A revolution a minute, or more precisely a few thousand during the chorus. The sonics of the South sound so sweet. Misc, who resides in his attic studio in Newbury, joined Interloper in Autumn 2005 to help with live guitar and recording duties. When he gets home from his day job as a graphic and web designer, Misc has a finger on the button of an SLR and invents unconventional instruments, utilising the most modern technological advances. He cites his influences as The Pixies, Sonic Youth and Boredoms.
He has stradled the diverse genres of blues rock with Hollister, art noise with Kooky and indie with *small-print. All with his devil pact idle hands. He plays guitar, bass and keyboards and occasionally turns his hand to the odd remix and mash-up. Misc enjoys hoarding artefacts until he has enough to build a time machine and start the process all over again.
E-mail misc@twistnotpush.com.
Misc plays a heavily modified 1970s Avon guitar, now known as the Avonator. A motorised rotator mechanism strums the strings, powered by pure blue. This leaves a hand free to tweak effects and generate unusual soundscapes.
Alongside the Avonator, he also plays a more conventional unmodified Epiphone Les Paul and a cranky old EB-3 shape bass. Misc's effects include Boss Flanger, Chorus and Blues Driver plus a ProCo RAT distortion pedal.