Thursday April 30, 2009 Steve Vai: London Masterclass tickets selling fast
Apart from bring the star attraction at this year's London Guitar Festival (as part of the London International Music Show on June 11-14), virtuoso
Steve Vai is also bringing his acclaimed Alien Guitar Masterclass to London.
It's an amazing...
A Lesson In Rock: BIMM Summer Schools in Bristol and Brighton
The Brighton Institute of Modern Music (BIMM Brighton) and the Bristol Institute Of Modern Music (BIMM Bristol) are launching a whole new set of jaw dropping Summer Schools for 2009. This includes the BIMM Brighton Total Guitar Summer School (hosted by Total...
Wednesday April 29, 2009 Six-String Summer: International Guitar Festival in Bath boasts stellar line-up
This Summer’s International Guitar Festival is already looking like the best ever with seminars and workshops by top guitarists that will make you a better player.
The Bath event kicks off on July 24 through to August 8 and has workshops to suit...
Guitar Hero: Vote for your favourite songs
Aside from the Metallica edition in May, the latest edition of the massively popular Guitar Hero videogame series coming this Summer is Greatest Hits – bringing together the best songs from Guitar Hero 1,2, 3 and Encore: Rocks The Eighties incarnations but...
2009 Is The Year Of The Reunion: Today it's Fear Factory
Hot on the heels of the Creed reunion comes the news that original Fear Factory members Dino Cazares (guitar) and Burton C Bell (vocals) are working together again under the FF name and have announced appearances at this Summer's Sonisphere and ...
Tuesday April 28, 2009 Download Festival: Day tickets on sale Friday
Download Festival has announced that day tickets will go on sale this Friday (May 1) at 9am
A limited number of day tickets for this year’s festival – taking place between June 12-14 – will be available priced at £65 (plus booking fee).
For classic...
With Wallets Wide Open: Creed reform for new album, tour [UPDATED]
It's been on the cards for months and now it's confirmed – the 40-million album selling Creed have reformed for a US tour this year and will record a new album.
“We exchanged family pictures and within 20 minutes we were jamming on acoustic guitars and...
Monday April 27, 2009 Are Heaven & Hell Going To Play The Download Festival?
Today marks the release of Heaven & Hell 's (that's the Dio-fronted Black Sabbath line-up by another name) excellent The Devil You Know album. You can read all about Tony Iommi 's thoughts on the making of it in the next issue of Guitarist (on sale May 12)...
Get The Funk Out For Less: New Washburn Nuno guitars
At Guitarist we feel that the understated beauty of a natural finish is very often more than words can ever say, and Washburn’s acclaimed Nuno Bettancourt N4 is no exception. The good news for us credit crunchers is there’s two new affordable N models now...
Friday April 24, 2009 Guitarist Diaries: The Answer @ LG Arena, Birmingham, 23/4/2009
If you’re an up-and-coming rock band, have paid a hefty portion of your dues and your second album is being hailed as one of the best of the year, which tour would you choose to be support act on? Which would give you the best exposure to like-minded fans, yet...
Wednesday April 22, 2009 Win a BC Rich Guitar With Bloodstock Festival
The Bloodstock festival is offering you the chance to win a BC Rich guitar signed by top players Tony Iommi, Herman Li (Dragonforce), Joe Satriani and Yngwie Malmsteen .
The competition is being run to draw attention to an important cause that should be...
Tuesday April 21, 2009 Bands, Bands And More Bands: 17 new additions to the Download festival line-up
A whopping 17 new acts have been announced as additions to the existing Download Festival line-up – set to take place between 12 and 14 June at Donington raceway.
The bands are:
Hatebreed, A Day to Remember, In This Moment, Therapy?, We Are The...
Happy Iron Maiden Day!
Sister mag Metal Hammer has decided that today (21st April) is official Iron Maiden Day and while we reckon that every day should be so adorned, the reason is that Iron Maiden: Flight 666 , the rockumentary behind the band’s recently-completed Somewhere Back...
Monday April 20, 2009 Stone The Crow: Down add dates for June
Already confirmed for the Donington Download festival in the same month, Down – the New Orleans band featuring former Pantera frontman Phil Anselmo and bassist Rex Brown plus Corrosion Of Conformity's Pepper Keenan in their ranks – have announced three...
Thursday April 16, 2009 Guitarist Diaries: AC/DC @ 02 Arena, London, 14/2/2009
1 x giant runaway freight train – check
One giant inflatable Rosie straddling said freight train – check
1 x Hells bell – check
6 x pyrotechnical cannons – check
1 x hydraulic lifting platform for lead guitarist’s solo spot – check
Yep, all present...
