BEN SPEIGHT
HAILS FROM BRISBANE, QLD
PLAYS IN FUTURE HAUNTS
SOUNDS LIKE SOARING INDIE-ROCK WITH A BRITPOP FLAIR
LATEST DROP I CAN’T CHANGE THE WAY YOU CHANGE
(EP OUT NOW INDEPENDENTLY)
What’s your current go-to guitar?
Japanese Fender Jazzmaster. I’ll admit I saw Tom playing Jazzmasters in his other band Good Boy and just loved the look and sound so got myself one – haven’t looked back. It’s a modern one but it just plays so well and stays in shape easily, every other Jazzmaster I’ve picked up just doesn’t feel right to me. It’s got a really thin neck, I’ve replaced the pickups with Lollars (JM neck, P-90 bridge) and it just goes hard.
How did you initially fall in love with the instrument?
I absolutely hated guitar when I first was forced to learn it through primary school – I think there was a really bad teacher who just couldn’t deal well with kids at all! But I picked it up again in high school because sport really wasn’t my thing, learnt on my Dad’s old acoustic and just kept begging for an electric. Finally the old man caved and took me round to about 50 shops in Brissy to get one – it was some type of Ibanez, back then they were running hot in the entry level market and there wasn’t too much else around that looked good to me. I don’t actually have it any more come to think of it, pretty
