Cam Deas will play @ Incubate in the Pauluschurch Saturday 19th of September.

On the Foxy Digitalis blog they posted a nice interview with this English guitar virtuoso.

How long have you been playing/writing songs?

I was playing classical guitar for years while I was at school as well as being in a band for a few years, but I think when I was about 16 I started writing some solo electric guitar pieces; basically all experiments with delays and playing around with manipulating guitar recordings on computers.

I bought my first steel string acoustic guitar when I was 18, though before that I had strung up an old classical guitar I was given with steel strings; the strings were about an inch off the fretboard; you had to use all the strength in your fingers to hold down just one note, so it basically forced you to play in open tunings!

What got you into experimental music? Did you have any musical influences that helped you get to this point?

Around the same time I started writing those solo guitar pieces I was listening to Sonic Youth, The Fall and Animal Collective a lot and discovering some of those bigger noise groups like Wolf Eyes, I guess I have my sister to owe for the introductions to these groups. I also found John Fahey around the same time, but I must admit, I didn’t click with it straight away… Apart from one piece; I Am The Ressurection from The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death, I loved that part where it all comes together towards the end.

Read the whole interview here.