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Had a great gig at Ilkeston's The Davey Lamp. Plenty of social media and press coverage leading up to this one lead to a full venue with standing room only! As ever, the well known material went down a treat but the lesser known tracks were greeted enthusiastically too with plenty of folks having a good boogie/air guitar - even had a couple of 'crutch guitar' moments too! All in all a great night!

Black Stone Cherry with support from the fantastic Shinedown and Halestorm

Alice Cooper and Motley Crue at Manchester last night - both bands are pure theatre and the quality of AC's current touring line up was exceptional.

Our planned world domination of all things Rock & Irish remains firmly rooted in the Midlands again this week - damn!. If you're local then why not treat yourself to beer and support your live music venues whilst enjoying a selection of Phil and company's finest tunes at The Davy Lamp. The Triangle, Ilkeston DE7 4AP - gig starts around 9:15(is!)

I'm a sweaty oaf and tend to drop them. I'm also a clumsy oaf so have half a dozen on a pick holder on my mic boom...theory is I can grab at least one!

We're plying our trade in Chesterfield once more - come along and hear your favorite Thin Lizzy tunes at The County Music Bar, Saltergate, Chesterfield S40 1JS from around 9:00pm

I've sung lead in pretty much every band I've been in, frequently as a guitarist rather than a bass player, However, as I'm currently playing the part of Phil Lynott it's a given I have to play and sing!

I'm really surprised by some of the comments as I don't think I've used a cable since the mid-90's!

A clean Limelight - where does that put me?

A new venue for us - The Crown Inn, Derbyshire. We turned up to a see small stage area but even after sound checking the room was still worrying emptry at 8:30. We need not have worried - come 9:00 it was pretty full and ready to be entertained with a steady flow of new arrivals suring the first set. It turns out that we got the timings wrong - started the first set earlier than usual for the venue (we should have checked!) so finished earlier than anticipated. For fear of losing the crowd we kicked off the 2nd set at 10:25 not the venue's usual (10:45) and recycled some of the first set (a lot of folks turned up towards the end of the set expecting us to be just about starting!) Upshot was a great gig (if a long night), loads of positive comments (even got favourably compared to Limehouse Lizzy - result!) and three return bookings for 2016 - job done!

We're back at it this weekend belting out the Lizzy classics @ The Crown Inn, Heanor, Derbyshire DE75 7AH from 9:00pm or so

Dep'd for a mate's band at a wedding - at least I got the setlist a couple of weeks beforehand but there were still a few changes of keys to sort out. We had a couple of runs through the set in the afternoon and went for it! Had an absolute blast - not what Id usually play and nice to be set free from the vocal duties for a gig too

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After a few weeks off Think Lizzy return to live action on Saturday 13th June 2015 – The Grouse, Chesterfield, S40 2AR

Oooooh - pretty!

My CBS era Limelight Precision replica and early 80's Tokai Hardpuncher

2 x YOB ('66) Precisions, one of which is (just about!) affordable...bugger!

As it says on the tin - Think Lizzy are heading into deepest Burton for a night of twin-guitar Irish rock at The Whetmore Whistle on Sat 9th May. From 9:00pmsh!

Had a most surreal rehearsal - well...you need a crowd for it to be a gig, right? You have to wonder at the intelligence of a venue that has a "band fest" planned as an outdoor event with no indoor contingency for the likelihood of the British weather! Whilst the bands were kept nice and dry under a marquee, the punters had to endure rain and wind in coats or under brollies ergo most of them stayed indoors! Still...ever the consummate pros we played for the odd punter that wandered out now and again...and incurred the wrath of the landlord by playing on his bouncy castle! It was different and will no doubt go down as one of the more strange gigs I've ever played with one Thin Lizzy fan choosing our set for us as he felt like!

Play in a Thin Lizzy 'tribute' Think Lizzy - definitely not a looky-likey but we do try and soundy-likey!

Think Lizzy will be headlining The New Plough's Band Fest starting at 8:00pm. Bands on from 2:00pm - £3.50 on the door. More details here - http://thinklizzy.co.uk/live-this-weekend/

I've never had to play 'ill' (yet) but have had to play several gigs with a herniated disc - the most recent being my last gig when after loading the car in the afternoon I thought I'd clean my Triumph motorbike...all's good then instead of riding it into the garage I thought I'd push it...lent over, proceeded to move it and felt the back go straight away! ! I usually get through on a diet of Tramadol and ibuprofen. The other guys in the band are really good about it and make sure I don't have to unload/carry anything!

I may bear the above in mind - being of a somewhat acidic nature I've already successfully 'eaten' one guitar bridge (Wilkinson VS100) and the replacement is so corroded it will never budge again! I'm definitely a 'fresh t-shirt at the interval' kinda guy!!!!

Absolutely lovely