About Brendan McLaughlin

Brendan McLaughlin playing with Acca Dacca at Brisbane Woodstock Festival 2004
After playing numerous other instruments such as the trumpet, sax and drums, Brendan finally met the guitar at the age of 17. It was in a school rock group class that Brendan was playing the drums and met a guy called Robert Stanley, one of if not the best guitarists in school at the time. Rob and Brendan were playing Am I Evil by Metallica and saw Rob do this amazing solo. Brendan stopped and said to himself, "I have got to learn how to do THAT!. That looks Awesome!" That afternoon, Brendan gave up the drums to learn the guitar. Three months later he was teaching others how to play licks and riffs. His favourite at the time was the intro to Dont Call Me Dude by Scatterbrain.

Gig with MunkyC, The Living Room Brisbane

After playing and hosting at many jam nights such as Pot Belly Bar Jam Night and R&Bs blues jam at Pendos pool room thanks to his old history teacher he decided to move north to Brisbane, Queensland Australia/
Brendan played with Acdc tribute band Acca Dacca and toured relentlessly with the show around Australia and New Zealand. Leaving the show to pursue his own interests he joined QUILL an 80s metal tribute band playing lead guitar.

Years on down the track after being introduced to the music of players such as, Joe Satriani, Alex Skolnick, Testament, Dream Theater, Steve Vai and the like, Brendan began to develop his own style.

His influences give him a broard range of feel and style to his original works. Having a love for larger than life sounding music like classical music and modern bands like Metallica and Iron Maiden with their harmonised guitar sounds provides Brendan with the influence for his large fat sounding style.

Gig with Quill, Albany Creek Hotel, 2006

Seventeen years on, Brendans' own brand of instrumental rock guitar music is his own style. Smooth and tasteful melodies, burning guitar solos, thick emotive harmonies that add a new dimension to the music and raw rock feel with a full bodied fat melodic rhythm section, provides Brendan with his unique sound that he can call his own.

In his spare time Brendan enjoys playing online games with friends and spending time with his lovely girlfriend.
Brendan, by day, is a professional software analyst/programmer.

Gig with MunkyC, The Living Room Brisbane



To listen to some of Brendan's work, you can goto http://www.myspace.com/brendanmclaughlin or follow this link to Brendans music downloads page

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