“By the end of it, I struggled a bit. I wasn’t able to be 100% myself playing, because I had to honor the gig, which I did”: Fusion virtuoso Alex Hutchings recalls the pressures of following in Guthrie Govan’s footsteps as Steven Wilson’s guitarist

Steven Wilson and Alex Hutchings perform at L'Olympia on March 12, 2018 in Paris, France.

Alex Hutchings may have recently made the news for being one of the guitar players whose work was stolen by Giacomo Turra, but the versatile electric guitar virtuoso has been carving out an illustrious career over the past two decades or so. He has ample teaching and performance experience around the globe, has written for the BBC in the UK, and even toured with a certain prog maestro.

“[The Steven Wilson] gig, obviously, Guthrie [Govan, from The Aristocrats] did it for a bunch of years... Even with that one, it was a consideration [to take the gig],” Hutchings tells Andertons Music.