Ghost of Bongo @Berekeley2, Glasgow
Dave Mackay Band

Too much fun can be had with 3 naughty boys and some wood ;-p
@CallanishMusic play Surgeons’ Hall Edinburgh
Engineering @ The Moorings Bar (Aberdeen)

A dream comes true, engineering at my favourite venue of my whole music career.
An actual win 🙂
Movin’ Melvin Brown @edfringe

Movin’ Melvin Brown (@movinmelvin) is in Edinburgh for the Festival.
Playing bass on the following dates for his 2 shows
The Ray Charles Experience – August 9th, 11th, 13th, 15th
The Tap Dancing Preacher  – August 12th, 14th, 16th, 28th
Goings-on as Bassist for Fisso Musica
A productive weekend for the Fisso Musica outfit, with acoustic recordings of Emily Atkinson, our new singing talent, on Saturday using the ever-skilful services of Guitarist and engineer Gavin Wiltshire. Â Followed by a full-band recording the very next day! Â Well done friends, great work and the results so far make for exciting listening.
Gavin and I had discussed previously and at length that we should aim to achieve both a much fuller sound and polished performance than the hundreds of performances we have seen and indeed been part of over the last few years.
So my thanks to Scott Galbraith, Emily Atkinson and Brian Macleod for your recent efforts; for the first time in a while I can feel a real sense of achievement in this corner of my musical activities, and I’m very happy to have had a good feeling grow into a good vibe, cheers folks.
Gav, well done bud, as ever.
Also playing trumpet for Rear View Music Scotland now

Please give a like to these fine folks if you can, a hard working bunch I have recently joined as a trumpet player.
http://www.edinburghfunctionband.co.uk/
Setups are not the most fun – but they are quite fun :)
EMG For the win :)

Be Serious About Your Sounds :)
Peavey Grind 6 Customising and EMG Upgrade ptII
Work is pretty much complete on my  Peavey Grind 6.
2 EMG Pickups (a 45CSÂ and a 45DC) fitted with surprisingly little effort, and for the nerds I went with an 18v supply, and modified wiring to maintain the original tone/volume control pair.
Peavey Grind 6 Customising & EMG Upgrade

OK so these images document the bulk of the pickup upgrade work done to my Peavey Grind 6.
I purchased the Bass from Red Dog Music store in Edinburgh’s Grassmarket, it’s my second one, on purpose, because I love them; my friend and fellow Bassist Duncan Roscoe now owns my original one.
I also purchased some EMG pickups a 45CSÂ and a 45DC, as did he, and then we set about our instruments.
@ Callanish in Ayr – Ceilidh!
IN MIRRORS LIVE @THE CAVES: LIVE ALBUM RECORDING with TITUS PULLO

These guys are some of my favourites to come out of Edinburgh recently.
I’m very excited to see this gig 🙂
Plus I’m being a Roadie!!!
Alley Piano

The Garden this morning
Lilly by Luke & James
A work in progress by my 8yr old guitar pupils, they like to write tunes then add their guitar / keyboard parts over them – amazing guys!!Â
Some Bass Work

Another little thing

New tune in progress
Another night with @CallanishMusic

Nice pad 🙂
Gear List, A Progressive Development :)

Pics from past studio sessions
