 Hello, my name is Jim Davies. I'm here at Olympic Hall Studios today to do some live recording of a track from my new album. All the bands I've played in since I was 21 have been electronic based. So I've always had to be aware that what I'm playing has got to get over that massive amount of sub bass, a lot of electronic drums. I sort of learned quite early on that you can't always play what you want to play over that style of music. Which I think is why sort of a lot of the lead sounds I use are very harsh and shrill. When you're putting guitar over electronic music you find that a lot of the time you have to play quite sparse. You can't shred over the whole thing and it's just not going to work. So I tend to try and be quite liberal with where I put the guitar so it actually works and stands out. The whole electronic music angle completely changed how I played guitar because I was just so bored of playing rock riffs and trying to play fast. I sort of sacked all that off. I suppose I wanted to be able to play keyboard and the synth side of stuff and I didn't really understand it that well at all. So I just remember thinking I'll try and do a bit of that on guitar. So I just copied sounds and got into weird peddles. The prodigy ended up playing at my university and I went to see them play. I just asked a roadie where their guitarist was and they said they don't have one at the moment. So I just went home and done a really bad demo tape of me playing over Geoak Generation. I brought it back and gave it to the band and didn't expect to hear anything. But I did a couple of weeks later and they asked me to do a few gigs with them and it just turned into playing with them for about a sort of a year almost. I don't tend to write tracks with a guitar. I feel a bit of a fraud stood here like this as if I sit in my bedroom going I'm going to write a song. I never ever do that. I never have. I always sort of write facing a computer, playing into a computer, jamming around, playing guitar parts over loops and riffs. It's a very different world playing over electronic stuff. The main amp I use at home in my home studio is an HT20 which is quite a small compact head because I go from the emulated speaker output out the back. I love the sound of mic'd up guitars but a lot of the time it's just hard work to be able to crank it that loud and be able to record it.