigi Bontempi and published once again by Scott &…

It's been a busy couple of months, with fantastic gigs at both the Liverpool Philharmonic Music Room with Remi Harris and Robin Nolan and the Tribute to Django Reinhardt evening…

Hot off the press, the new edition of Robin Nolan's Gypsy Jazz Secrets. Featuring a selection of unique video interviews, performances and bite sized lessons, this month features the great…

There's two from me in the latest Guitar Techniques Magazine, a ten page tutorial on playing above the 12th fret and a style file analysis of the great Count Basie…

I'm proud to announce a show I'm doing a little later this year (September 3rd to be precise) with the fantastic guitarists, Robin Nolan and Remi Harris, at the new…

Last night's gig at the New Brighton Floral Pavilion went down fantastically well. The four lads that front the show, Asa Murphy, Steve Charles, Joe Speare and Jamie Somers were…

I played a fantastic gig last Wednesday with the mighty Mike Outram on guitar, Andy Trim on bass and Mark Rose on bass at The Bull's Head in Barnes. Mike's…