Are You Sure That's A Saxophone? A Memoir

‘Are You Sure That’s A Saxophone?’ is the memoir of a gigging musician playing bad gig after bad gig and hoping a high-level music executive would happen to 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 fete, 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 far 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.