Music and silence

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…

IT WAS WITH great sadness that I learned of the passing of Mike Peters of the Alarm this week after his decades-long struggle with cancer. I had the privilege of meeting Mike several times over the ye

Send your brickbats, bouquets, reminiscences, textual critiques, billets-doux and all forms of printable correspondence to letters@uncut.co.uk

The former Cars six-stringer talks early guitar exploits, the golden age of vintage-guitar buying, and why he’s not as jazzed about amps as he is about guitars themselves

Your letters to the Guitarist editor. Drop us a line at guitarist@futurenet.com

The month’s best guitar music – a hand-picked selection of the finest fretwork on wax