 What got me first into music? I guess it was my family. My mum was a singer. My dad was in bands in the 60s. I guess just growing up around them playing and singing and constantly around music, it just was a natural thing just to pick up an instrument and start playing piano or guitar or recorder or whatever. It was just always there. I'd play piano but I really have to think about that whereas guitar just comes a bit more naturally to me. I currently use the Artisan 30, got two of those which I use on stage for live stuff and then I also have the HT5 at home for practicing and recording a bit. I switched to Blackstar when I started working in a music store. I hadn't really heard of them before and I always thought that they were like a metal amp but then tried the Artisans and they were just brilliant. I wanted to be a pilot when I was a kid and I wanted to be a rally driver as well. I studied music production and sound engineering, audio electronics. I worked with production companies so like setting up gear and lights and pyro and all that kind of thing. I studied that and worked within that. I always thought if I can't be playing music, if I can't be on the stage I'll be behind the scenes within music somehow. The Artisan 30 was perfect for what I do because it's such a blank canvas. It doesn't colour your sound, it's just a perfect clean palette for you to build your sounds upon. It can do really heavy sounds, it can do super clean sounds, it can do everything in between. I would say to a beginner, be totally thorough in your learning but also don't think of it as like practicing when you're practicing. Think of it as playing. Zack Wild said a good thing once. He said that when you play a computer game you don't practice the computer game, you play it and then you get better at it. I really like that thought process of it. The future I think I'm just going to carry on playing as much as I can for people, touring as much as I can, focus a bit more on studio recording, writing with people. I mean essentially just keep on working. As much as I can just playing with as many people as I can and keep on going really.