Richard

Reg was excellent. Always is in my experience, can't recall a bad evening with him either solo or in the various bands he's been with. I guess you don't know him from your question but he is a singer/songwriter with a mild country'ish slant but coming from an English perspective (Bloody hell I'm glad I don't write reviews regularly!!!!). Although he did some non self penned stuff including Boots of Spanish Leather as a fill in when his accompanist (the wonderful Martin Belmont on guitar) broke a string and had to pop into the green room (posh name for the spare room out the back next to the gents) to change it, and a fine version of the traditional "wind and Rain" (the two sisters ballad).

The question "what sort of guitar does he play", do you mean style or make? style is fairly normal finger picking and strum (normal but well played) as for make I had assumed both played Martins but I heard Martin discussing his with one of our guitar players (I'm only an occasional player when I get my Springsteen mood on) and it was a Japanese imitation but I didn't catch the make, Martin said it was te best semi electric acoustic round.

Back to Reg he played many years ago in The Panic Brothers and later with the Flamingoes who included a couple of members of Barely Works (sorely missed) and also one of the incarnations of the Hank Wangford Band (which he still might but I haven't seen them for years) and most recently I've seen him with Steafan Hanigan but that was an informal do (boozy book launch) so may not be regular. Hope some of the above puts him in context for you.

The rest of your question, I was being a little tongue in cheek saying I don't think he was there as I'm 99.999% sure he wasn't (I only recall two non members turning up with some of our members, I think I recognised everyone else) and I didn't spot his name in the signing in book (another aggravating thing we have to keep to cover the PEL business). As stated earlier i felt that he could have turned up since he posted that he intened to surprise someone (could even have been me, maybe I know him).

Cheers