by Simon Cassidy | Apr 17, 2015 | Cassidy Guitars, Customer Reviews, Electric Guitars, Featured New Owner, Featured Student, Product Review
This review is a little unusual as the guitar in question was a UK Custom Built project for a very lucky young man called Michael Eastham who worked alongside me in my workshop during his Half-Term School holidays throughout the build. This was a great experience for...
by Simon Cassidy | Feb 15, 2014 | Cassidy Guitars, Customer Reviews, Electric Guitars, Featured New Owner, Featured Student, New Products, Product Review, Uncategorized
Customer review from Nick Poole…short and pretty sweet… You get a lot of guitar for your money (PRS Style for around £595 inc. Hard Case) Early days, but I reckon I’ve got a well made, comfortable and very playable guitar. The only guitar I will ever...
by Simon Cassidy | Oct 28, 2012 | Featured Student, Guitar Lessons
If you’re beginning to wish there was more to life than X Factor then try out the new entries to our Top Student Videos Features. Again it’s the brave young people leading the way with Jamie Davies-Sen at 11 years of age storming into the charts at No 1...
by Simon Cassidy | Aug 24, 2012 | Electric Guitars, Featured Student, Guitar Lessons
I have known Peter and Josh for sometime now. Josh started lessons first around 3 years ago and has progressed well and is now singing and playing in his band Mean Plastic Sharks. Josh’s Dad Peter followed on starting lessons a couple of years ago – and...
by Simon Cassidy | Jul 31, 2012 | Featured Student
Congratulations to the following students for achieveng a great set of results in the Summer 2012 Registry of Guitar Tutors / London College of Music Exams issued by the University of West London. As always, it has been my pleasure and privelege to have helped you...
by Simon Cassidy | Jun 17, 2012 | Featured Student
It was great sadness that I heard of the death of one of my students this morning. Dave Holmes had played the guitar for many years and had been meaning to take some “proper” (as he put it) lessons for a while. He finally got round to it earlier this year...
by Simon Cassidy | May 27, 2012 | Featured New Owner, Featured Student, Product Review
I had the pleasure of seeing Guthrie Govan play with Bryan Beller (Bass) and Marco Minnemann (Drums) ~ “The Aristocrats” ~ with Nick and our better halves, Yoga and Anna, at the Cluny in Newcastle in March this Year. Nick had had his eye on one of the...
by Simon Cassidy | May 20, 2012 | Featured Student
Another special moment for me yesterday as one of my younger students Harry Downworth (aged 9) came in for his lesson with his Dad Michael and said “I’ve got a surprise for you…..” For a fleeting moment my mind scanned all of the potential...
by Simon Cassidy | May 19, 2012 | Featured Student, Uncategorized
I have had the pleasure of knowing the musical Green family for a few years now. First Bela started lessons as an accomplished Grade 8 Classical Guitarist who wanted a conversion course to Country / Blues / Rock Music – that worked and she now plays and sings...
by Simon Cassidy | May 19, 2012 | EKO Guitars, Electro-Acoustic Guitars, Featured Student, Uncategorized
Robyn was lucky enough to receive a surprise guitar package on Christmas morning and duly attended her first guitar lesson in the Christmas holidays. Robyn hadn’t touched a guitar before then and she hadn’t sang in public either. Since then she has worked...
by Simon Cassidy | Mar 31, 2012 | EKO Guitars, Electric Guitars, Featured Student
Young Jamie says he mentioned Kashmir at his lesson last week but I can’t remember, and we certainly didn’t do any work on it then. That didn’t stop 10 year old Jamie looking it up on youtube during the week, figuring out (almost) how to tune to...
by Simon Cassidy | Mar 8, 2012 | Electric Guitars, Featured Student, Product Review
Ok, so we know that Jimi Hendrix had limited (if no) choice about using left handed guitars so he restrung a standard right handed strat so he could play left handed – with his left hand strumming and his right hand on the fret board. We also know that in his...
by Simon Cassidy | Feb 19, 2012 | Acoustic Guitars, Featured New Owner, Featured Student, Guitar Lessons, Music Theory
Earning a living as a guitar teacher is really one of the most satisfying things I have ever done. Buying, selling, fixing and talking about guitars, guitarists and guitar music to enthusiastic students is a pretty good place to be for me. But the variety of people I...
