<div style="page-break-before:always; page-break-after:always">His duo with drummer/vocalist John Newton, John are a force to be reckoned with. The pair met at college in London and bonded over bands they loved &ndash; Metz, Ceremony, Protomartyr, Earth, Isis, Fugazi &ndash; and soon started making noise in a room. John&rsquo;s 2017 debut album God Speed In The National Limit and follow-up Out Here On The Fringes were powerful illustrations of their massive garage-y racket, while their arty twist endeared them to those hip types at BBC 6Music and The Guardian. They&rsquo;ve supported Idles and McLusky, and appeared at this year&rsquo;s Green Man and End Of The Road festivals. To get an idea of their power, search YouTube for their pummeling set on Seattle&rsquo;s KEXP Radio. Their superb new third album, Nocturnal Manoeuvres, brings together all the experience they&rsquo;ve earned, with moments of atmosphere and nuance that make you forget there&rsquo;s just two guys here.<div style="page-break-before:always; page-break-after:always">As a kid, Healey was a wannabe shredder into Vai, Satriani and Gilbert, before discovering Deftones, Rocket From The Crypt, Drive Like Jehu, and falling under the spell of John Reis&rsquo;s ferocious strumming hand. &ldquo;I prefer that style of playing,&rdquo; says Healey. &ldquo;At the beginning in John we played constantly &ndash; this constant rhythm between guitar, drums and John&rsquo;s singing &ndash; because we didn&rsquo;t know the different tricks we&rsquo;ve learned along the way.&ldquo;Later, I&rsquo;d use a Micro POG [octave] pedal, and send the Dry Out to my effects and into my guitar amp. Then I&rsquo;d send the Effects Out through a kill switch and into a bass amp. With my foot on the kill switch I could play just guitar; with my foot off, the bass would come in. So I was creating dynamic between guitar and bass &ndash; loud and massive in some parts, quieter in others.&rdquo;Healey&rsquo;s intense technique demands heavy strings &ndash; 11s to 56s &ndash; and he tunes them to E standard, but also to drop-D, -C, -B and even drop-A. His go-to guitar is a &lsquo;TV-white&rsquo; 1960s double-cut Gibson Les Paul Special, armed with a Bare Knuckle Warpig at the bridge. Healey &ndash; a guitar repairman by day &ndash; has modified this and all his other instruments: &ldquo;I rewire them so the signal goes from bridge pickup to volume to jack. With the simplest wiring you get the most out of the pickup as there&rsquo;s nothing in the way. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m going for simplicity,&rdquo; he adds. &ldquo;If I make a mistake live, no one is there to back me up. If anything goes wrong, everything stops. It&rsquo;s like we&rsquo;re playing for our lives most nights.&rdquo;

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