There are now photos of my appearance at The Living Room up on their site. I’d like to point out that although I’m looking at my fingers in all the photos, I did look up several times during the gig. Honest. And I resisted the urge to gurn every time I made a mistake, usually successfully. (Wow, double adverb, is that allowed?)

I’m getting back in touch with my rock by (re)learning Joe Satriani’s The Mighty Turtle Head. (I have no idea if Mr Satriani knew what a turtle head was when he named the tune.) The tune is pure rock: cowbell in the intro, quarter note hi-hat sections, crap synth strings in the outro. Fantastic. I first learnt it back in ’96 when I had no chance of being able to play the solo, so I’m giving it another whirl…