Bernard Butler

Bernard Butler is an incredibly talented multi-instrumentalist, and I’ve followed his alternative rock and Britpop music since pretty early on in his career. The standard of his guitar playing blows me away every single time I hear it, and watching him play effortlessly live was absolutely incredible. He opened with a pretty lengthy rocky guitar solo, accompanied by an awesome drummer, and they had everyone dancing along before Butler had even introduced himself and they show.

As well as being an incredible musician himself, he’s a great producer, and actually won himself a BRIT award at the 2009 awards for Producer of the Year. He played an awesome set when I saw him recently, and opened with the single Stay, from his debut solo album. He had everyone singing along, and encouraged us all to dance along with him. It was awesome that he also played some super famous tracks from his time in Suede, as well as McAlmont and Butler.

His energy was really high, and it was infectious to the crowd. He maintained his enthusiasm for the entire 2 hour set, and played some phenomenal tracks on both guitar and piano.