Mr Steve Allsworth

Steve has been a professional guitarist and educator for over 20 years. He has published over 200 articles and nearly 1000 transcriptions for the UK’s best selling guitar magazine Total Guitar and its sister magazines Guitar Techniques and Guitar World. Steve has also written for Total Accuracy, RGT and Rockschool. Along the way, Steve has interviewed many of the great gunslingers from Marty Friedman and Joe Satriani to Steve Vai, although the his run-in with the late, great Dimebag Darrell will forever go down in infamy (Dimebag smashed his guitar to pieces mid-interview and hurled it over Steve's head). Steve has also toured with Ronan Keating, Lily Allen and Mica Paris and also had a past life as a sideman with various stints on TV, radio and sessions with the likes of Westlife, LeAnn Rimes, Alicia Keys, Max Gilkes (Lily Allen) Nayo, Kitayah (Andy Gangadeen). Steve has been a passionate music educator for over 20 years, first at the ACM in Guildford, becoming head of guitar at BIMM Brighton in 2004 and later head of live performance at BIMM London in 2014.