“In Guitar Center, people would think I was playing for the first time – but I promise you, my band makes better music than 80% of them”: Meet Chat Pile, the sludge metallers shouting down the “tone lords” and “goobers” ruining guitar culture

“Unlearning our instruments is definitely something we’ve done – we don’t rely on fretboard technique”

BIG|BRAVE conjure some of today’s most thrilling guitar tones with feedback, open tunings and an awful lot of volume.

I’m insanely jealous of novelists who plan out the whole thing and so have a structure to write to. I’ve tried that method and the process starts to lose its magic for me. And if it’s not got that spark for me, then I think the reader won’t have it either.