Ashley John Naylor (born 1970) is an Australian musician, best known for his guitar and vocals in
Melbourne
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-based band
Even
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In 1987 at the age of 17, Naylor played guitar in Melbourne
indie rock
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band
The Swarm, whose bassist Tim Aylward was best known as guitarist for
Mr Floppy
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between 1989 and 1994. He occasionally played guitar with Melbourne band
Pray TV on studio recordings and also live. In 1994 he formed Even with Matthew Cotter, whom he had played with in Swarm, and bass player Wally Kempton of
The Meanies.
In 1995, Naylor was playing with both Even and
Fragment,
who later changed their name to
Rail
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a group fronted by Naylor's songwriting friend
Danny Vertessy, turning his main focus to Even by 1998.
In 1999 Naylor created another side band,
The Grapes, with singer
Sherry Rich
Sherry Rich or Sherry Rich-Plant (born Lismore) is an Australian alternative country singer-songwriter, guitarist and music teacher. As Sherry Valier, she formed an all-girl garage rock band, Girl Monstar (1988–93), on lead vocals, harmonica ...
.
In 1999 he contributed guitar to
Stephen Cummings
Stephen Donald Cummings (born 13 September 1954) is an Australian rock singer and songwriter. He was the lead singer of Melbourne-based rock band the Sports from 1976 to 1981, followed by a solo career which has met with critical acclaim but ha ...
' ''Spiritual Burn'' album.
He also played with the
Countdown Spectacular
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's house band. In 2006, together with
Cameron Bruce
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, he joined
Paul Kelly's touring band, replacing
Dan Luscombe
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, who left to join
The Drones.
Naylor released his debut solo album, ''Four Track Mind'', in 2004 on El Reno Records, later released in September 2006 in the USA on Elephant Stone Records. He also plays guitar in a band with Spiderbait drummer-vocalist
Kram, in
The Ronson Hangup
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and in the Manta Trio. Naylor released his second solo album ''High Horse'' in November 2011 on El Reno Music. In 2016 Naylor joined
The Stems
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.
In 2015 and 2016 he was guitarist for the RocKwiz 'Orkestra', the house band for the TV music trivia quiz
RocKwiz. Naylor is of no relation to fellow Australian music guitar legend Tony Naylor
In February 2020 Naylor joined Australian band
The Church.
Discography
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Australian guitarists
Living people
1970 births
21st-century guitarists