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I never thought of myself as a Liam Gallagher fan, but I like his latest album “As You Were”.

Since I play guitar and even sing a little, I’ve been learning to play some songs from the album. Several things came out of this. First, Liam sings really high! He was asked about this in an interview - specifically whether men would be able to sing along - and he just said something straightforward like, well they should just stop complaining and crank it out anyway. I’m paraphrasing from memory - he probably swore a few times.

Second - in general, it’s really hard to play and sing at the same time. The rhythm for the guitar part will often be different than the vocals. So you have to kind of split yourself into two parts, each doing its own thing.

I can just about manage “Chinatown” - here’s the first verse and chorus!

For some reason, I decided to learn to play the oboe. It wasn’t the best idea, and I gave a speech about it here …

Learning to play Le Cygne (The Swan) from Carnival of Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns. Classical guitar arrangement by Emre Sabuncuoglu.

Over Christmas 2016 I was feeling nostalgic, so I re-made the theme music from the 1980s seasonal children’s TV programme “Box of Delights”.

The video footage is from the original.

Some music I made, with footage on a ride out to the woods.

The music is firstly my dodgy attempt to play the Winery Dogs' “I’m No Angel”. The ambient stuff in the second half is put together from some time-stretched guitar and synth recordings with effects and EQ added. There’s probably only a few bars of music stretched out over a few minutes, so it’s fairly strange and unplanned.

Riding up Box Hill on my road bike.