Guitar

RM Hubbert launches album Thirteen Lost & Found with friends

Aidan Moffat, Alex Kapranos and more to join in at Stereo show

6 Jan 2012

RM Hubbert’s debut album First & Last was more than just an instrumental record by a talented Glaswegian guitarist. Far from a commercial stepping-stone, the record was rather the result of Hubbert’s attempts to document a tumultuous three-year period…

Slash's 'sloppier' sound

Music Gossip

4 Jan 2012

Slash's musicianship may be "sloppier" on his next album. The former Guns N' Roses star is returning to the studio with his backing band to complete work on his second solo album, and is going for an as-live sound. He told Total Guitar magazine…

Matt Helders learning to play guitar

Music Gossip

18 Dec 2011

Arctic Monkeys' Matt Helders is learning to play the guitar. The drummer is taking some time off from touring and recording over the festive period, and is planning to devote some time to learning a new instrument and master a few riffs. He…

Slash recording second solo album

Music Gossip

5 Oct 2011

Slash will start recording his second solo album this weekend. The legendary ex-Guns N' Roses guitarist has 17 songs ready to take to the studio and already has blisters on his fingers from all the practice he's been putting in. In a series of…

Bert Jansch set for 2011 Edinburgh Festival date

Returning folk hero, pal of Neil Young and Devendra Banhart

16 Aug 2011

One of the great acoustic guitarists, Bert Jansch comes to Edinburgh fresh from an American tour with Neil Young and a London show with folk-jazz supergroup The Pentangle. Jansch has been doing an annual Festival show since the mid-90s, touching base…

Fingerstyle guitarist Andy McKee Glasgow and Edinburgh dates

Virtuoso guitar plucker who made his name on YouTube

28 Jul 2011

In 2006 American ‘fingerstyle’ guitarist Andy Mckee joined the YouTube sensation club when he posted a video of himself performing his song ‘Drifting’. It has to be seen and heard to be believed – nearly 78,000,000 hits and climbing – but McKee is…

Michael Collings' internet guitar skills

TV Gossip

19 Apr 2011

'Britain's Got Talent' hopeful Michael Collins learned how to play the guitar on the internet. The 19-year-old singer - who was awarded a standing ovation for his rendition of Tracy Chapman's 'Fast Car' on Saturday night's (16.04.11) show - admitted…

Kept Impulses: James Blackshaw, Nancy Elizabeth & Hauschka

6 May 2010

A self-taught 12-string acoustic guitar virtuoso, Hastings-based James Blackshaw weaves the minimalism of Philip Glass, through medieval ‘Early Music’, and the sparse ‘American Primitive’ guitar styles first played by John Fahey and Robbie Basho in the…

Lionel Loueke

25 Jun 2009

Guitarist Lionel Loueke came to jazz via an early immersion in African music in his homeland of Benin, a grounding that has contributed to the distinctive style that caught the ears of Herbie Hancock and Terence Blanchard, both of whom have called on…

Julian Argüelles

30 Apr 2009

Saxophonist Julian Argüelles is originally from the Birmingham area, but has spent a lot of his time in East Lothian since moving to Scotland five years ago to join his partner, singer Cathie Rae. He may be an adopted local, but his work on the jazz…

Haflidi Hallgrimsson’s Jacob’s Ladder

Sean Shibe is a young guitarist with angels at his fingertips

7 Aug 2008

While the Fringe’s reputation as a hotbed of new talent generally leans towards its hundreds of budding thespians, young musicians make an important contribution too. One such is 16-year-old classical guitarist Sean Shibe, who gives the first…

Martin Taylor

16 Jul 2007

JAZZ MARTIN TAYLOR The Hub, Edinburgh, Sat 28 Jul Guitarist Martin Taylor led his recently-formed (and punningly-titled) Freternity band at the Glasgow Jazz Festival last month, but his concert at the Edinburgh Jazz Festival will feature…