by Simon Cassidy | Jan 21, 2012 | Electric Guitars, Featured New Owner, Featured Student, Guitar Amplifiers
Well music is definitely a family thing. A big factor in whether or not my students start and then continue with lessons is whether or not they have the support of their family. Charlotte Draper is a good example of a young lady with a talent for singing, acting and...
by Simon Cassidy | Jan 19, 2012 | Electric Guitars, Featured Student, Product Review
Well…. I’ve been waiting eagerly to see Peter’s new acquisition. We’ve discussed it for weeks at his lessons and it has finally arrived – a Fender Custom Deluxe Stratocaster…… Well as a long time owner of a USA Deluxe...
by Simon Cassidy | Jan 14, 2012 | Featured Student
Congratulations to Ben and his band White Rose for making it through to the Battle of the Bands final after winning last nights heat at Scene in Darlington! Not surprised at all – this band are great and you can see them in the final at Scene on Friday 27th...
by Simon Cassidy | Jan 14, 2012 | Electric Guitars, Featured New Owner, Featured Student
Well this Exotic Custom Telecaster has certainly caused a stir, and I am pleased to say that the the lucky new owner is Nathan McLaughlin. Over the last few months during his lessons I have noted one or two features Nathan was looking for in his “dream”...
by Simon Cassidy | Jan 11, 2012 | Featured Student
Jack Walmsley at the age of 12 is quite a serious young chap. From a Farming Family, Jack is becoming skilled in all aspects of country life from lambing, to shooting and fixing tractors!!! In between his country pursuits Jack is coming on nicely as a talented young...
by Simon Cassidy | Jan 7, 2012 | Featured Student
At the age of 9 Harry is one of my younger students who started his lessons in April last year and soon went on to attain a Distinction at the Acoustic Guitar Initial Grade. Harry has discovered Elvis at a very early age and you can see by the look in his eyes that he...
by Simon Cassidy | Jan 6, 2012 | EKO Guitars, Electric Guitars, Featured Student, Guitar Cases and Gig Bags
Alex worked hard since she started lessons in July 2011 and then quickly went on to achieve a Distinction at Grade 2 Electric guitar in the Winter 2011 exams. Recognising Alex’s achievement, her parents Steve and Jen arranged a Christmas surprise (via Santa of...
by Simon Cassidy | Jan 5, 2012 | Electric Guitars, Featured New Owner, Featured Student, Guitar Amplifiers
Owen turned up for his lesson yesterday looking rather pleased with himself. Not surprising considering the guitar surprises left for him by Santa (and his Mam Tracey) on Christmas morning – a Vintage ’56 Goldtop Les Paul amongst other goodies. Owen is...
by Simon Cassidy | Jan 3, 2012 | Electric Guitars, Featured Student
Ben’s a quiet, polite and unassuming young lad who has been coming for lessons for about 3 years now. Turned up with a bass and two or three lessons later switched to electric guitar. Sometimes late and often forgetful, Ben was lucky enough to persuade his Dad...
by Simon Cassidy | Jan 3, 2012 | Acoustic Guitars, Featured Student, Guitar Lessons
Fame finally caught up with Sid Hill recently in a somewhat unexpected way following his launch onto the www thanks to Youtube. Sid came into his lesson last week and said “You’ll never guess what my window cleaner said to me last week…..He said...
by Simon Cassidy | Jan 1, 2012 | Acoustic Guitars, EKO Guitars, Electric Guitars, Electro-Acoustic Guitars, Featured Student, Gator Cases, Guitar Accessories, Guitar Amplifiers, Guitar Cases and Gig Bags, Guitar Lessons, New Products
2011 has been a great year for me and Sundance Guitars in relation to teaching and guitar sales. Many thanks to my customers from the UK, Europe and around the world for your continued support. We trust your are delighted with the products supplied by us and we hope...
by Simon Cassidy | Dec 28, 2011 | Acoustic Guitars, EKO Guitars, Electro-Acoustic Guitars, Featured New Owner, Featured Student
Robyn made a great start at her first lesson today ~ only a few days after her Christmas morning surprise (an EKO KW Special Fishman EQ) she had managed to learn enough chords to start working on songs by her favourite artist Taylor Swift. Robyn made a confident...
by Simon Cassidy | Dec 24, 2011 | Electric Guitars, Featured Student, Guitar Lessons, Uncategorized
My first contact with Brian was in July 2009. He called me and said he was looking for guitar lessons and had a challenge for me – he was 60 in November 2010 and wanted to play in a band at his birthday party. Brian had played a bit as a teenager, but life then got in...
