Rob Chapman has just announced an amazing competition to WIN an endorsement with Chapman Guitars, here’s the official blurb:

Chapman Guitars is a growing guitar company founded by YouTube guitarist & educator Rob Chapman. It is based on the principle of having Rob’s fans collaboratively design guitar models with him through a series of polls conducted on the Chapman Guitars website.

To celebrate two years of running, culminating in over 30,000 subscribers on YouTube, Rob is launching a competition that is open to anybody, of any age, anywhere in the world. The winner of the competition will receive a full endorsement with Chapman Guitars; a one-off SveeArt custom Chapman Guitars ML-1 “Heart of Fire”; a Chapman Guitars ML-2 Standard and a bag of Chapman Guitars accessories (including picks, strings and a hand-made leather strap).

In order to help Rob find the best of the best, he has turned to two of his friends and top producers in the industry: Eddie Kramer and Misha Mansoor. Rather than judge solely on guitar prowess, Rob, Eddie and Misha will be judging the competition together, looking for guitarists with passion and personality in their performance.

The competition launches on September the 2nd, and will run for two months. For details on how to enter, watch the video hosted on Rob’s YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/robchappers

The backing track for this competition is available from here:

http://www.guitarplayback.com/happy-satch-mood

Many thanks to Svee at http://www.sveeart.com for his amazing work on the Chapman Guitars ML-1 “Heart of Fire”

Good luck!

Rob Chapman, Eddie Kramer, Misha Mansoor and the Chapman Guitars team

All 4 video blog videos of this year’s Monkeyfest have been uploaded!

Captures the great vibe of this year’s festival as well as a glimpse at the sheer amount of talent, notes and general mayhem

Footage of Rob Chapman, Godsized, Lyle Watt, Sam Coulson, Alex Hutchings, Jess Lewis, Andy James, Mike Dawes and Amy Turk, Laurie Monk, Emir Hot, Fred Brum, Sacred Mother Tongue and a little interview with a knackered looking me

(No footage of Guthrie Govan and The Fellowship, currently, as they didn’t want video uploaded)

Been meaning to write up a post about Monkeyfest but til then here’s some blog video from the Monkeylord himself about the great event:

Only ten days left until the mighty Monkeyfest 2011 begins with performance and workshops from the likes of Guthrie Govan, Andy James, Alex Hutchings, Godsized, Haken, Rob Chapman, Lyle Watt, Jess Lewis and many many more including myself .

Sponsors include Marshall Amplification, Blackstar Amplification, D’Addario and Andertons Music with great giveaways and freebies for all who attend.

Tickets will not be available on the door so if you are thinking of going time is running out to get your tickets!