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From Ziggy's Les Paul to the masked, renamed and reinvented players who followed, British guitar music has always loved a character. But in a 2026 culture that sells itself as brutally authentic, does the alter ego still open doors — or is it just another costume? A knowing look at the mask, the mullet and the myth.
The bloke who played the most recognisable riff in British music history was paid a flat fee and left off the sleeve. As 2026's credit-hungry culture starts naming the players behind the hits, we ask what the session guitarist's disappearance cost us — and what we gain by dragging them into the light.
The support slot is the cheapest education in rock and roll: half an hour, no lights, a crowd still at the bar. Here are six British nights where the opening act walked off with the room — and the guitar moment that did it.
Every music city in the UK has a ghost gig: the show that was printed, advertised and almost real before a council notice, a broken van or a burst pipe got in the way. Why do the gigs that never happened linger longer than some of the ones that did?
A hundred-capacity room with a leaking ceiling and a sound engineer called Gav is still the most important piece of infrastructure in British guitar music. But nostalgia won't pay the licensing fee — here's what's actually happening to the grassroots circuit this winter, and why you should be in a small room on a Tuesday.