Gav is an accomplished electric and accoustic guitarist with 12 years experience playing live in various bands in and around Edinburgh.
Styles include blues, rock, slide, fingerstyle, folk, flat picking, chicken picking, and most importantly how to be your own guitarist in your own style.
Originally from Thankerton, South Lanarkshire, Gav started playing when someone lent him a guitar and a Rage Against the Machine book at the age of twelve.
He went on to form the rock band Sheva and has since played with the Keith Dickson Accordian Orchestra, Arbory, The Gav and Paul accoustic blues/ethnic/weird duo and for the last three years, rockin' blues outfit - Missing Cat.
His career has been most influenced by BB King, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Robert Johnson, Jimi Hendrix, Davy Graham, Slash, Ben Harper, Blues Brothers, Aerosmith, Queens of the Stone Age, Hamish Imlach, Simon & Garfunkel, The Band, Elmore James, Do Me Bad Things, Foo Fighters and many more.