Job: IT mismanagement
Started playing: 13th birthday. Got the world's worst second hand (£32.50) supposedly Strat copy and fell in love with the instrument. The D tuning peg refused to rotate beyond a point so the guitar was always tuned around that string. Eeee, kids these days don't know they're born with their Epiphones and their Squiers.
This probably explains the recent stupid few years of chronic GAS that has resulted in...
Main gear: [fx:sharp intake of breath] Gibson Historic 56 Les Paul Gold Top , Ebony Gibson Les Paul Standard, Ebony Gibson ES-335, Ebony Gibson SG Standard, Gibson Gothic ES-135, Cherry Gibson Les Paul Special, Black Fender Telecaster Plus, Black 1979 Fender Strat with Joe Bardon p/u's. Black (sorry JetGlo) Rickenbacker 330/12, Epiphone ES-295, Jap CAR Fender Jazzmaster, Fender Jagstang, Jap Fender Mustang, Black Danelectro Baritone, Squier SuperSonic, Jap Fender Bass VI, Casio MG510 Guitar Synth, Steinberger Spirit GT, Hohner Jack bass, Ibanez Blazer with EMG S p/u's, Royal Medusa with EMG 80/85 p/u's and Kahler Pro trem, Gibson J45 acoustic, Tanglewood acoustic. And Epiphone Les Paul PeeWee.
All of this lives on a custom built rack that my wonderful father-in-law built.
I plug into Boss OD-2, EH Electric Mistress, Big Muff, MicroSynthesizer,Lovetone Meatball, Line 6 FM4 Filter Modeller, Digitech Wammy/Wah, Pod v2 with floorboard or Marshall JMP-1/Quadraverb/powered cabs (depends whether I'm recording or just making noise). I currently mostly play through a THD Electronics Univalve head plugged into a Rivera K212 2x12 - quite simply the best guitar sound I have ever heard.
Favourite music: Kraftwerk, The Cardiacs and most everything Tim Smith has laid his beautiful hands on, Placebo, Radiohead, Hendrix, Marco Peronni, Super Furry Animals, and yes damn it, They Might Be Giants.