Hearty congratulations to showrunner Jason Hunt for the most successful show day to date - with 3,000 visitors through the doors on the Saturday alone! The queue was already massive and nearly the whole length of the building when I arrived at 09:30.

It’s always good to attend on the first day - especially if you want to be sure of grabbing the best looking of the new releases - and particularly the one-offs on the Hello Sailor Effects stand!

This was another great show for me - with ...

My now good friend Jason has done an exceptional job here with pedalxchange.com - a great deal of care and thought has gone into making this the smartest, safest and most secure trading platform. 

When Jason first contacted me mid-November last year - there were barely a dozen pedals on the site - and I said we needed closer to 100 pedals to be able to properly launch this new platform. So in the intervening couple of months or so - Jason has really worked Reddit communities and other key ...

This is my first post of 2026 - Note that this is a kind of bonus round - as I’m not officially back on duty / back from holiday - until Friday the 9th of January!

So during my Christmas Holidays I took it upon myself to check out the 2 main Pedal Emporiums in Reykjavík - just to take the pulse on the scene and see how alive and kicking it was!

Generally those two spots - Tónastöðin (Skipholt 50D, 105) and Hljóðfærahúsið (Síðumúli 20, 108) are where the vast majority of musicians in the...

So it was about time that Doug Tolley, the Chase Bliss UK Ambassador got the cover slot for his own party! It was a momentous occasion in many ways - including the final concert later that evening for his ’Nine is the Level’ band project. Where he gave away the 4 key albums from that project at the show - and I of course picked up a full set. [Oscillations, Crumbs, Remnants, and Traces].

I also picked up a Witney Pedal Party 4 T-Shirt, and 2 pedals on the day, and the unsung heroes for the day ...

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...