In a new feature Ben from The 4130's will be giving his top ten punk rock things every Thursday. I'm brilliantly calling it Top Ten Thursdays. Here is his top ten UK punk guitarists.
1. Mickey Trenter (Red Flag 77, Lovejunk) -
Micky makes my number 1. I can listen to his guitar work in Lovejunk all day
long and if he didn't live in the same town as me I'd have stolen all his riffs
for my own band years ago.
2. Steve Pod (Vanilla Pod) - When I think
of my fave UK punks songs ever written the bulk of them come from Steve, I'm
not sure I've ever seen him make a mistake live either.
3. Luke Edmund Yates (The Human Project) -
Luke is a complete shredder and has a shed load of stage presence too. A stand
out in a band full of legends for me.
4. Alex Wonk (Wonk Unit) - We all know Alex
for his robotics and smooth sensual voice but people often forget how good he
is on guitar in the same way people forget how good Fat Mike is on bass because
of his voice.
5. Rob Piper (Darko) - It's no secret in
the scene that Darko pretty much set the bench mark for twiddly new era skate punk
bands and Rob is at the forefront of making Darko stand out as top of the pile
in that genre.
6. Daniel Williams (The Liabilities) - Dan
takes a lot of flak for his sometimes close to the bone songwriting, mostly by
people who have never smiled in their lives but his guitar work is out of this world
when you strip it down. Someone who drinks that much shouldn't be that good
live.
7. David Speechley (Fair Do's) I've not
seen David play live yet . I've somehow got through life without seeing Fair Do's
but his playing on studio tracks is enough for him to be included on my list.
8. Ben Davis (Spoilers) - I love Ben's
style. He's super relaxed live and is as fluid as nobody's business. He's also
the tour manager for Lagwagon but he doesn't like to talk about that ;)
9. Chris Brown (Darko) - The other Darko
shredder. With Darko you can count on two things amazing guitar work and hot
sweaty sets full of energy. Also Chris is probably one of the nicest guys I've
met in the scene too.
10. Dan Goatham (Spoilers) - One of them
rare guitarists who can set a mood for a song and it'll always be catchy, I'm
pretty sure if you asked Dan to write a shoe gaze song he'd find a way for it
to not be boring as fuck.
Now listening to Anti-Social Day by 3 Minute Warning
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