Brighton Guitar Show: Launching Northstage
After years of late nights, scorched fingers, notebooks full of scribbles, and the quiet hum of valve heaters in the workshop, I’m finally putting Northstage out into the world. On 18 July, I’ll be exhibiting at the Brighton Guitar Show, held at Brighton Racecourse from 10am to 4pm. This will be the first public outing for Northstage as a brand, and the first time some of my most personal builds have been available to play, hear, and experience in person.
(https://www.brightonguitarshow.co.uk/)
A long road to a public debut
Northstage didn’t begin as a business plan or a brand exercise. Like many builders, it started with curiosity — opening up old amps, tracing layouts, asking why certain circuits feel alive while others don’t. That curiosity slowly became obsession, and the obsession became discipline. Each project taught me something: about tone, about compromises, about patience, and about my own tastes. For a long time, these builds lived quietly in the background — made for myself, for friends, or simply because an idea wouldn’t leave me alone. Bringing them into the public eye feels both exciting and strangely vulnerable. These amps and pedals represent not just sounds, but years of learning and refinement, and Brighton feels like the right place to finally share that.