Gwyn Ashton at The Musician

Date: Sun 21st Aug
Time: 20:00

un 21st Aug 2016
Gwyn Ashton
£10.00
Doors 8:00pm
gwynashton.com
UK-based Australian guitarist Gwyn Ashton re-defines the term ‘solo artist’ by delivering a high-energy blues-rock show, wrenching dirty slide guitar licks out of a pre-war National steel and various guitars through an array of vintage fuzz boxes, organ pedals and amplifiers. He does all this while he blows harp and sings into a distorted bullet harp mic, thumb-picks thick heavy-duty Zeppelin- like bass riffs through octave dividers and loops percussive sounds on the guitar with pick scrapes and a drumstick to emulate snare drum passages, whilst stomping on a kick drum.

Ashton's full-on, hardcore contemporary electric blues show is interlaced with semi-acoustic lap slide and 12-string guitars where he blends in dance rhythms, beats and grooves. He’s been doing this all over the world - from the UK to Ireland, Australia, Russia, Brazil and all across Europe, giving 100% relentless energy and drive at each show, dragging the blues into the 21st century.

"Ashton plays like Keith Richards on a good night and that's really saying something" - Vintage Guitar Magazine.

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