Yesterday saw me trundling off to Long Wittenham (not exactly a highway route!) to Glenda Huish’s Wittstock charity fundraiser festival. Subbing for my near-doppelganger Michael East (he replaced me when I left Mark Atherton’s band a couple of years back) I was supplying lead lines on violin to acoustic four-piece Firegazer. Half-hour set on three evening practices, went pretty slick! (and I couldn’t see the rhythm guitarist’s left hand from where I was standing … )