Artist Rigs

Guitarist Neil Ivison has toured the world as a tech working with the likes of The 1975, Klaxons and Corinne Bailey Rae, and his interest in vintage instruments has recently developed into a guitar-building venture of his own.

Beatle guitars have been no strangers to auction houses in recent years, but this might be one of the most interesting and unique of them all.

Former Reuben frontman Jamie Lenman is synonymous with his beaten-up Yamaha RGX. Here he tells Sam Roberts why it sounds like razor blades…

Three albums in, a packed touring schedule and a song gracing a big-budget mobile phone advert took Kill It Kid to the masses. But at the height of their success, Chris Turpin and Stephanie Jean dissolved the band and formed Ida Mae, a rootsy Americana duo. And then the real fun began…

The legendary Rolling Stones rhythm king on the home-made bass that he brought back from the dead to provide the bedrock of some of the Stones’ earliest recordings.

The Magic Numbers frontman is rarely seen without his trusty Gibson semi - he tells Josh Gardner why it’s such an important guitar for him…

Andy Scott’s red ES-335 starred on the Sweet’s remarkable string of glam hits in the early 1970s. Steve Clarke gets up-close with this storied Gibson and busts a few myths about it along the way…

The indie-rock guitarist tells us why he’s so attached to this eye-catching Hanson semi – provided that you know the right code word, at least…

The late, great Gary Moore might have been better known for his electric guitar playing, but the Northern Irish blues icon knew his way around an acoustic, too – and in the mid-90s, his go-to was this O22 from George Lowden.

For a quarter of a century, Feeder have endured as one of the UK’s most consistent rock bands, outlasting many of their peers and still going strong. We sit down with frontman Grant Nicholas and bassist Taka Hirose to talk through the instruments that have shaped their musical journey.