MALC : LEAD & ACOUSTIC GUITARS / BACKING VOCALS

Malc began his musical journey on the clarinet, but after realising he'd never sound better than a cat hissing down a tube, picked up his parents' nylon-strung guitars in 1989 and never looked back. Electrifying a few years later and graduating onto his prized black-and-white Fender Strat, superstardom seemed almost within reach with his school rock band, NYTESHAYDE, whose moment in the sun was 'Rocking the Redgrave' Theatre in Farnham for a Battle of the Bands in 1993 - but perhaps man was not meant to wield so many Y's.

His follow-up musical project, DELAYED REACTION, straddled the twin arenas of pop and rock, whilst his university band, KICKBACK, damaged student ears at the Boiler House Battle of the Bands and the open-air Wessex Lane all-day event (extreme metal at 11 in the morning? Nice.). After answering Ian's ad in the paper, he joined the ranks of the RiffToads (or as they were back then, Kingsize Cactus or possibly The Anthill Mob) in 2004 as lead guitarist, and has since gained an appreciation for all things Beatle. Currently he also writes and records on his blinged-up home PC, and occasionally cranks out blazing prog metal epics with jamming buddy and fellow music nerd Dave G on keyboard.

He currently shreds through a Line 6 Spider 212 amp, after hammering his beloved Peavey Bandit into the ground. Equipment:

• Fender Stratocaster (USA Plus), with Seymor Duncan George Lynch Lil' Screamin' Demon (!) bridge pickup
• Epiphone Les Paul Standard (blue sunburst - gorgeous!)
• Line 6 Spider 212
• E-Bow
• Metal slide
• Occasional Crybaby Wah

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