What are the tech gadgets that have made your day to day life just a little bit easier?

Anything that acts as a medium to get you onto the Internet. It’s the easiest way to gather and send info for gigs and stuff. Telephones without wires haven’t been a bad invention either.

If you could have one gadget to make your life easier what would it be?

At the moment I’d have to say a wireless pack for my guitar. Those damn leads just keep on breaking. Oh, and in-ear monitors.

Do you still think there’s a place for analogue music like vinyl and tape?

Most definitely in the recording process. Maybe not in the traditional ways – but even though I think the technological advancements in the recording process of music have been amazing, every (good) recording engineer strives to get the original sounds that got produced all those years ago. Even though everybody now records on a computer on a fancy program with lots of plug-ins and the like, they still run the signal through a analogue tube pre-amp to get that warm sound that all the technology in the world can’t give you (yet?). Same thing happens when the album gets mastered. There are some programs that are getting close these days, but I think it might still be a while before technology catches up with this.

What was the last big tech purchase you made?

Does a new guitar count? A 50th Anniversary Fender Stratocaster. Musical equipment is pretty much the only thing I have cash for these days. I’ve got some new pedals I’m eyeing. Also, a HDTV – but there’s no dollar for that at the moment!

What are some gadgets you just couldn’t live without?

Besides the obvious music stuff, I’d have to say a decent cellphone. When you’re on the road a good one is an absolute necessity.

 What is your all-time favourite website?

http://unlimited.orange.co.uk/flash/go

Has technology made life easier or more difficult?

Definitely easier. I remember those days as a kid when your friend’s party was over and you had to ask his folks if you could please phone your folks – and then they watching the rugby or drinking in the bar and can’t hear the phone. By the time they do hear the phone you’ve finished all the sweets and cake and you throw up when you get home.

So what kind of tech gadgets do you have then?

iPod, iMac G5, Nokia N73, PS2, this really cool little speaker that runs off my iPod for my car cause one night after a show I fell on the face of my car stereo, Russell Hobbs Panini toaster, we just got a really amazing steamer for our house as well and a remote control that opens the garage AND switches the alarm on and off – As you can realise, I’m pretty old school. Or is that just because music doesn’t pay that well yet?

Do you devotedly buy the latest thing from Apple, even if you don’t know what you’ll do with it?

I would buy all of it if I could.

Have you become a zombie on the road that slavishly obeys GPS commands?

GPS’s are for girls.

Are you worried that robots will eventually become smarter than human beings and we will all have to submit to our robot-overlords?

I sincerely hope not. That will be the saddest thing for mankind.

If they could make phones unbreakable, would you need one, or can you keep a phone for longer than a year (in one piece of course)?

I can generally keep a phone for longer than a year. My little brother on the other hand needs one made from Titanium or something cause he breaks them left right and centre.