The Who's manager Bill Curbishley, The Fall's Brix Smith Start and Razorlight frontman Johnny Borrell are to take part in a panel discussing the electric guitar's impact on popular culture.
The event is being held to mark rock'n'roll experience Seven Decades' opening night at the V&A. Co-created by Phillip Hylander and Michael John Ross, it weaves together live music, documentary, and rare vintage guitars to tell the story of the guitar's revolutionary impact on the world.
Taking place on January 11, the panel will also feature Kevin Brennan MP shadow hinister for heritage & arts and guitarist for parliamentary band MP4. The Times' Will Hodgkinson will host the panel.
Tickets for opening night with the panel sold out just hours after going on sale but matinee shows and Saturday evening and Sunday evening tickets are available for Seven Decades.
London-based actor Alex Walton stars as the narrator taking a sound engineer’s role for these V&A shows.
Hylander said: “Alex came to our attention at the Edinburgh festival in 2017 when he played all nine characters in an amazing one man show about a David Bowie obsessive called ‘From Ibiza to the Norfolk broads’. We’re very excited about bringing the Seven Decades show to the V&A in January 2019 with our specially commissioned version of our live show.
"Set in an old recording studio, with the story told by a sound engineer in a virtual control room, this show is going to be our most exciting and innovative, and will bring you closer than ever to the action, and these amazing guitars."
