Today was an unusual sing around session for me, in that I only led one song (You Wreck Me by Tom Petty). That was because a couple of my flautist friends came along and we took the rest of our turns to give us a modicum of rehearsal for the gig we did tonight at The Needle and Pin in Loughborough. Since it was a (slightly) Burns Night flavoured event, someone suggested we could use the moniker “The Burns Unit”.

I’m not sure anyone actually asked what name we were playing under but the gig went well and we reeled (and jigged) through a selection of Scottish folk tunes, with two flutes and me backing them up on acoustic guitar. Lots of fun and the skinny guitar strings will have helped toughen up my finger calluses for sure! Meanwhile, my personal Burns celebration and dose of haggis (Great Chieftain o’ the Puddin-race!) will be tomorrow, on 25 January.