Well yes, the thread is about gigs but there's been a lot of talk about tuning too - and until Mr Spam decided to add a little spice to the discussion the thead was in deep sleep.

So apologies for drift but if people think tuning is something that will lead to people walking out of a show then perhaps it really is relevant.

A lot of writers ( won't name names if that's uncool, but I do reccommend you google the above, they are all seriously good players) use different tunings to create different tonal landscapes - as indeed MC does. I have, in the past, carried three guitars around, to minimise re-tuning, but as I play other instruments too I now prefer to use one, and try to tune quickly and efficiently, while chatting and telling engaging stories to divert the audience. That's what most of us do.

This is me incidentally Tom Bliss

Oh and as you can see above I have offered advice of gig-getting too (in fact I make a habit of helping new starters in any way I can).

Off to sing for my supper now