LATEST NEWS ( November 10, 2009)

Tip of the Day

Before I go off to work in the morning I have a cup of coffee and play guitar for 15 minutes. It is a surprisingly creative time – 7.30 am. Not many guitarists know that I’m sure. When I was professional,  2.00 pm was my usual getting up time. I only ever saw 7.30 coming back from a distance gig. But this is my big tip – try getting up real early in the morning and playing guitar, you will find new ideas come easily.

Recent Gigs

Just lately, I have been doing some gigs with my friend of 41 years Roger Hubbard. An exceptional guitar and vocal talent, our getting together was accidental. I approached my agent with an idea to have a Blue Goose Reunion tour with myself, Roger and Woody Mann. Well the tour didn’t happen – art centre funding cuts saw to that but Roger and I did get booked for the Rootsway Festival in Italy. There  are some real fans over there – a bit like Britain in the late 60’s.

We were treated exceptionally well and stayed in a really beautiful hotel in Salsomaggiore. If you check out Gallery 6, you will see what I mean.

The promoter booked us as a duo so we decided to split the set into three sections with two solo and one together and it worked very well. So we are hoping to get more work together and some promoters are interested so watch this space.

Other news is that the Hine Brothers are booked for the North London Blues festival with the main attraction yet to be confirmed.  (I have a huge library collection of photo’s from this year’s event and will try and get them loaded up as soon as possible. .Although we have never rehearsed it is getting better and better just by playing regularly at the Waiting Rooms. That’s how the Brett’s got to be good by playing at studio 51 every week for 2 years. Same for any band. Although my brother’s style is now very different to mine, our timing is the same so it slots together perfectly.