Red Guitars – Good Technology

In the early days Lou was the bassist in Red Guitars. First single Good Technology was championed by the late, great John Peel who played it on Radio One. It made number 1 in the Indie chart and number 11 in his Festive Fifty. We reformed for a UK tour in 2022!

Red Guitars photograph by Richard Duffy-Howard

“Thanks to everyone who came to the our Slow to Face reunion tour 2022. We had a brilliant time and were blown away by the response. Looking forward to what comes next!”

Visit our new Red Guitars website here: https://red-guitars.com/

Have a look at the photos and comments from the tour here:

Leeds Old Woollen April 19th 2022 https://loudhailer.net/2022/04/20/red-guitars-at-leeds-old-woollen-2022/

Manchester Night & Day Cafe April 21st https://loudhailer.net/2022/04/26/red-guitars-at-manchester-night-day-2022/

Glasgow Garage April 22nd https://loudhailer.net/2022/04/25/red-guitars-glasgow-garage-2022/

Hull Adelphi April 23rd https://loudhailer.net/2022/04/24/red-guitars-at-hull-adelphi-club-2022/

Brighton Green Door Store April 28th https://loudhailer.net/2022/05/03/red-guitars-at-brighton-green-door-store-2022/

London 100 Club April 29th https://loudhailer.net/2022/05/02/red-guitars-at-the-100-club-2022/

Birmingham O2 Institute April 30th https://loudhailer.net/2022/05/04/red-guitars-at-birmingham-o2-institute-2022/

Back then: Two albums, a handful of Peel sessions and top ten Indie hits later they had toured with The Smiths, appeared on The Tube, The Old Grey Whistle Test, Oxford Road Show, John Peel’s Sounds of the Suburbs and a bunch of of European TV shows. They were fiercely independent, played hundreds of gigs and eventually went out to dinner with Richard Branson, and signed to Virgin Records … you can still visit them on the Red Guitars Website here and on the Red Guitars Facebook page here.

Click here to read Tim Naylor’s excellent Red Guitars feature in Record Collector Magazine.

Good Technology – In the words of Paul Du Noyer in the NME on 27/08/83

Via one delicious melody and an ominously building beat, Red Guitars itemise the sundry achievements of modern science, from underarm personal hygiene to the hardware of instant Armageddon. In so doing, the song constructs an unforgettable vision of a world that’s grown too clever by one-and-a-half at least.