Built on a series of light-hearted Facebook accounts of his time in the music business, 'Making it up as you go Along' is the story of Bill MacCormick's journey through the outer reaches of the music business in the 1960s and 70s.

Brought up on an early teenage musical diet of Beethoven, Brahms, the Beatles, Stax, and Tamla Motown, an accidental meeting with Robert Wyatt and the newly formed Soft Machine transformed his world view. Now, radically influenced by the Softs, the Mothers of Invention, Stravinsky, and Charlie Mingus, it describes his first faltering steps to musical anonymity with school friend and psychedelic guitar titan, Roxy Music's Phil Manzanera, and their school band, Pooh and the Ostrich Feather.

An 'accidental' bass player with failed prog rock combo Quiet Sun, he somehow survived to play, sometimes tour, and record with:

Robert Wyatt in Matching Mole and on his album 'Ruth is Stranger than Richard';

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