Why Acoustic Jim?

So my musical alter ego is Acoustic Jim. By day I market a website and by night I fight (or commit depending on how you see it) musical crime. There are some people around me who have made it clear that they do not like the name "Acoustic Jim" and indeed ask me when I will change it. My answer is never!

The name came about when a compere introduced me as "Acoustic Jim." He was drunk and didn't know what he was saying but it stuck and 18 months later it is still my handle. One thing is for sure, love it or hate it, it does what it says on the tin. I play acoustic music and my name is Jim. My reasons for keeping it however, are not sentimental, but carefully considered.

Even if you hate the name you engage with it. To engage with it means it is more memorable and when marketing myself (without sounding too much like a commercial whore) making my name memorable is important. All too often I watch acts that I like and can never remeber their names because they simply use there actual and easily forgettable name. Experience has taught me that people find my surname difficult to get their head around let alone remember. Acoustic Jim on the other hand is a name which instantly sticks and often preceeds me.

Here ends today's reading!

I fear that I rarely have enough interesting material to share with the world, which has deterred me from blogging before. I also wonder whether anyone really cares however, this has not stopped many millions of bloggers around the world so I decided it shouldn't stop me. Who is this blog for? Who knows? I will let it evolve organically.