Undead Guitars rise from the ashes of Red Guitars

We are four founding members of Red Guitars, Hallam Lewis, John Rowley, Lou Duffy-Howard, and Matt Higgins and we are now called ‘Undead Guitars‘ 🎸🔥

We are currently working under our new name because one of our former singers, Jerry Kidd has trade marked the name ‘Red Guitars’ in his name only.

We clearly have equitable rights to the band name Red Guitars, but when we parted ways with Kidd in 2024, he registered it as a trade mark in his own name. Last December, when the four of us remaining Red Guitars released our single ‘Ho Ho Hum’ to raise funds for two refugee charities he used his registration to get our Bandcamp page suspended, and to prevent us releasing the single on other digital outlets. We challenged his registration with the Intellectual Property Office to the point of a tribunal case, and although we clearly have a good case, we have better things to do at the moment than to continue a protracted legal argument in a toxic situation. Life is too good and too short. 

We have not given up being able to use the name Red Guitars in the future but for now we are having a great time together recording and preparing for more gigs. And we are delighted to be ‘Undead Guitars’ to release our upcoming new single and video ‘Blazing Zombies’ in October.