guitarist
/
guitarist

Five Ways to Escape – Célia Berton

Five Ways to Escape is the beautiful debut EP from Toulouse-based songwriter and vocalist Célia Berton, which we co-wrote through most of 2022. Célia is extremely talented, it was from…

The Death of Eddie Van Halen

Van Halen… I’ve not posted for a while but upon hearing of the death of Eddie Van Halen late last night, I felt that I should at least put out…

The Beatles ‘Rubber Soul’ – Album Review

After a couple of weeks away from social media and website duties (a flight back from Australia, a number of lyric projects, a general election and Christmas can quickly eat…

Miles Davis ‘Kind of Blue’ – Album Review

After last week’s catch up blog, today I return to my series of classic album reviews with the only instrumental disc in the collection; Miles Davis’ seminal jazz record, ‘Kind…

Update from Oz

Recent blog posts have been album reviews of some of my favourite records but for the last 2-3 weeks, I’ve been either traveling in Cambodia or visiting family in Australia…

The Jam Station

In recent weeks I’ve had a huge amount of work as a lyricist – writing songs for/with clients in Paris and Toulouse in France, as well as Switzerland, Senegal and…

Brian May Style Analysis

Before I get onto Brian May… This last week has been incredibly busy for me, which is good news! I was working in Toulouse with french pop/soul singer Kessy, with…

Jimi Hendrix Playing Analysis

As promised and following on from last week’s analysis of Jimmy Page, here is an article discussing the guitar playing Jimi Hendrix taken from my 2014 Licentiate thesis with the…

Jimmy Page Playing Style Analysis

Jimmy Page… While recently searching some old work on a hard-drive I found an article that I wrote for my Licentiate Diploma with the London College of Music in 2014.…

Adding Guitar to the 27 Film Soundtrack

27…. As I’ve said before the majority of my work these days is as a lyricist and composer though I entered this business many years ago as a session guitarist…