Recent digital innovations may very well have removed much of the fun from the messing-about-with-guitars-and-stuff business these days but luckily enough there are still enough traditionalists out there to support existing technologies, so the FX pedal market is still stuffed with manufacturers both large and small and despite some recent

The below piece was written in August 2008. This was when YouTube had been in existence for less than three years and before the explosion of social media. Facebook wasn’t a thing yet and most people were still tinkering with their first MySpace pages at the time. Its impossible to

During September 2018, I was invited to participate in Classic Album Sunday’s upcoming celebration of Sonic Youth’s ‘Daydream Nation’. This was to take place in the form of a full album playback and talk by myself and other guests at Portsmouth’s excellent Pie & Vinyl record shop. Having been given

If you nip up to Foyles on the Charing Cross Road and have a peruse of their impressive music department you can find a whole load of coffee table books dedicated to photographs of rare and valuable guitars. These will feature high quality reproductions of images of classic guitars with

Note- This profile of Johnny Ramone was originally commissioned by Guitar & Bass magazine and was printed in the July 2010 issue. It is republished here in its entirety, without the unintentional cut made by the sub-editor that ruined the final paragraph. The story of the Ramones is the story

An opinion piece from 2010. I think the reference to ‘emotional hardcore’ in the final paragraph was probably past its sell by date even back then. I wasn’t the target market for Emo, so how was I supposed to know? Cor…shredding became unfashionable for a long time didn’t it? Now