I am soooooooo excited about seeing my favourite metal band Iron Maiden play at Twickenham Stadium. This will be my fourth Maiden gig. Pretty good going eh! As long as they continue to tour, i'll be there! I don't quite remember how I first got into Maiden. I guess it's my dad's fault really! He let me loose on his old records and turntable when I was a kid. I was just facinated by this turntable and listened to all my dad's records. The Beatles, Beach Boys, Led Zep, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, and one was Iron Maiden's Best of the Beast album. I loved the harmonic and melodic guitar sounds they had going on. It just moved me I guess. Then CD came along and I started buying all their albums on CD and rumaging through my Dad's collection of CD's as well. Everytime my parents played something I would ask "Oooo what's this Dad?" I also loved Queen. Still do.

Then, when I was about 11 or 12, I picked up my cousin's guitar who was having lessons and he taught me my first few chords and song (an easy strumming version of 'Streets of London')! After that I was a rock and metal Goddess! I skipped learning the basics and went straight for the harder stuff. I was too impatient! I discovered that I had a good ear for music. I was learning to play songs just by listening to them (not meaning to brag) but it's how I learn to play songs today! Most of the time i'm pretty accurate. Besides, I believe that if you are copying a song it's your interpretation of it and accuracy isn't that important. As long as it sounds good that's all the matters. I've decided i'm more of a rhythm player and not much of a soloist. I couldn't be bothered to learn scales, and still can't! I preferr chords.

My first experience of learning music was when I learned to play the piano when I was about 4 or 5. Got to Grade 2, then got bored and moved on to violin. Played in a couple of orchestras and played a few concerts before getting bored with that as well. Then I learned keyboard and stuck with that for a while. I also like electronic music and I still play my keyboard sometimes! I'm currently trying to learn some Yes songs. But I still play guitar even now and I will never give that up. I love it too much. It's my form of relaxation, although I preferr my jumbo accoustic to my electric nowadays!