My heart hopes the Globe are right, my head is bound to share the Arts Council's concern about it in the long term.Michael HoldenChief Executive, Shakespeare Globe TheatreThe Shakespeare Globe, we appreciate, is a unique and rather special proposal. We expect 25,000 school and university students to attend our workshops and lectures over the next year; indeed, already 22,000 have come to us.There are significant capital amounts to be used, as what we are doing is of national importance. Being practical though, it is inevitable that there are worries - are the 20th-century theatregoers willing to visit this sort of establishment to see Shakespeare more than once? That, I feel sure, is the root cause of the Arts Council's concern about the future financial viability of the Globe. Should the national lottery fund the Globe Theatre? David Mellor Former Minister for National HeritageI have visited the Globe site and it is very exciting Sentimentally, one wishes it well. Suddenly this bloke leapt into action, threw back his head and "played" the song to his friends Halfway through he realised he was doing it right-handed His shame knew no bounds.I know I was that air-guitarist..

Now that his music is being played in public places again, they are being humiliatingly caught out It happened the other day. A strange quacking noise signalled the start of "Voodoo Chile", a famous Hendrix anthem. This month has been the anniversary of the death, 25 years ago, of Jimi Hendrix. Jimi was one of the undisputed masters of the electric axe, and has always been popular with air-guitarists But many of them tend to forget that he was left-handed. After all, you don't get air-violinists or air-ballerinas, do you?September 1995 has been a bad month for air-guitarists. Many of them have come unstuck and found themselves exposed as charlatans.

At least they have the decency to keep their fantasies to themselves. It is the ones who go public that are likely to bring modern music into disrepute. Most of these men (female air-guitarists are a rare exception) got stuck on page two of Bert Weedon's classic instruction manual, Play in a Day, and it has been downhill ever since. Now they content themselves with imitations, thinking in their heads that they look cool, but in truth resembling someone wringing a chicken's neck. They are the train-spotters of rock'n'roll. Many of them played along with all the "greats", appearing in their time at performances by Cream, Led Zeppelin and Oasis.