Last week was spent in the Midlands playing South Pacific with a company I’ve been with since I was 19. It’s only an amateur show but they’re a good cast and I like to catch up with the friends I’ve made there.
I’m not a big fan of the South Pacific, with gaping plot holes a [...]

Sorry for the large break between posts. I was playing in South Pacific last week and I ended up having no time to write. I did however find an old video whilst I was digging through unnamed CD’s and DVDs in my old bedroom in Derby and thought I’d put it up.
It’s a video [...]

We’re set up,rehearsed, tanned and sound checked. Then the news arrives that the party is actually a masked ball, which was very exciting news. Especially as guests were to wear uniquely designed and hand-crafted Venetian masks that they had flown over from Italy to the palace a few days before. Each mask was worth between [...]

Back in the day (i.e. before I was around) Westend show work was seen often seen as being bellow the higher class of players, coming second to session work and other London gigs. These days however the Westend sees some of the finest musicians around sitting in their pit orchestras. Derrick Watkins, to source only [...]

Preparing for the Gig
I last left you with the band working hard sunning by the pool in a 5 star hotel and I’d promised a few snaps of the outside of the Palace. So here’s a picture of me in front of the palace and Mark in the fountains. Keep in mind that this is [...]