As regular readers will have read previously in this erratic chronicle (you can take alliteration too far. Ed.), I’ve really enjoyed playing solo over the last couple of years.
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202108February
Musical intuition meets the blues
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201918December
The Strange Brew Sessions EP
Impossibly catchy, clever songs in this first solo release from James Bisset, longstanding member of cult folk-rock group Caedmon.
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201909May
And then we moved to Scotland
For years, my day job was building and managing websites. At night, I jammed and recorded, wrote tunes and played guitar but I earned my living designing, coding and developing for the web.
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AcousticAid, Manchester 2017. Image copyright © Barnabas Mersich Media 201713JuneEnergise!
I was in Scotland recently, and bought a copy of the Sunday Herald, for a while there the only newspaper to support Scottish independence.
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201718April
Yamaha RGX A2
Yamaha are consistently underrated by the fan-boys. So here's a review of one of their more inventive recent guitars.
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201703April
Open Mic night 2
A couple of months ago I wrote about the importance of Open Mic nights for the development of your writing and performing skills.
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201707March
Groove ain’t got no algorithm
Being an anal sort of fellow, I group the various music apps on my iPhone into a ‘Play’ folder for all the tools that are supposed to help me create, and a ‘Listen’ folder for all the apps I can us
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201705January
Open Mic Night
For most of 2016, I've been playing once a week, three songs at a time in my very own local bar. It's been a revelation.
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201607September
Goodbye Wordpress Hello Complicated
Let's be honest. If it's not complicated, it's probably not worth it. Time to upgrade the web site.
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201227May
Maple vs rosewood board
Maple vs rosewood fingerboard in another blind A/B test. Can you tell the difference?