Gig: 3/21/1990, The Alarm, Matisse Club, Bologna

Day Nineteen: Thursday 16 June 2005 The rehearsal room is crackling with energy, we are running through the new song (Working title – It’s Alright, It’s O.K.), it’s working out really well. No dramas, beginning to develop some vocal lines as I want to write the lyrics for this album as the music develops. James finds something in the bridge that I did not realize was there, a have a [read more]

Day Sixteen: Monday 13 June 2005 Today I decide to tackle the acoustics on ‘Menai Bridge’. I had been doing some thinking over the weekend and deiced to return to my Takamine 12 String. I always seem to have trouble playing six string acoustics. I suppose it goes back to my first years learning the guitar which were spent with a 12 string that only had the six main strings [read more]

English Beat support tour begins. UK tour.