MONITOR PEOPLEPEOPLE ✪ NNEWSEws ✪ NONOISEISE O N T H E 12 U P HAMISH ANDERSON Aussie blues-rock man hurries up and waits here’s a trend This approach pervades with being horribly writing I find too often that I’ll among young every aspect of Hamish’s patronising – suggests an ear get distracted by a message or bluesmen, process. Part Tom Petty, part JJ that’s gifted rather than I’ll open up social media and T much like the Cale, his deftly-constructed honed. Trust us: sounding this get lost. When writing on a perennial boy 2017 debut album Trouble led relaxed in the digital age takes typewriter you can be totally racer, to play guitar with to him touring the US a lot of work. in your zone.” go-faster stripes, souping up alongside Vintage Trouble and “I write on a typewriter He’ll need that focus: 2018 knackered licks with frippery Kenny Wayne Shepherd last when I can,” expands is already shaping up to be a and cold pace. LA-based, year. But it’s his gravelly Hamish. “Because you really big year, with second-album Australian-born songwriter guitar work – undress-y, have to commit to what you sessions and a trip to Europe Hamish Anderson is a very louche and noticeably slower write and you can eliminate on the cards. “The goal is to different proposition. He playing than his peers – that distractions. I use my phone perform in the UK in 2018,” favours the slow burn. truly sets him apart. Lyrical to get ideas down quickly as reveals Hamish. Let’s just “[It’s] simplicity,” Hamish and soulful in a way that few they come and record voice hope that this is one thing tells TG. “I’ve never been manage, it would be tempting memos; when it comes to lyric he does quickly. interested in being a to dub Hamish ‘wise beyond technically good guitarist – or his years’, but that – along FOR FANS OF Jonathan Wilson GEar ’52 Telecaster Reissue, Twin Reverb in speed for that matter. For me, I’m more attracted to feel and simplicity, so that’s the i’ve never been interested in being A type of guitar player that I strive to be.” TECHNICALLY GOOD GUITARIST – or in speed... TOTAL GUITAR MARCH 2018 TGR303.mon_up.indd 12 2/1/18 12:53 PM ON THETHE UP PEOPLEPEOPLE ✪ NNEWSEws ✪ NONOISEISE FREAK MOANING Essex’s frantic three-piece unleashed Sub Pop-signed post-punks wail eizing the torch Hot Chili Peppers and Nirvana n some ways LA’s micro-leads between jarring chord recently sparked by the tracks,” says Connar. “The chaos Moaning are the sequences most affectingly on S likes of Slaves, of the solos in songs like You Really I quintessential Moaning’s stellar single Don’t Go. Chelmsford three- Got Me, Dani California and In misplaced post-punk “That solo is meant to represent a piece Freak add a Kinks-y edge to Bloom are what get me really band, but music knows no borders, sense of urgency and longing,” he brain-melting boredom and excited.” Connar’s talent is so alongside the downbeat tells TG. “I don’t like long and middle-class mundanity. Utilising combining this sort of short, sharp distortion, recalling rain- drawn-out guitar parts. I like a beloved Fiesta Red Strat lead explosion with earworm chord drenched, rubble mounds of 80s getting to the point as quickly as 13 (‘Bianca’), frontman Connar Ridd progressions. “I do my own thing. Manchester, there’s a subtle, possible. I hate jammers and has an ear for a shreddy lick, [With the guitar] there isn’t one expansive West Coast synth gleam noodlers.” It’s a wavering balance, interspersing manic Cobain and right way, loads of things work – and bass zip that diverts from one of “atonal guitar chords Davies-influenced lead lines on that’s what makes it so exciting.” pastiche to poetry. Frontman- juxtaposed with catchy melodies”. Everyone’s The Same and I Like To guitarist Sean Solomon is Smile When I’m Sad. “I’ve always For fans of Slaves, Arctic Monkeys economical and exorcising in his For fans of Protomartyr, METZ GEar Fender Strat, Hot Rod Deville GEar Fender Mustang, Deluxe Reverb loved crazy solos in The Kinks, Red lyrics and his playing, dropping in ROBERT EARL THOMAS VUNDABAR LOVEBITES Tim-Oxton M WHO: Widowspeak guitarist flying solo WHO: Boston guitarist/songwriter Brandon WHO: Japanese metallers Midori and Mi-ya ichael-Stasiak SOUNDS LIKE: Woozy, gentle echoes of Tom Hagen SOUNDS LIKE: Myth, might and awe-inspiring Petty and Bruce Springsteen interlaced with SOUNDS LIKE: Introspective garage pop. Easy to shred leads M folk to create a sort of hopefully hopeless swallow but reveals melancholic side effects GEar: Midori - E-II FRX SW Custom, Kemper Drivin-n-Vibinichael-Schmelling Americana GEar: Fender Deluxe Roadhouse, Fender Profiling Amp. Mi-ya –Dean Guitars Icon, GEar: 90s Mexican Strat, Fender Blues Junior Deville Orange Dual Dark 100 For fans of The War On Drugs, Kurt Vile For fans of Les Savy Fav, Mellah For fans of DragonForce, Sonata Arctica HEar Another Age HEar Acetone HEar Shadowmaker MARCH 2018 TOTAL GUITAR TGR303.mon_up.indd 13 2/1/18 12:53 PM.