Swamp stomping rocker with an improbable beard

A long history of playing in other bands led Honkeyfinger to turn his back on collaboration and strike out on his own. "I wanted to be a big ass dinosaur three-piece rock band like Blue Cheer or Cream. The revelation came that I could do it by myself. In my mind, I'm a three-piece band."

His chosen weapon for this solo assault on the world of dumb power rock? The Hawaiian lap steel guitar, an instrument more often associated with tiki lounges and Spongebob Squarepants. In Honkeyfinger's fingers, its sound is heavily distorted, fuzzed up and 'skronked out'. With his stomping drumming, harmonica licks and special effects pedals, he is a one-man dynamo who regularly raises the roof.

"Your body becomes this sort of frenetic whirlwind that's trying to do everything at once and it actually feels quite exhilarating."