So - quite the anomaly of an event for me.

The day didn’t start off well - as at Waterloo - I was unable to see any trains for Kempton Park on the board. A National Rail staff member then informed me there were no direct trains to Kempton Park on the day - owing to works and diversions.

I was advised to catch a train to New Malden and then swap onto the Kempton Park train. Only upon arrival in New Malden the duty staffer there told me there were no trains to Kempton Park - but there might be a ...

I’m so glad to have made it to the sophomore Glasgow Stompbox Social. I was originally set to attend last year - while something came up last minute. I promised Angus I would attend this time around for sure - and I’m a man of my word! 

I have to say that I didn’t particularly enjoy the train journey - both legs of the journey were delayed over and above already long running-times. We kind of arrived at Glasgow Central on time - but there was no platform available to us - which meant that ...

Brighton is normally one of the easiest shows to attend - usually just an hour Journey from London Victoria to Brighton Station. But on this day - when I got to Victoria - it had been announced that all trains to Brighton had been cancelled owing to a landslide near Purley.

I was initially advised to head for Hove instead (Littlehampton service) as the nearest destination to Brighton. I had arrived around 06:30 at Victoria with a view to catching the 06:59 train - which should have got me into ...

So - we’ve had 3 incredible guitar gear events this month - covering Birmingham, then Woking, and now London - in probably my favourite venue on the circuit. Studio 9294 is such a unique place - having the outside canal-side terrace, and superb next-door restaurant and bar - in the guise of Number # 90 - which always serve up a very decent lunch! With the sun out - like we experienced at the weekend - this venues is wholly glorious - there’s a cool nearby Sainsbury’s, and indeedned ’Bad Coffee’...

Maybury Guitars - Jason

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So here are the highlights from the very first Woking Boutique Guitar Show - which  took place this past Saturday at the Fiery Bird venue - just 5 minutes walk from the train station / town centre.

The show was organised by my good friend Jason Snelling of Maybury Guitars, alongside John Smith of JAS Guitars. The venue was perfectly centrally located, and was spacious - with a lot of natural light - which did make some of the photography somewhat...

NOTE : FREE TO ATTEND HEADPHONES EVENT!

Great news! - the London Synth & Pedal Expo is back for another year on the 22nd & 23rd of March -hopefully just as good as last year’s fantastic sophomore event. And in a superb venue and location - just one stop up from Stratford!

Paolo generally encourage people to bring their own guitar with them - while I’ve been bopped so many times by those guitars - that I rather wish attendees left their axes at home. Space can get somewhat tight on ...

NOTE : Competition is now over - while the -20% promotion has been extended until January 15th!

The eagle-eyed amongst you will have noticed that we’ve had DryBell Banners on this site since December 1st - to mark the Brand New DryBell.com website. The celebration is in two parts - firstly, all 5 key Pedal Variants are [20% OFF] throughout December - with FREE Shipping.

[20% OFF] is a fantastic deal for these studio-grade pedals, and a rare opportunity to acquire one at these at incredibly ...

As is usual for these events - I prepared a list of my likely targets to hit up during the day - which this time around happened to be my various already established friends and allies from the guitar show circuit. I did not spot any suitable new prospects on the show roster - nor when I actually did the rounds!

My list looked as follows :

• Audiostorm - Lydia-Sean
• Buzzing Bugs - Dan
• Flattley Guitar Pedals - Paul & Jan
• Funny Little Boxes - Andy
• Goliath FX - Matt
• Heavy Repping - John

So we were back in Bristol once more for the superb Wassup Nerds!? 2 Show - much expanded and in new BIMM Institute Venue in the Stokes Croft area of that city. Said area, is a little way out of the centre of the city, and consists mostly of take-away restaurants seemingly, a few pubs, and is heavily saturated with Vegan and Vegetarian options - so will likely suit the more fussy eaters!

Unusually for me, I hadn’t done any research on that area in advance - where for my lunch break - I ...