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Guitar History

Sixty Quid and a Bad Attitude: The Guitars That Rewired Britain

Fifty years on from punk's incendiary summer, we look at the battered budget fretboards behind the noise — the catalogue specials, pawn-shop cast-offs and borrowed amps that proved you didn't need a fortune to matter. With recollections from the players and repair benches who saw it first time round.

Nov 7, 2026

Opinion

Sticky Carpets, Real Stakes: The Room Above the Pub Is Not a Museum Piece

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.

Nov 7, 2026