Guy Garvey
By the time Guy Garvey joined his guitarist mate Mark Potter’s band, Mr Soft, in 1990, his music-savvy sister, Becky, had already ensured the 16-year-old was schooled in the good stuff – from Genesis’s Selling England By The Pound onwards.
“I have a deep love of prog rock,” says Garvey, who turned 50 in March. “Mark liked more meat-and-potatoes rock back then, AC/DC in particular. He’d come around to my mum’s house, we’d sit in the kitchen and write songs on a guitar. Then one day – I’m still flattered by it – he said, ‘I get my wage this weekend. Can we go into town and will you buy me a record collection?’”
That Saturday the pair trooped around Manchester’s Corn Exchange and Afflecks Palace, sifting what gold they could from the markets’ second-hand music shops.
