Leigh's Mad World Of Guitars

As the Stranglers / Ruts DC tour grows ever nearer I seem to be spending rather a lot of my time changing strings, checking leads, working...

On 5th September 1966 filming began on ' The Prisoner ' in the village of Portmeirion in North Wales . Fifty years on it still divi...

Well, who would have thought it - Boris Johnson knifes the entire country in the back then one of his so-called 'friends' does the...

Paul Fox would have been 65 years old today. I miss him as both a fabulous musician and as a lovely bloke - here he is in 1979 with The Ru...

Well I don't want to tempt fate - after all, who does? - but I'm pleased to report that the famous finger seems to be getting bette...

And this week has indeed proved to be better than last week. Good! I've spent much of it working in Balcony Shirts due to the shop be...

So - the people of Great Britain are to vote on whether or not they think that the country should stay in the European Union. Exciting eh? ...

Lemmy . The very word itself is synonymous with rock 'n' roll excess. I first saw Motorhead in 1978 around the time of their first ...

Three shows in three days from Big Al Reed and The Blistering Buicks last week, starting with Thursday night at The Sunningdale Lounge in...

Colin Dredd, bass player with The Newtown Neurotics , died last week. I saw The Neurotics (as they were also known) play many times and our ...

Well it's been a while since we've had a caption competition in these hallowed pages but I think it's time for one now, as a n...

And so this is Christmas . Well, it was a few days ago - I spent much of it asleep thanks to re-occurring I-thought-I'd-shaken-it-off-by...

Following on from last weekend's Islington extravaganza Ruts D.C. have 12 gigs this month, starting in Leeds this Thursday - as the...

Well it's been a very - make that very - busy few days in Leigh's Mad World Of guitars, to such an extent that between gigging and ...

First things first - the always-excellent Aural Sculptors blog has posted a review of the forthcoming Ruts D.C. album 'Live On Stage...