17 Facts About Ryan Jarman

Ryan James Jarman is a British musician who is the guitarist and one of the vocalists of the indie rock band The Cribs.

Ryan Jarman is known primarily for his repetitive, high pitched and catchy guitar riffs.

Ryan Jarman is one of the best guitarists to come out of British pop culture.

Up until the Cribs' third album, Ryan Jarman played Fender Mustang guitars.

Ryan Jarman discovered the Gibson ES-335 in recording Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever, and took to using it almost exclusively live afterwards.

Ryan Jarman now uses a Squier Venus for his Cribs work, and an Epiphone Coronet for his side project.

Ryan Jarman has been seen using a vintage Mosrite Ventures, and a Pawn Shop series Fender Mustang in 'Lake Placid' blue as well as a Sonic Blue Fender Mustang with a black hotrails pickup.

Ryan Jarman has been quoted as saying that, out of habit, he runs both an AD30 combo and head at the same time with the combo on top of an Orange cabinet and the head hidden out of view.

Primarily using just distortion, Ryan Jarman has however recently started using an Electro Harmonix Poly-Chorus regularly both live and in the studio.

From Springtime Studios, which Ryan Jarman set up with his brothers in Wakefield in 2002, he engineered and worked with various local bands as well as numerous records for Leeds-based noise label Squirrel Records.

At the 2006 NME Awards, Ryan Jarman was seriously injured when he collected an award on behalf of Franz Ferdinand.

Ryan Jarman spent 4 hours in hospital receiving 15 stitches before returning to party at the awards.

Ryan Jarman subsequently went missing and was found slumped in a hallway by Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe.

Ryan Jarman was bleeding profusely and another ambulance was called to return him to hospital.

Ryan Jarman received both external and internal stitches to repair a rip to the membrane around the kidney that the first surgeon had missed.

Ryan Jarman was in a four-year relationship with Kate Nash, however it was announced in 2012 that the pair had split.

In 2015, it was reported that Ryan Jarman had been in a two-year relationship with musician Jennifer Turner.