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Ryan Roxie to appear on The Reverb Live Stage

Ryan Roxie to appear on The Reverb Live Stage

Ryan Roxie is an American guitarist, singer/songwriter and content creator best known for his guitar work with Alice Cooper, Slash’s Snakepit, Gilby Clarke and Casablanca.   Roxie began working with Alice Cooper in 1996 on his School’s Out 96 tour, when he was offered a ‘one year contract’ as his touring guitarist. Roxie has been playing with Alice ever since, save for a few years break from touring in the late 2000s. His first show with the Alice Cooper band was at Sammy Hagar’s Cabo Wabo club in Cabo San Lucas which became the album “Fistful Of Alice” (1997).   Roxie has appeared on the Alice Cooper studio albums Brutal Planet (2000), Dragontown (2002) The Eyes...

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Irene Ketikidi to Appear on the Reverb Live Stage

Irene Ketikidi to Appear on the Reverb Live Stage

Irene Ketikidi rose to fame with her live performance of “Rambler” at Steve Vai’s 2010 Guitar Nation Masterclass in London. She has since then released two solo albums, toured internationally with various artists, and made a name for herself as a fierce lead player. The iconic Young Guitar Magazine has included Irene in the “Heroines of Now” column in 2014 and she has been featured in numerous webzines like Guitar World, Guitar Interactive and the Sound Guitar Magazine. Her debut album “Martial Arts and Magic Tricks” has been complimented by the likes of Guthrie Govan, Greg Howe, Nita Strauss and David Kilminster. Irene released her highly anticipated second solo...

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The Guitar Show Moves Venue

The Guitar Show Moves Venue

The Guitar Show is moving to a new venue. I suspect that unless you are a Birmingham resident you won’t have seen the news that a few weeks ago, The New Bingley Hall was destroyed by a fire. Routine maintenance of the roof by an external contractor caused a massive fire with 18 Fire Engines and 100 Fire Fighters in attendance. I have run events at TNBH for over a decade and my heart goes out to the team there. I paid a visit to survey the damage and the team were broken by it. Whilst this is an inconvenience for The Guitar Show, this is their livelihood. They have...

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Marshall Presents: Bernie Marsden

Marshall Presents: Bernie Marsden

Marshall Presents: Bernie Marsden on The Live Stage on Saturday 7th May. A big thank you to the guys at Marshall for always bringing a top guest.

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Ginger Wildheart & The Sinners

Ginger Wildheart & The Sinners

Ginger Wildheart & The Sinners will be on The Live Stage on Saturday 7th May at 14.00 Can’t deny it, I am quite excited about this, expect the Organisers Office to be shut for 40mins

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MORE UK BUILDERS

MORE UK BUILDERS

This isn’t a political post, more an acceptance that in a post-Brexit world things have changed. Many of the European builders just can’t (easily) get to the UK right now, deals between governments have still to be done. What has happened is that the UK scene has stepped up in a big way. Have a look at the exhibitor list and see just how many new UK based exhibitors are coming to the show. The future is bright, I can’t wait to see all the new products.

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NOT The Guitar Show 2021

With no show this year, I thought it would be good to mark the weekend, headover to @theguitarshowuk on social media and find loads of posts and some great deals from past exhibitors. Plus some great competition prizes from Marshall and Focusrite – see you over the 27th & 28th Feb. Jason

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9-42 The Guitar Show Podcast

9-42 The Guitar Show Podcast

  The Guitar Show has a podcast, Ant and I are chatting to guitarists every week whilst we are in lockdown You can check it out here https://feeds.captivate.fm/9-42/   9-42 TheGuitarShowPodcast · 9-42

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PHIL X – LIVE STAGE ANNOUNCEMENT

PHIL X – LIVE STAGE ANNOUNCEMENT

SUNDAY 1ST MARCH AT THE GUITAR SHOW 2020 JUST BEFORE PHIL X & THE DRILLS START THEIR UK TOUR, YOU CAN CATCH PHIL ON THE LIVE STAGE AT THE GUITAR SHOW   PHIL X & THE DRILLS Phil X & The Drills are announcing the release of their 5th Album Stupid Good Lookings Vol. 2 in early 2020 on Golden Robot Records. Featuring a different drummer on every song including the likes of Tommy Lee, Libery Devitto, Kenny Aronoff and Ray Luzier, the music promises to be extremely diverse. With live shows being described as “energetic guitar- driven ROCK punching your face with unbearably great anthems”, Phil X & his...

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Dan here, Mick here – That Pedal Show Live

Dan here, Mick here – That Pedal Show Live

  Daniel and Mick from That Pedal Show have built a large and loyal audience of tone-obsessed guitar players since their YouTube channel launched in 2015. Veterans of countless gigs, recording and band life, they’re on an endless quest for inspiring guitar sounds with a central mantra that there are no answers, only better questions. Daniel is founder and owner of TheGigRig, a company that builds effects switchers and rig solutions used by some of the world’s leading artists. Mick spent almost 20 years as a guitar journalist across a number of titles, notably as editor-in-chief of Guitarist, Total Guitar and Guitar Techniques. Together they are That Pedal Show with...

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