‘i feel that i’m kind of underrated…’

WHEN SESSION MAN Tim Pierce looks back at his career, he doesn’t view himself as a legend who’s played on more than a thousand records; instead, his perspective is one of deep gratitude. “It seemed li

Neville Marten recalls interviews with one of his musical idols, the singer-songwriter supreme and total legend, the great JT himself

It was a 24/7 existence. The phone did not stop ringing. It was like being on Concorde for six years, and I loved it. The speed at which they went from A-Z was incredible. They did the Marquee, then t

Queen took Live Aid by storm when they ran on to the stage at Wembley to perform their greatest hits – so why do Brian May and Roger Taylor recall the band being so apprehensive beforehand?

BACK IN 2015, Swiss guitarist Nicolas Meier was playing a low-key gig with violinist Lizzie Ball at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in London. Nothing about it seemed out of the ordinary at first, until Meie

Amid the mayhem of his European tour, Joe takes time out to give us a guided tour around his 2025 live gear, delivers the lowdown on some of his more storied guitars, and tells us why his mighty multi-amp rig has to run at breaking point in order to make the earth move and those riffs resonate…