Hey, I’ve had a great January and been keeping busy with plenty of music related stuff. Over the last few days I’ve spent some time hanging at NAMM which is one of the biggest music trade shows in the world and lucky for me pretty close, as it’s held in California. I was back there with Gretsch showcasing my signature Falcon which most of you will know plenty about. I can’t believe that it’s been two years since it was officially launched at NAMM in 2012 but as the cliché goes time flies when you’re having fun 😉 Catching up… Read the full article.

“This week (27th Feb.) I was really pleased to be asked along to perform at a benefit for my pal Kerry Simon, the ‘Rock n Roll’ chef. The event ‘Kerry Simon says Fight MSA’ took place at the amazing Frank Geary designed building in the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health’ and was sold out at $1000 a ticket! The gig featured Alice Cooper, Sammy Hagar, Slash, Vince Neil, Matt Sorum,Todd Rungdren and me and raised a stack of cash and awareness in the fight against Multiple System Atrophy (MSA). The after party was at Kerry’s eatery ‘SIMON’… Read the full article.

In February we posted the Billy & Johnny interview in which Billy and Johnny Marr talk about their friendship since school days in Wythenshawe, Manchester in the 1970s. One of the things discussed was the fact that they’d never played live together despite the years of friendship and having done a couple of recordings together. Well that all changed this week! On April 13th whist playing his gig at the Fillmore in San Francisco Johnny invited Billy to join him onstage as his special guest for two songs. The first was a storming version of ‘I fought the law’, the… Read the full article.

Obviously with my commitments to recording and touring with The Cult it’s not often that I get chance to play other gigs. This week was the exception as I was asked to appear as a special secret guest alongside Billy Idol at a Rock Against MS charity event at Whiskey a Go Go in LA. We played a couple of Billy’s songs, White Wedding ad Rebel Yell, and it was great to be part of this and to support such a worthy cause. Playing the show with Billy reminded me of the gig last year when I was lucky enough… Read the full article.