Ultrasonic Grand Prix - Instafuzz

The story of Ultrasonic Grand Prix is one of two vintage 60s guitars and their owners. For guitar maestro Barrie Cadogan - of Nottingham Freakbeaters Little Barrie, best known for the main title theme of ‘Better Call Saul’, The The, Liam Gallagher and playing on the soundtrack for Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Elvis’ - it was the Vox Ultrasonic, also from the same period, that caught his eye. “I first became interested in Vox guitars because of people who used them like Spacemen 3 and the James Brown band of the late 60’s”, he explains, “but it was when I was part of a recording session at Anton Newcombe’s studio in Berlin that I had chance to get to know the Vox gear better. I was borrowing an Ultrasonic from a friend for a while and Shawn already had his Grand Prix. I thought it would be a good name for our project whenever we got it going. ’It was with this shared passion for these weapons of vintage, psychedelic gold that the suave, velvety, and off-kilter cool of Instafuzz was born. While a project born of recent times, the flames of Instafuzz were first ignited all the way back in 2010, where the two met during mixing sessions for Little Barrie’s 2011 LP King of the Waves.

Format / LP
Label / Non Delux
Cat No / NONLP011
Genre / Rock & Indie
Release date / 19 January 2024