ADAM JOHNSTONE + FERGUS SINCLAIR
HAILS FROM NAARM/MELBOURNE, VIC
PLAYS IN ROMERO
SOUNDS LIKEPOST-2AM PUNK BAR ANTHEMS
LATEST DROP TURN IT ON! (LP OUT NOW VIA COOL DEATH / FEEL IT / EMI)
What’s your current go-to guitar?
Johnstone: My current go-to is my American Fender Jazzmaster AVRI ‘62. I’d played a couple of friends’ Jazzmasters in the studio and they always felt so smooth to me, plus I’d always loved that Jazzmaster tone. Previously I’d been playing a Fender Jaguar, which I also still love very much. When some friends pulled together to get me a new guitar for a birthday, I knew exactly what I was going for, and it’s been the guitar I pick up first ever since.
How did you initially fall in love with the instrument?
As an impressionable and curious grommet, there was absolutely nothing cooler than playing the axe. I fell in with a group of British invasion fanatics at school, and we would all obsess over both classic and modern UK indie bands like Joy Division, The Smiths and The Buzzcocks. I remember being totally blown away by the brooding melodicism and darker type of feel these bands had, and I spent many years trying to hone my own craft and feel. After fingerpicking my way into the abyss, using a classic guitar that was gifted to me at age five, my 18th birthday came with the promise of an upgrade. No word of a lie, there was a song that had a repeated vocal refrain
