Everyone has had that dream where you turn up at school – and it is always school – and what do you know? You’ve got no pants on. Well, there is a six-string equivalent of this, and Mike Dawes recently lived it when he started jamming with Tommy Emmanuel on live television, only to discover that his acoustic guitar was in the wrong tuning.
There he was, on the genial, comfortably beige set of what looks like a morning TV show, in a guitar situation with all the horror of the last act of The Exorcist.
