Zac Ware is never happier than when he is playing a guitar and singing a song. He does this in many ways, Melissa Blease discovers, including playing guitar with The Proclaimers, putting songs together with other musicians in his state of the art studio and entertaining others by playing his...
Daisy Game chats to luthier Gary Leddington about the joys of building a guitar… “The main two types of wood that people build guitars from are Rosewood and Mahogany. Mahogany tends to be sweet, but maybe a bit trebly, and Rosewood tends to be a little darker…” Listening to guitar...
Richard Wyatt talks to Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull – who is performing at Bath Abbey in December – about performing in churches, why he likes to give back, and if, at the age of 75, he is still managing to play the flute on one leg. On 12 December...
A deep-and-meaningful with devout northern soul Richard Hawley – on life and death, chess and underdogs, ploughing your own furrow and fraternising with Fontaines D.C. Words by Amanda Nicholls. Rock ’n’ roll’s silver-tongued Sheffield crooner is running late. It’s not that he’s hungover or apt to prima donna behaviour even...