I had two plans for today – buy some strap locks ready for Monday’s gig and then play guitar. So this morning I rang three different music stores in our area. At the first one, Music Box in Accrington, I had to speak to someone who clearly didn’t know anything about music and must have been a ‘Saturday staff’ guy and I then had the exact same thing with Reidy’s in Blackburn. Luckily I remembered the beasty store Rimmers in Blackburn who were actually helpful and they told me a black metal Dunlop Straplock would cost £1.99. So, thinking this was an awesome deal, I headed down and also planned on buying more for Kurt and Curtis.

So here is the interesting part – when I got there it transpired that they were £23.99 each and the guy read out the wrong price tag, so I managed to get myself a straplock, as I wasn’t prepared to spend another £50 for the rest of my band xD

I returned home and had a look at the instructions which made no sense because they gave every part two different names and told me to assemble things that are already assembled… Knowing nothing about this I decided to ring my Uncle who is a beasty guitarist. Will be going down to his tomorrow so that he can install them for me.

Decided to have a jam on my guitar and learnt three songs, Seven by VAGIANT, Vasoline by Stone Temple Pilots and Nightmare by Crooked X. Love all of these songs and they are so fun to play that I will be suggesting them as band songs.

(To the people who wanted to see a picture of the Slipknot badge, the lighting at this time of day is bad and I can’t get a good photo ).