9-42 meets Nick Beggs - 9-42

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12th Aug 2025

9-42 meets Nick Beggs

The one where Ant just happened to be in the same spot as Bassist Nick Beggs.

In so many ways Nick is an enigma. Even if it were possible to pin him down to a simple description or single genre, just the very act of trying would be to rob him of his quintessential essence. After all he is the link between Kajagoogoo and Steve Hackett, Howard Jones and Fish, and so many others.

He is a maverick and an innovator, wrapped in a blanket of infectious energy and endearing lunacy and we wouldn't want him any other way. Hopefully be the end of this episode you will feel the same.

It's not a normal 9-42 episode, but it's one we are proud to be able to share, and a great way to kick-off this fourth season. It's good to be back.

P.S Since we recorded this Nick and his wife have launched a podcast of their own called North & South

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9-42 is the podcast from the team behind The Guitar Show UK, an annual event held in Birmingham and loved by guitarists young & old. You can keep up with news about the event by visiting the website or by following on your preferred platform Facebook Twitter Instagram

Jason also puts finger to keyboard to produce the Grace Notes newsletter which you can sign up to here

When he isn't faffing about with Jason, Ant also produces other podcasts such as The Corona Diaries with Steve Hogarth of Marillion and his own weekly audio curiosity Therapy For Me. You can keep tabs on Ant by following him on Facebook or by checking out his creator page on Patreon

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About the Podcast

9-42
The Guitar Show Podcast
9-42 is the podcast from the team behind The Guitar Show, the UK's biggest annual guitar event.

I'm Jason, and when I am not co-hosting this podcast I am trying to organise the next Guitar Show. The other co-host is Ant, we've known each other for years and he's the fella that pressured me in to doing this.

Each episode we will endeavour to bring you the stories behind the gear, to talk to the artists, the influencers and the manufacturers that keep us playing and loving the guitar.

About your hosts

Jason Hunt

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Owner of Torn and Frayed Ltd, organiser of The Guitar Show.

A reluctant podcaster, show organiser, lecturer, singer / guitarist

Anthony Short

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I have been tinkering with audio since my mid-teens, recording songs & producing content for friends.

Post university I embraced the world of retail, firstly in supermarkets and later in & around the music instrument industry.

After 20 years or so, I took a sideways step into podcasting and began a venture called ashortstories, which helps in the development & production of podcasts for anyone that has a story to tell.