I have been singing to a bass and drums in my show, I used to play guitar but for some variety I decided to play the bass instead. For one thing its different to what other performers are doing and for another its a challenge to sing and play bass. Now I appreciate much more the talents of singing bass players Paul McCartney , Brian Wilson, Sting, Lemmy, David Paton (formerley bass player with Pilot, The Alan Parsons Project and now Elton John) and Phil Lynott.

I wanted to chose songs that had a distinctive bass line – something that drove the song along. So far I have played the Cream staple Sunshine of Your Love, the Beatles Ballad of John and Yoko and Brian Wilson’s California Girls. You can probably think of many more so why not let me know the tunes that you would play?

I’ve recently started working on Heartbreaker by Led Zeppelin – this song is very dependent on the bass line and this and other songs by Zep the bass and guitar often riff along to create a very powerful structure with the drums.

Once again I played my bass centric show with guest drummer Dan Todd coping very well with my ‘ look back at the sixties’ set. We have never rehearsed this set so it was even better that he managed to hold it together. The set is California Girls, Ballad of John and Yoko, Sunshine of Your Love, Jail Bait , Rock and Roll Medley featuring : Going Home, Mean Woman Blues, Blue Suede Shoes and Taxi.

Just when I thought I was doing something completely different to everyone else the next act up borrowed my bass to do a song with another drummer. I don’t know if he had done it before or if the idea came from watching me – really though it doesn’t matter. The main thing is to get out there and play and even if you don’t play guitar there is an audience for singing bass players out there – maybe even a career.