Reviews by Artists

Artist Comments

"------ The guitar ( Fylde with Headway HE2/G.FEQ ), is keeping me sane and the sound from the pickup is quite extraordinary. The pianistic virtues of the the instrument is enhanced with the pickup. Sometimes I don't know if I am playing a piano or a guitar. It could be all these pills I am taking but I don't think so. A great instrument shows it's inner self to the player who cares to look. Love You All, Big Jim"

Big Jim Sullivan

"I still love my Headway" - David Celia, Toronto. www.davidcelia.com

Dear John,
I just finished my first tour with a Headway pickup; I just wanted to tell you that the installation was successful and that I am very satisfied how it sounds.
It's clear that the Headway pickup works better than my other stuff, despite the fact that I got sophisticated equipment (Morris guitar equipped with B-Band electronics, some L.R.Baggs pickups with D-TAR preamps etc...), so I plan to replace all electronics on my other guitars with Headway.
It's that timbre of sound; Headway is more balanced than other pickups and I can finally play with whole range dynamics. That's very important, specially if you are classically trained musician, so dynamics is one of key features....
I already gave the Headway logo to a firm where posters for the next tour will be printed, and I recommended to my German promoter to put the Headway logo on posters for concerts there.
Regards, Damir Halilic.
www.halmusicland.com

"Hello John - Just to say thanks for making my lovely little 'Peter' guitar sound just as good out there as it does in here."
   - Billy Mitchell (Lindisfarne)

"Just a line to say thanks very much for the pickup. Malcolm Miles did a good job of fitting it, and the sound is excellent, particularly well balanced across all frequencies, rich and warm."

Graeme Taylor (ex Albion Band, Griffon, Rolf Harris Band, National Theatre)

"I've had your Headway HE2/G.FEQ system which generate LESS FEED BACK. fitted to my Beardsell Guitar and the sound was very good"
   - Steve Gordon (www.stevegordon.ukme.com)

"I've used my first Headway Pickup solidly - on stage and in the studio - for 6 yrs in my 1956 Gibson J45, and it's always sounded fantastic. Now I've upgraded to the HE1/G2.FEQ for more power than early models, and it sounds even better. I've recommended it to my friend John 'Rabbit' Bundrick of The Who, for his Gibson J200."
- Reg Meuross. Hank Wangford Band
/ ex. Panic Brothers

"A few years ago I picked up a tenor guitar and was playing it acoustically. It was practically impossible to mic up with a result I stopped playing it for a few years. Recently I acquired a Headway Pickup system and installed it. I can't believe the difference it has made to my playing. It gives me exactly the sound quality I need and the ability to control that sound precisely. Engineers I work with enthuse wildly about it and I am now playing the tenor guitar at practically every gig because of the Headway Pickup.
When I meet people who ask me about your system I just wish I had cards to give out with your details. My other Headway Pickup is still going great and was one of the first ones you ever made. It's on my Stefan Sobell octave mandola. Please feel free to use my name in any way to endorse your product."
- Ste?f?n Hannigan - www.offspringrecords.co.uk

"Just wanted to say thank you for a splendid pickup. I play guitar and cittern in bands called Crucible and Hekety. I recently commissioned Kai Toenjes to build me a new cittern, to which he fitted a custom under saddle pickup made by yourselves.
"I have to confess I was a bit sceptical about under saddle pickups having had the thin piezo sound in the past, but the amazing natural sound of the Headway blew me away, totally incredible and I'm very pleased. I've tried it D.I'd straight to the desk and through my AER amp, and it just sounds like the instrument either way; I can't imagine anything much better than that."
- Gavin Davenport ('Crucible' and 'Hekerty').

