If you are the kind of person who reflects upon your life from time to time......then you have probably identified various episodes/happenings which were pivotal - or at least appear to have have been pivotal - in molding you into the particular version of yourself that you are today. Someone gave you your first book, or took you fishing for the first time. You met someone with whom you found you shared a common interest. Someone used or abused you. But some aspects of...

This is Lil’ Red . The guitar - not the bottle cap......which is also red. I bought Lil’ Red some time in the later part of 2007 and for a long time it was my only acoustic guitar. This meant that it sort of had to do everything: standard tuning, Drop D, Double Drop D and DADGAD. And it performed admirably. Lil’ Red comes from a series of acoustic guitars that Ibanez ran for a while, called the Exotic Wood Series. At the time I purchased Lil Red , it was one of only thre

Well. We’re almost a quarter of the way into 2026. And what a year it’s been thus far. Bombs are falling down in some place far away. Commodity prices are going up in some place close by. Politicians are telling lies, safe in the knowledge that they will never really have to answer for having done so. The useful idiots who still dare to call themselves ‘journalists’ are propping up their favourite politicians, confident in the knowledge that they are on the ‘right side of

This, as the name tends to suggest......is my Blog. Which makes this my first 'Blog Post'. It's late, so I'm going to keep things pretty brief. But in the coming weeks and months etc, my plan is to 'blog' on a semi-regular basis - primarily about the music that I have made and am making. J.