Guy Prichard – Lead guitar. Banjo. Harmonica. Vocals.

At a musical fund-raising evening in 1998 at a primary school in Bristol, Guy’s musical antenna began to vibrate on hearing a rendition of the John Prine song 'The Bottomless Lake' sung as a duet by another school parent, David Brown and his 9-year-old son Jack. By the time they had reached the line ”wear clean underwear”, the notion of The Shrinks was born.

Many years before that fateful evening, Guy had made his living as a professional act, singing and playing guitar and harmonica in pubs and clubs around London and the south east, until circumstances forced him to trade the minstrel life for a job that offered more than the price of a bottle of Orvieto Classico, some cigarette papers and a fresh set of narrow gauge strings.

That job has turned out to be one that doesn’t leave Guy with a great deal of spare time, so he doesn’t always manage to make recording sessions. He has however, never missed a Shrinks gig, where his high-lonesome harmonies, Fender b-bender licks and banjo picking skills are essential ingredients in the unique flavour of The Shrinks’ live sound.