John Cummings is a Scottish

Scottish people

The Scottish people , or Scots, are a nation and ethnic group native to Scotland. Historically they emerged from an amalgamation of the Picts and Gaels, incorporating neighbouring Britons to the south as well as invading Germanic peoples such as the Anglo-Saxons and the Norse.In modern use,...

 musician

Musician

A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....

 and record producer

Record producer

A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

, best known for being a member of Glaswegian band Mogwai

Mogwai

The word mogwai is the transliteration of the Cantonese word 魔怪 meaning "monster", "evil spirit", "devil" or "demon".-Mogwai/Mogui in Chinese culture:...

, mostly playing guitar

Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...

, as well as programming, keyboards and vocals

Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

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Mogwai

After forming and playing a few gigs in 1995 as a three-piece

Power trio

A power trio is a rock and roll band format where the traditional power trio has a lineup of guitar, bass and drums, leaving out the rhythm guitar or keyboard that are used in other rock music to fill out the sound with chords...

, Mogwai enlisted John Cummings on guitar. Though he mostly contributes guitar to the band, Cummings has also sung on the song "Boring Machines Disturbs Sleep", from 2003's Happy Songs for Happy People

Happy Songs for Happy People

Happy Songs for Happy People is the fourth full-length studio album by Mogwai. It represents a further evolution of Mogwai's toned down, more electronic sound. The songs on the album are subdued, with the only exceptions being the towering "Ratts of the Capital," and cacophonous closer "Stop...

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The Reindeer Section

Cummings was briefly a member of indie rock

Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...

 supergroup

Supergroup (music)

In the late 1960s, the term supergroup was coined to describe "a rock music group whose performers are already famous from having performed individually or in other groups"....

, The Reindeer Section

The Reindeer Section

The Reindeer Section are a Scottish indie rock supergroup formed in 2001 by Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol, which released albums and gigged in 2001 and 2002. The Reindeer Section grouping was somewhat ad hoc, and so it is uncertain if more will be heard from them...

, contributing guitar to the first album.

Other

Cummings produced Part Chimp's

Part Chimp

Part Chimp is a band from Camberwell in London that were formed by Tim Cedar, Jon Hamilton and Nick Prior in 2000. Current line-up is Tim , Jon , Joe McLaughlin and Iain Hinchliffe ....

 albums Chart Pimp and I Am Come, the Errors EP How Clean is your Acid House?, The Magnificents

The Magnificents (Scottish band)

-Biography:The group formed while its members attended the Edinburgh College of Art. After playing a supposed one off gig of Northern Soul covers for a friend's birthday party they began to write their own material and settled into a lineup of Tommy Stuart , Steven McGregor , Drew McFadyen and...

 album Year of Explorers

Year Of Explorers

Year of Explorers is the second studio album by the Scottish electro rock band The Magnificents.-Track listing:All tracks written by The Magnificents.# "Ring Ring Oo Oo" – 4:57# "Can't Explode" – 3:11# "Get It Boy" – 3:22...

, Trout's Norma Jean EP and Street Horrrsing

Street Horrrsing

Street Horrrsing is the debut album by the English experimental band Fuck Buttons, released on . It was produced by Mogwai guitarist John Cummings...

by Fuck Buttons

Fuck Buttons

Fuck Buttons are a two-piece electronic group formed in Bristol in 2004 by Andrew Hung and Benjamin John Power.-Biography:Hung and Power grew up in Worcester. Hung was influenced by Aphex Twin, while Power was a fan of Mogwai. They developed a friendship in 2004 while attending art school in...

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He also contributed guitar to The Zephyrs

The Zephyrs

The Zephyrs is an Edinburgh, Scotland-based indie band. They have released five albums and two EPs containing their shoegazing folk-rock style.-Band history:...

' 2004 album, A Year to the Day.

Equipment

Throughout his time in Mogwai, Cummings has mainly used various models of the Fender Telecaster Custom and Gibson SG, often using irregular tunings.

Effects pedals

• Boss OS-2 Overdrive/Distortion (2)
• Boss ODB-3 Bass Overdrive
• Boss TR-2 Tremolo
• Boss TU-2 Chromatic Tuner
• Electro-Harmonix HOG (2)
• Electro-Harmonix Holy Stain
• Electro-Harmonix Stereo Memory Man With Hazarai
• Jim Dunlop Uni-Vibe
• MXR Carbon Copy Delay
• MXR Kerry King 10 Band EQ (2)
• T-Rex Dr Swamp Distortion/Overdrive