Are You Sure That's A Saxophone

Are You Sure That's A Saxophone? is the memoir
of a gigging musician who finds herself playing
bad gig afterbad gig, whilst hoping a high-level
music executive might be in the Rose and Crown Pub
at the next Open Mic night. Often comical, often heart-wrenching, Sarah Skinner
bares her soul in this memoir. She writes about
the promoter who threatened to have her beaten up,
the time she played a gig in front of 3,000 people
with her foot in a bucket of ice, the time she
earned less than an owl for a gig at a village fête,
and many many more. All the stories in the book are based in the U.K.
and Europe. Skinner is British-born but now based
in Canada, and grateful to have this agonising
warts-and-all part of her musical career behind her. Are You Sure That's A Saxophone? will appeal to
armchair travellers, musicians and anyone who
realises there's a little more to making a living
as a musician than crossing your fingers
and applying for X Factor. This book is for anyone who truly believes it takes hard work and dedication to make a comfortable living as a not-remotely-famous musician and not being talent-spotted by someone in a pub on Friday night in Wigan and suddenly becoming the Next Big Thing.