Month: March 2022

There was only ever going to be one thing to write about for this week’s blog… On 19th July 1996 Paula and I went to the short-lived and much missed Phoenix Festival, a four day event held at Long Marston Airfield, just outside Stratford upon Avon. Originally set up as an alternative to Glastonbury and…

Yes it’s part two of my mission to cause untold stress to our teachers by asking them for a list of their Top 5 favourite bands / artists! The following lists include my own – a small miracle if you ask me… I just had to go for it and not think about all the…

How do you stress out a musician? Or anyone who loves music come to that! Ask them to come up with their Top 5 favourite bands or artists of all time! 🙂 That’s what I did to all our teachers at TMB this week and pretty much to a man they said it was almost…

I randomly came across the interesting snippet of information that on this day in 1970 the song Bridge Over Troubled Water, by Simon and Garfunkel of course, began a six week run at the top of the singles chart in America. It later went to number 1 in the UK and many other countries becoming…

This week we’re wearing our sturdiest walking boots and carrying a big stick to go hacking our way through the thorny subject of Autotuning… I’m sure that most of you will already know what we mean by Autotuning but just in case you don’t, it’s basically a piece of software that automatically corrects pitch and…