Some visitors complaining the site is nothin’ but the blues but we are aware of this innocent bias. But we do need input from bands and others - venues included - who need the space to tell the world what’s on and to pull in the punters!

In an era when middle-aged men unashamedly purchase electric guitars in hopes of recapturing a lost youth much cooler than the one they actually lost, how does the older professional rock star, for whom a vintage Fender Stratocaster is just one more deductible business expense, salve his weary soul?

The world of the blues is a world of cool people who get up and play, come and listen, or open blues venues and buy the CDs - and those who go that extra mile and keep the whole blues vibe alive just being there - or in the case of Taj Segar everywhere!

It was a packed house when Serious Trouble took the floor at Tokyo Joe’s last Friday and Saturday with their fans lapping up the Stevie Ray Vaughan licks from Kenny Ray Gun, the band’s Malaysian leader putting the pick of SRV’s licks back on display with his genuine ‘66 Strat and raw technique.

You can spend a lifetime in one day trawling the net looking for cool guitars, cool news, the baddest music and what’s on where and when.

Win a week under the tutelage of Van Boy Ron McMillan learning when and where to play the harmonica and double your income in the process.

Aspiring local writers would be well advised to head over to our friends at www.fictionasia.comwhere you will find a warm welcome, willing coaches and a bag full of links and contacts that will help that next novel emerge without breaking sweat. And there’s a publisher attached so get that book done!

In a bid to live up to our claim to be a site dedicated to music for the musician and music lovers, we have added two new annexes to the site:

The other week Britney Spears was ordered by a judge to submit to random drug testing and as she did not comply, she lost custody of her children.

The Gossip Gallery will be holding the largest Artworks / painting Exhibition “New World of Arts” in Bangkok, in conjunction with the Gaysorn Shopping Centre, from 26 October and 25 November 2007, Monday to Sunday between 11.00 a.m. and 08.00 p.m. (at Gaysorn Premier Hall, 3rd Floor, Gaysorn Shopping Centre, Ratchaprasong Intersection, Bangkok).

Sir Brinsley McSporran, the noted Scottish genius and prolific inventor has patented a new cigarette designed to save time and productivity and rid the world of what he calls ‘marginal smokers’.

We could waste our breath but why bother when you can cut to the full monty music chase in one click