Hertfordshire-based Seb Wesson’s new Man From The Moon album is his first full-length solo release, following his 2017 Tigers EP. Cutting his teeth in indie-rock band Munkster, Wesson started playing solo and session music after the group’s demise, as well as providing lead guitar licks for alternative-rock outfit Captain. It’s a busy musical life, and there’s really one man to thank.
“I started playing when I was seven or eight and I was really into Queen,” Wesson begins. “I had their greatest hits on vinyl and cassette, and I was a Brian May obsessive. I had the Star Licks video and had learned it all by the time I was 14.
” Moving Forward When listening to Wesson’s solo music now, the Queen link seems surprising. “I got into songwriting, so the incredibly bombastic lead rock guitar first got me hooked and then I got into songwriters,” he explains. “Dire Straits followed Queen – Mark Knopfler was another big influence – then there was James Taylor, Damien Rice, and Elliott Smith.
I got into appreciating well-written songs and began attempting to do similar things. “I wrote a bit in the band [Munkster], but it was more of a four-way thing and lyrics were more of a collaborative effort in a way. So after that I started trying to get good at writing songs as a one-man setup.
” Creative Flow After Munkster split, Wesson kept busy playing in a function band, writing some solo songs, and also working with R&B singer Lemar, with whom he toured and mad.
