James Bisset: 50th Anniversary Edition

Now is that a vote of confidence or wot!
OK, I’ll take a couple of steps back and explain my excitement. I’ve been uploading snippets of my previous music to the web site as background to the project, but I can’t find my Caedmon CD - I’ve probably lent it to someone (note to self: I [...]

Hey, guess what happens when you announce that your business will be closed for two weeks?
That’s right, all sorts of urgent requests come in for work which MUST be completed ASAP. So I’ve been just a little bit busy.
Anyway, it’s Friday night, the kids are in bed and Ruth’s gone out, and I’ve just had [...]

I wrote recently about all the effort that goes in to trying to get your band noticed by the right people in Dig the archives (and weep).
Here’s a good example. Some bands take their names from a line in a book, but in Reel Funk Inc’s case we’d thought of the name first. This didn’t [...]

I’ve started adding pictures to the web site from the extensive Bisset archive. Not that it’s that extensive really - trying to hold the guitar, the pose, the mirror and the camera proved quite difficult.
So I had to resort to cajoling passers by to take the camera and the pictures.
This proved to be quite [...]

I started this project to celebrate my 50th year and do something definitive with all those years of experience. Then it became obvious that I needed to explain what exactly that experience was. And so I wrote a couple of pages which became the bio.
Of course, once I’d written the bio I realised that it [...]