Toting a hot new album and smashing stages worldwide, Aussie axeman
Gwyn Ashton has reinvented himself as a one-man progressive alt. blues
band and is now on his current solo elektro tour.

In two hours Ashton takes us on an eclectic mesmerising musical
journey of his own original material plus some choice covers; from
acoustic roots, blues and world music to a set of electric hard-edged
rockin’ blues, 60s-style fuzz garage rock and Brit-voiced psychedelia
on an array of instruments, including his custom-made Italian Liutart
signature model guitar.

With no backing tracks or setlist Ashton spontaneously draws his set
mostly from eight released studio albums. His lyrical songwriting and
musical dexterity on resonator and lap slide guitars mixed with
frenetic electric slide, heavy bass lines, hardcore kick drum beats
and lo-fi microphone vocals makes him one of the most unique
contemporary artists on the scene today.

He’s been ranked at number 3 in Guitar Part magazine’s Guitarist of
The Year after Jeff Beck and Gary Moore and praised by the likes of
Robert Plant, Johnny Winter and Deep Purple’s Don Airey, who has
played on two of Ashton’s albums. Hubert Sumlin, Canned Heat, Walter
Trout and Mick Fleetwood have all invited him to play with them
onstage.

He’s opened for BB King, Status Quo, Mick Taylor, Buddy Guy, Rory
Gallagher, Ray Charles, Junior Wells and many others and appears at
festivals and clubs in the UK, Brazil, Malta, Australia and all over
Europe.

Ashton has recorded with: Kim Wilson, Robbie Blunt, Chris Glen, Ted
McKenna, Don Airey (Deep Purple, Whitesnake, Rainbow) and Gerry McAvoy
& Brendan O’Neill (Rory Gallagher). Ashton replaced Thin
Lizzy/Motörhead guitarist Brian Robertson fronting Band of Friends - a
celebration of the music of Rory Gallagher, featuring his former band
members Gerry, Brendan, Lou Martin and Mark Feltham. He has also
opened for Peter Green, Johnny Winter, Robin Trower, Jeff Healey, The
Yardbirds, Magnum, Ten Years After, Dr Feelgood and many others.