The scuba guitar photos were taken off India’s Andaman Islands. I’d gone for the nature and ended up working for Benny and Lynda, throwing parties under the stars.

I thought I’d combine two things that I love.

Vandit Kalia is the founder of Dive India, the original dive operator on Havelock. He’s also a wildlife photographer, more likely to have tigers and sharks as his subjects than aquatic musicians. I was expecting him to tell me to catch myself on but he’s a man with imagination.

He’s shooting upwards from the seabed to get the sun coming through behind me. This is known as ‘the halo effect’, apparently. Finally, my true angelic nature revealed.

The images are unprocessed.

As for the sonics of underwater guitar.. Sound travels faster and further in liquid. Whale song reverberates its way around the world. It probably goes without saying though, that guitar strings aren’t able to vibrate in quite the same way in this denser medium. It’s all a bit clangy. There are no plans to get the hydrophones out for the next record.

For those concerned about the welfare of the instrument, I’m afraid to say she buckled and split from the pressure. It happens to the best of us. I’d picked her up cheap in Kolkata. She’d done me proud, but it was the end of the season and she had to be sacrificed. I ceremonially cremated her at the end of my last show. It’s what she would’ve wanted.