GUITARS, SONGS AND TABOO
TUNES

The guitar has played an important part in my life since I was about 13. In 2008, something unexpected happened - I formed a duo with Derek Hewitson, a guitarist whom I had met through an internet site musicians-in-your-city.co.uk.

Together, Derek and I have discovered some amazing and surprising songs and have developed our own brand of genre-busting music from swing, bluegrass, jazz and folk dating from the 19th century to the present day.

Looking for a name for our duo, we stole the title of Joseph Heller's greatest novel and called ourselves Something Happened.

In 2010, we developed a show called TABOO-BE-DO! Hits and Misses from the Politically Incorrect Songbook, celebrating – with the help of the brilliant Victoria Hart - some the best (and worst) of scandalous, trouble-making music from the past 100 years.

You can hear some of Something Happened's music and find out about our forthcoming gigs at www.myspace.com/somethinghappened2.

Read, or listen to Me and My Guitar: A Love Story, an article which I was commissioned to write for BBC Radio 3's 'The Essay' series and which was also published in the Independent.