‘Alan Entwistle Pickups’ Artist

 

Matthew Healy

“I just got started by learning Metallica solos in my bedroom as a young teenager. I think all anyone wants to do when they start playing is play really, really fast.”

GENRE(S): Shoegaze, RnB, Country, Trad

INFLUENCES / FAVOURITE ARTISTS: Smashing Pumpkins, Deftones, Thin Lizzy, Melanie Faye, Johnny Marr, Tony Rice

BANDS – ACTIVE: Negro Impacto, Anie Valentine

BANDS – PREVIOUS: Qbanna (Latin RnB), Bucket (Noise Rock)

PREFERRED PICKUPS, AND WHY: The X90s hands down, I love P90s but as anyone who has ever owned a guitar with a set of them in it will know, they’re the noisiest things on the planet. The X90s are just deadly, they’ve got so much bite and clarity to them and yet they’re dead quiet, no hum off them whatsoever !!! and I love all of the different split-coil configurations you can do with the Entwistle pickups.

 

 

PRIME CUTS / STAND-OUT CAREER MOMENT SO FAR:

Supporting Madness at Trinity College, Supporting Damien Dempsey

and Kojaque at the Olympia Theatre and Playing at Other Voices

Festival in Dingle.

 

DISCOGRAPHY:

Solo stuff comin’ real soon so keep them eyes peeled!

GUITARS / AMPS / GEAR:

Revelation RVJT, Guitar Synthsss !!, Love the Roland Jazz Chorus too, can’t live without it.

GUITARS:

Revelation RVJT

Heavily modified Squier Affinity Strat

Epiphone Les Paul 1960’s Tribute Plus

Sigma DM-15E Aged

AMPS:

Roland JC-40

Bugera V22 Infinium

BIOGRAPHY:

I just got started by learning Metallica solos in my bedroom as a young teenager. I think all anyone wants to do when they start playing is learn how to play really really fast, ha ha. After years playing in my bedroom however, I went to college to study music and I absolutely fell in love with guitar. I got really into bluegrass and neo-soul stuff in particular and started sessioning for a few local bands (some of which, luckily, started to do quite well for themselves !). As of right now it’s how I make a living for myself.

I was always pretty broke growing up and I could never afford all of the deadly gear I’d see my favourite artists playing, so it just meant I had to get savvy with making cheap gear as good as the expensive stuff. Good thing I did too, because it meant by the time I got to college, between the session work and the repairs, I could just about pay the bills, ha ha. But I’ve always been a strong believer in not breaking the bank to sound deadly, and the lads here at Entwistle are really doin’ something special, and I’m just absolutely stoked to have my name associated with such a legendary guitar designer and the boys who are makin’ sick pickups and makin’ things happen alongside him.

“I’ve always been a strong believer in not breaking the bank to sound deadly, and the lads here at Entwistle are really doin’ something special. I’m just absolutely stoked to have my name associated with such a legendary guitar designer and the boys who are makin’ sick pickups and makin’ things happen alongside him.“

PEDALS:

BOSS RV6 reverb/delay

TC Electronic Hall of Fame reverb

BOSS SY-200 synthesizer

BOSS RC-3 loop station

BOSS DD-3 delay

DOD FX90 delay

DOD FX30b noise gate

Fender Pugilist distortion

Fender Trapper fuzz

Digitech Hardwire sp7 phaser

MXR Phase 90 phaser

Dunlop Crybaby wah

Electro Harmonix Hot Wax drive

SYNTHS:

Korg Volca Keys

Korg Volca Beats

‘Alan Entwistle Pickups’ Artist

 

Matthew Healy

“I just got started by learning Metallica solos in my bedroom as a young teenager. I think all anyone wants to do when they start playing is play really, really fast.”

GENRE(S): Shoegaze, RnB, Country, Trad

INFLUENCES / FAVOURITE ARTISTS: Smashing Pumpkins, Deftones, Thin Lizzy, Melanie Faye, Johnny Marr, Tony Rice

BANDS – ACTIVE: Negro Impacto, Anie Valentine

BANDS – PREVIOUS: Qbanna (Latin RnB), Bucket (Noise Rock)

PREFERRED PICKUPS, AND WHY: The X90s hands down, I love P90s but as anyone who has ever owned a guitar with a set of them in it will know, they’re the noisiest things on the planet. The X90s are just deadly, they’ve got so much bite and clarity to them and yet they’re dead quiet, no hum off them whatsoever !!! and I love all of the different split-coil configurations you can do with the Entwistle pickups.

BIOGRAPHY:

I just got started by learning Metallica solos in my bedroom as a young teenager. I think all anyone wants to do when they start playing is learn how to play really really fast, ha ha. After years playing in my bedroom however, I went to college to study music and I absolutely fell in love with guitar. I got really into bluegrass and neo-soul stuff in particular and started sessioning for a few local bands (some of which, luckily, started to do quite well for themselves !). As of right now it’s how I make a living for myself.

I was always pretty broke growing up and I could never afford all of the deadly gear I’d see my favourite artists playing, so it just meant I had to get savvy with making cheap gear as good as the expensive stuff. Good thing I did too, because it meant by the time I got to college, between the session work and the repairs, I could just about pay the bills, ha ha. But I’ve always been a strong believer in not breaking the bank to sound deadly, and the lads here at Entwistle are really doin’ something special, and I’m just absolutely stoked to have my name associated with such a legendary guitar designer and the boys who are makin’ sick pickups and makin’ things happen alongside him.

PRIME CUTS / STAND-OUT CAREER MOMENT SO FAR:

Supporting Madness at Trinity College, Supporting Damien Dempsey

and Kojaque at the Olympia Theatre and Playing at Other Voices

Festival in Dingle.

 

DISCOGRAPHY:

Solo stuff comin’ real soon so keep them eyes peeled!

“I’ve always been a strong believer in not breaking the bank to sound deadly, and the lads here at Entwistle are really doin’ something special. I’m just absolutely stoked to have my name associated with such a legendary guitar designer and the boys who are makin’ sick pickups and makin’ things happen alongside him.“

GUITARS / AMPS / GEAR:

Revelation RVJT, Guitar Synthsss !!, Love the Roland Jazz Chorus too, can’t live without it.

GUITARS:

Revelation RVJT

Heavily modified Squier Affinity Strat

Epiphone Les Paul 1960’s Tribute Plus

Sigma DM-15E Aged

AMPS:

Roland JC-40

Bugera V22 Infinium

PEDALS:

BOSS RV6 reverb/delay

TC Electronic Hall of Fame reverb

BOSS SY-200 synthesizer

BOSS RC-3 loop station

BOSS DD-3 delay

DOD FX90 delay

DOD FX30b noise gate

Fender Pugilist distortion

Fender Trapper fuzz

Digitech Hardwire sp7 phaser

MXR Phase 90 phaser

Dunlop Crybaby wah

Electro Harmonix Hot Wax drive

SYNTHS:

Korg Volca Keys

Korg Volca Beats

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