George Corcoran Custom Flying-V

Onstage with Jackal-Headed Guard of the Dead at Bannermans Bar Edinburgh December 2012. The debut appearance of the V

A whole bunch of my mates did the best thing ever and put money together to get George Corcoran to build me a custom guitar for my 40th birthday and I got it today and it is bloody brilliant. I had no idea it was being made and laughed when I saw it because it was exactly what I wanted. Over the previous couple of months the CIA had been tapping my phone and various SAS and Taliban operatives used hypnosis, surveillance, telepathy and subterfuge to secretly discover what my dream guitar would be, by asking me, and me being a trusting sort didn't twig... Anyway thanks to all the skulls who chipped in and to George for making it!!!

Fender Dual Showman 135 Watt Head

 Amplifier and cab setup for Jackal-Headed Guard of the Dead recording session 2013

I got my Fender in 1995 for 175 quid. It is very fucking loud. I think it sounds great for all the heavy distorted music I make. Whether that be stoner, sludge, grind, punk or black metal. If you want a scooped sound or ultra futuristic digitally saturated sound you can fuck off.

Antoria Les Paul Gold Top

 At the Hull Adelphi with Concrete Head in 1995

This guitar ruled, unfortunately it was destroyed in an international whisky accident in Wealdstone 2000AD. I got it in 1994 for a hundred and fifty quid. I instantly replaced the pickups with a Gibson Usa PAF in the neck and a pickup of an unknown make taken out of a Seville semi acoustic because it was massively loud.

B.C. Rich Bitch

My B.C. Rich was my third guitar. I got it in 1989. Some folk say it is shit because it is Korean. It's lasted me fine. I put a Khaler trem system on it and it's had millions of pickups in it over the years. Anyway here we are with some pictures, videos and posters of me using my old bitch. Once sleek, now battered, still metal.

Wielding the bitch with Warp Spasm at the Tower Nightclub, Hull 1992.