The Guitar Show 2025 (now with added The Bass Show) March 1st & 2nd, Cranmore Park, B90 4LF

kelpbeds

Great show today. Lots of chatting to lovely folk. I'm on the GuitarBreaks stands. Come and say hi if you are about tomorrow. 

crunchman

dindude said:

Best guitar: the 1955 Tele on the ATB stand for £32k please…..

That had a sold label on it by the end of the day.  Edit: I might be thinking of a different Tele.

I think I preferred the 55 gold top on the ATB stand.

Whoever was asking about the food, there is a food area.  I had Chilli.  There were some other things as well.

I bought a bass on the PJD stand.  (I now need to unload a medium scale 80s E Series Squier P bass if anyone is interested)

Kalimna

So far, a 'Dirt' pedal from Funny Little Boxes. Good chat with several folk, and umming and ahhing over the blue JCM900 at FairDeal. Back for more tomorrow

dindude

Oh and I tried the Crazy Tube Circuits Venus - their take on the BK Butler Tube Driver, and even through headphones into a modeller I could tell it’s very much my sort of thing. Definitely a purchase when they become available. 

digitalscream

Definitely nice to meet folk today - if a bit exhausting. You'll all be glad to know that, after my complete fuck up in taking the wrong posters and having a very bare stand, I abandoned the hotel and came home to get the actual posters and tomorrow's stand will be much more in keeping with the event

gatheredinsong

Wish I could go, but I put a fair bit of cash into a deal with a forum member a couple weeks ago. Sounds like a great event. 

TimmyO

Heading up to Brum shortly - looking forward to it 

Rowby1

Good show! Just got home. 

Not spent any money (phew!) but very tempted by the Longbottom Guitars blue LP Junior!

crunchman

Rowby1 said:

Good show! Just got home. 

Not spent any money (phew!) but very tempted by the Longbottom Guitars blue LP Junior!

Had a play on that yesterday. Very nice.

TimmyO

Rowby1 said:

Good show! Just got home. 

Not spent any money (phew!) but very tempted by the Longbottom Guitars blue LP Junior!

Their guitars are brilliant - very impressed - the 2 P90 one my lad tried was almost unputdownable 

Kalimna

Heading back to Scotland. An excellent show. Dirt and Lehle ABY pedals bought. Sorely tempted by the blue Eggle, and good catch up with Noisy Hammer amongst others.
Long wait till '26!

chor808

Excellent show, six hours and never got bored. Ended up with another jet guitar, a fretboard pedal board and a black star audio interface.

sweepy

Disappointed tbh, quite a few companies not represented and some frankly ridiculous practices by Origin especially, new product and absolutely NO items to buy on the day, . Whoever organised the car parking staff needs to get them trained, was there just after 9:30 and the main car park was virtually empty, told I couldn’t park there and had to go directly to the overflow and yet some people were allowed straight in. baffling is an understatement . The only highlight tbh was catching up with old mates and talking general bollocks, think that might be my last Brum show tbh 

TimmyO

Great day for me and my teen son. 

He was VERY taken both with a Reverend Double Agent (in the new pale blue fade) and a Yamaha Revstar Standard P90. I suspect all his savings (and a bit of mine) will be going on one of those.

We also liked some of the pricier Gordon Smiths - very impressive.

Longbottom - amazing British (Yorkshire) electrics

Yamaha Pofessionals (particularly the Revstar) are soooo good. The neck profile and fretwork is the first thing that’s impressed me the way EBMM do for that. 

The Marshall DSL40 my son used to demo the GSs impressed. 

I bought some sets of D’Addario XS electric strings to try.

And I got a MXR black “coily cable of good lovin’ “

mudslide73

Really enjoyed it, probably my favourite edition of the show. Had some great chats on the Zilla, Hiscox and Gordon Smith stands and had a proper play on some Audens for the first time. Bumped into Mick of TPS and then enjoyed their appearance on the live stage. We stayed from 11am until 5pm - a lot of stuff to see and try. Great stuff.

fastonebaz

Really enjoyed it today.  The separate bass room was excellent idea.   Parking was great i turned up at 11 and was practically hand guided to a space. 

Maybe include some more clothing,  things like wrist bands,  more modern metal band t shirts, posters etc,  not directly guitars but make good low budget gift items for folk. 

rsvmark

Good show today imho. Good to catch up with @ThorpyFX and @IvisonGuitars and meet a few folks. it seemed less crowded this year- I hope that means decent tix sales. Better parking, and better queues for coffee. Nice mix of stands and in particular the smaller scale uk businesses. Highlight for me was the Zemaitis guitars- never seen these up close before and gassing hard for one of those. Second up was meeting Mikey from Redbeard and his new obnoxious fuzz thing- sadly I can’t use one but it was nasty. In third place was Ivison stuff- just love these. 

I can’t think of many better ways of spending a Sunday. 

digitalscream

Just got home and (slightly) recovered - fantastic meeting everybody this weekend, and thanks to @Jason for yet another great show. Exhausting, but worth it

While it appears we had exactly the right number of pedalboard kits (only a couple left, like last year), it seems that I badly underestimated the demand for the neck rests...we sold out by lunchtime on the Saturday! I figured that their popularity last year was just because they were free for members, but...well, apparently not. My wife has now decided that she's in charge of stock levels next year.

CountryDave

Lots to see and try as always.
Had a minute or so with the Korina Dakota One on @IvisonGuitars stand that had me gassing hard and pondering any number of potential explanations to the management on my return home.
In the end I came away with an Orange Terror Stamp (to go in the gig bag as an emergency backup) and a Blackstar Fly for my son.   
Roll on next year.

uncledick

Spent a few hours there today but didn't even buy a coffee!  Couldn't get into the live stage room but sounded like some decent acts listening from the corridor.  No doubt that pedals and boards are still incredibly popular despite the plethora of digital options.  Good to see the Fretboard stand with a permanent crowd.
Overall, I'd be interested to hear how well the vendors got on.  I didn't see a lot of money being spent - these are difficult times for a lot of people.
Bristol next month - always some obscure stuff there, and it's half the journey time