Well, in my year and a half as a guitarist, I have never played a gig - but that is finally about to change! My teacher and I are going to play a little nylon-stringed set at a nearby conservatorium of the arts of some repute (well... the local pub :D). We'll be doing European minor-key folk sort of stuff, a folky instrumental cover of Metallica's "The Unforgiven", perhaps Ali Farka Toure's "Diaraby", maybe a Tull number... ought to be a great palate cleanser after working on metal for so long. And I'm also joining a guitar ensemble at uni, which ought to be cool.

So I'm rather excited - any first-gig tips, or pub-gig tips?

And also, a question - anyone heard of a song/piece called "Conquest of the Realm"? It's one of the songs my teacher showed me that we're to play at the gig, but I didn't ask whether it was an original or a cover...