Froggy Bottom Model K

Headway users include:

Ray Davies -:- Bob Dylan -:- Dave Pegg (Fairport Convention/ex. Jethro Tull) -:- Lindisfarne -:- Jez Lowe -:- Alec Finn (De Dannan) -:- M People -:- Uriah Heap -:- Pete Matheson (Ray Davies Band) -:-
 

Martin Alcock (ex. Jethro Tull) -:- Martin Carthy (ex. Steeleye Span) -:- Beth Orton Band -:- Dave Swarbrick (ex. Fairport Convention) -:- Anthony Phillips (ex.Genesis) -:- James Joyce -:-
 

Ralph McTell.-:- Steafan Hannigan -:- Reg Meuross (Hank Wangford/ex. Panic Bros) -:-
 

Paul McGuinness (The Pogues) -:- Eddie Myer ( Turin Brakes ) -:- Jon Boden -:- Steve Smith -:- Mark Knight ( ex Massive Attack / Blue Horses ) -:-

Celtish -:- Sally Barker -:- Mike Peters ( The Alarm ) -:- Martin Stephenson & The Daintees.
 

Ed Boyd (Flook) -:- Troy Donockley (Midge Ure/Maddy Prior Band) -:-
 

Fred (Right Said Fred) -:- Mike Raven -:-
 

Rori McFarlane (Nigel Kennedy Band/ex. Richard Thompson Band) -:- Manus Lunny (Capercaillie) -:-
 

Chopper (The Oyster Band) -:- Davey Steele -:- The Art of Noise -:- Peter Brook-Turner (Ukele Orchestra of Gt. Britain) -:-
 

Lu Edmonds (Billy Bragg/ex.3 Mustaphas 3) -:- Ken Nicol (Albion Band) -:- Peatbog Faeries -:-
 

Tarras -:- Tom Leary & Matt Davies (Little Johnny England) -:- Craob Rua -:- Tony McManus -:- PJ Wright (Steve Gibbons Band) -:- Anam -:-
 

Malcolm Stitt (Boys of the Lough) -:- Kevin Mackenzie -:- Karine Polwart (Malinky/Macalias) -:- Steve Byrne (Deaf Shepherd) -:-
 

Benji Kirkpatrick (Oyster Band Big Band) -:- Andy White -:- The Crockets -:- Martin Waugh (Ronan Keating/Lighthouse Family) -:- John Etheridge -:-
 

Roger Innis (Ruby Turner/Elkie Brooks) -:- Fred Thelonius Baker (Jon Williams band/Nigel Kennedy Band) -:-
 

Mike Silver -:- Deeral (Louise/A1) -:- Afro Celt Sound System -:- John Carty -:- Hugh Burns (Mike Oldfield) -:- Lamb -:-
 

Dove -:- David Surette -:- Robbie Calvo -:- Sid Griffin (ex. The Long Ryders) -:- John Doyle -:- Dave Panting (Rawlin?s Cross) -:-
 

Larry Foley (The Punters) -:- Pamela Morgan (ex. Figgy Duff) -:- Bob Hallett & Alan Doyle (Great Big Sea) -:- Jim Payne -:- Sean Panting -:-
 

Colleen Power -:- Crystal -:- Mike Hanrahan (Irish Decendents) -:- Crush -:- Alboka -:- Fuxan os Ventos -:- Pierre Bensusan -:- Nigel Woodhouse -:- Brendan O?Regan ( Waterboys ) -:-
 

Robin Williamson & Mike Heron (Incredible String Band) -:- Richard Harvey ( John Williams & Friends / ex Griffin ) -:- Peter Knight (Steeleye Span ).
 

Jez Lowe and the Bad Pennies

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?Many thanks for a great guitar sound and a great cittern sound too!? ? Jez Lowe (Jez Lowe and The Bad Pennies).

?Great sound!? ? Dave Pegg (Fairport Convention /ex. Jethro Tull)

?Very impressed? the sound man was ecstatic.? ? Rod Clemments, Lindisfarne.

?I?m very pleased with it.? ? Davey Steele, The Battlefield Band.

?The new system sounds fantastic? ? Chopper of ?The Oyster Band?.

?The Headway is, by the way, fantastic...and was thoroughly tested on Sine?s tour...the sound engineers loved it too.? ? Steafan Hannigan.