Are You Sure That's A Saxophone? is the memoir of a gigging musician who finds herself playing bad gig after bad 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 f?te, 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.