About forty people have a go each year. They travel a fair distance to do it (from Scotland and the far sounth of England … one year a chap came over from Australia!).

We make a weekend of it with a curry on the Friday, then an acoustic set on the Saturday afternoon, followed by the full-scale electric job in the evening.

Loads of errors, mistakes and go-arounds happen, but it doesn’t matter. We all know that it’s a safe environment to screw it up!

More vids up not in the channel. http://www.youtube.com/user/ukmusicguitar#p/c/DFEC9C9982E8B344

N.

That looks great! How many people do it?
Having the deadline of doing the gig must be a good focus.

You’ve given me some ideas too. I hadn’t thought about making it into a proper performance, was just thinking record something or video it.

Will keep a lookout on your site/vids.

Thanks for posting! M

Hi from Derbyshire UK. This concept you speak of works very well. The contributors to the Usenet newsgroup nntp://uk.music.guitar have an annual event where we turn up to play with each other. In the preceding months, we build our song list here: http://www.ukmgnational.org.uk, and then practice like billy-o against the original recording. We get up on the night and deliver the goods unrehearsed.

The results can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/user/ukmusicguitar.

We have just run our 2009 event and videos will be appearing shortly!

Best,

Nige.