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Art-rock is alive and well in the hands of Everything Everything, whose five albums to date have nabbed them a shelfload of awards. Holding down the low end is Jeremy Pritchard, who also toured with the indie band Foals in 2019. In both cases he is required to play major stages, and delivers the low frequencies via some suitably hefty gear, he explains.

What’s your go-to bass rig?

Live, I use an Orange AD200 head and a 8x10 cab. I’ve been using those for a couple of years. At first, I didn’t expect to take to it in the way that I have done, because in my head, I associated it with a vintage sound. What I really appreciate about it, though, is how simple it is and how high-quality the components are. The controls are just bass, mid, treble, gain.

Presumably it gives you a warm, fuzzy Seventies tone when you want one.

It does do that,

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