I’ve had a couple of the guys from the Quarter Tones (as seen on the Eurobusk Documentary) stay around at my apartment for the past few days. We’ve been putting together ideas for our next tour in a few months as well as cataloging the footage from the last trip.
I had done this before but [...]

The weekend starts. Work begins.
I’m not really moaning about it, having a weekend full of gigs is great but I am starting to forget what should happen for normal people on a Saturday mornings. I’m sure it shouldn’t involve getting up before 7am.
This weekend is packed full of my “summer job” of playing Indian weddings. [...]

With the possibility of moving back to Birmingham a party in London and a nice peppering of gigs it’s been hard to keep up with my usual frequency of post. So here’s brief catch up of all the things that I haven’t had the chance to post about.
Eurobusk 08
The trip was great as always. [...]

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 [...]