Have you been keeping up with my reviews in The Guitar Magazine? If not then all is not lost, you can read them online too! I've looked at some really exotic kit recently, some of it is useful for…

Well, that's a very good question! As the buying public's appetite for exotic woods (especially post-CITES Dalbergia alternatives) has increased, there has been something of a rush to find the next, greatest, coolest, rarest, oldest, etc woods possible. One choice…

I'll just leave this here... I hope you enjoy it!

Do please share, comment etc. Your support means a lot to me. If you'd like a closer look at the mic set-up, well it's two pairs of Gefell M300's and…

So here's the thing, I know nothing about tangos, literally nada. My only real tango experience was that scene in Scent of a Woman where Al Pacino dances with Gabrielle Anwar. Maybe that hit me at a formative age, who…

As far as I'm concerned there are few things in life as pleasurable as playing a new guitar for the luthier who made it. In this case the instrument in question was a beautiful small body TS model in Bog…

If you haven't heard the name Emma Tricca then where have you been? Obviously not at one of Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets European concerts where Emma supported the band in historic venues like London's Roundhouse, Berlin's Tempodrom and the…

Massive congratulations to filmmaker Jessica Savidge who won not one, but two Telly Awards  for this short film showcasing the work of the Kostal Guitars! It was a great honour to hear that she had chosen my piece Celandine…

This week was London Craft Week, a celebration of the UK's exceptional hand-made heritage brands. One of the world's finest knitwear companies John Smedley is celebrating their 235th anniversary this year and as part of the celebrations they invited…

It will come as no great surprise to many reading this that the prospect of an afternoon spent with some of the finest microphones in the world triggers a Pavlovian response in me. As such I always look forward to…

I get a lot of messages from lovers of fine guitar tone asking me to recommend guitar music and players, so much so that I have decided to branch out into record reviews! 

Some of my favourite writing (I'm a…

It's a real honour to have been asked to feature in the first #asktheartist section for Tony Polecastro's wonderful Acoustic Life YouTube channel. In this episode of Acoustic Tuesday you can learn about my favourite guitar (no prizes for guessing…

It's always a pleasure to spend time with luthier Tom Sands and in a recent trip up to Durham I finally had the opportunity to visit his workshop in Yorkshire. While there we recorded an episode of The Interval (The…