but luckily the Melody Maker had and it was just out in the truck, so I brought it in. “Rory said, ‘Oh, he’ll like playing ...

Cadogan's latest role? Testing out the late Rory Gallagher's guitars before their much-anticipated auction on October 17. The Irish legend's 1963 Gibson Melody Maker is one that particularly ...

Townshend boosted his income in other ways - a weekly column in Melody Maker and essays for Rolling Stone. He was also occasionally writing songs for other artists and bands, such as It Was You by ...

“The Clash would always credit him. But he had been named the best guitarist in the world by Melody Maker and that made him a target for the NME. If you were a Melody Maker artist, the NME ...

[This] caused the departure from the Foo Fighters ranks of Pat Smear, latterly Nirvana's auxiliary guitarist and a close friend of Youngblood." Discussing his divorce in 1999 with Melody Maker ...

The American guitarist is playing three shows in the Irish city of ... In 1974, an eye-witness report from Melody Maker writer Roy Hollingworth stated: “Belfast got a rock ’n’ roll concert on New Year ...

David Medcalf paid a call to instrument maker Kevin Harrington who not only ... And as well as attending to his schooling, he started playing guitar, embarking on a career as a part-time performer ...

Through saxophonist Evan Parker and guitarist Derek Bailey ... For Someone (Incus), a record that juxtaposed free and jazz elements (and which became Melody Maker Album Of The Year in 1975), and Gnu ...

Robert Smith dismissed his band’s second-highest charting single as a boozy aberration. But it may have saved The Cure from ...

A review in Melody Maker called the music "a daft punky thrash ... represented by a groups of dancers (skeletons represent the guitar line, mummies act out the drum pattern and synchronised ...

The forward-looking, Cajun-rooted rock band's sweaty, swamp-powered punk rock has helped new generations find Louisiana ...

When it was confirmed this week that Rory Gallagher’s famous 1961 Fender Stratocaster will remain in his native Ireland - after being sold at auction for £889,400 - nobody was happier than Joe ...