I heard recently about the death of the guitarist Eric Roche back in September.

I had the great pleasure of attending several of his performances at Acoustic Routes here in Cambridge.

With his old guitar mended with sellotape, full of microphones, pick-ups and sockets and his way to play crossing the arms, using his instrument like an orchestra, he was one of the most amazing guitarist I had the opportunity to see live.

Live recordings can be found on Acoustic Routes website:

• http://www.acousticroutes.co.uk/roche.mp3
• http://www.acousticroutes.co.uk/roche2.mp3
• http://www.acousticroutes.co.uk/roche3.mp3

A very good tribute CD is also for sale, details on Eric Roche's official website.

My signed copies of his CDs are now 'collector'... and that's bad news.