Graeme Ian Duffin (born 28 February 1956) is a British musician. He has played guitar for the Scottish pop band

Wet Wet Wet Wet Wet Wet are a Scottish soft rock band formed in 1982. They scored a number of hits in the UK charts and around the world in the 1980s and 1990s. They are best known for their 1994 cover of The Troggs' 1960s hit "Love Is All Around", which w ...

since 1983.Graham Duffin
ic 'Wrinkled Weasel', Rock Legacy However he has never officially been a band member, nor has he appeared in band photographs or interviews. The band were suspected of keeping him hidden for image purposes but it may have been Duffin's own choice due to his life-long stammer. He is a Christian. with links to Queens Park Baptist Church Glasgow In an interview with British Stammering Association trustee Eddie Phillips (''Speaking Out'', Autumn 2004, page 3) Duffin describes his experience of stammering severely during a radio interview in which he was attempting to discuss his work with Wet Wet Wet: :"I blocked on every syllable of every word, and they couldn't use the interview. I came out of the studio exhausted, disheartened, embarrassed. Two years ago I had an interview there that went really well. That partly reflects my level of confidence in my ability to deal with and enjoy that situation now." In addition to his role as a guitarist with the Wets and Director of the Foundry Music Lab, Duffin is actively involved in the work of the

British Stammering Association The British Stammering Association (BSA), trading as STAMMA since 2019, is a national membership organisation in the United Kingdom for adults and children who stammer, their friends and families, speech and language therapists and other profes ...

Scotland, and is also an instructor/facilitator for the McGuire Programme. In February 2006, Duffin opened Foundry Music Lab a recording, rehearsal and teaching facility with two of his friends, Ted Blakeway and Sandy Jones, in

Motherwell Motherwell ( sco, Mitherwall, gd, Tobar na Màthar) is a town and former burgh in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, south east of Glasgow. It has a population of around 32,120. Historically in the parish of Dalziel and part of Lanarks ...

. In October 2006, Duffin joined Wets frontman

Marti Pellow Marti Pellow (born Mark McLachlan; 23 March 1965) is a Scottish singer. He was the lead singer of the Scottish pop group Wet Wet Wet for 28 years: from their formation in 1982 until their split in 1997, and again from their reformation in 2004 ...

for a two-month tour in support of the latter's '' Moonlight Over Memphis'' solo album. Graeme's daughter Esther Duffin married Tim O'Connor and the pair formed Ashton Lane, a

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duo with guitar work from Graeme. Albums include ''Right Here'' (2006), ''Nashville Heart'' (2015), and ''Count the Stars'' (2015).

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Celebrations - the official Graeme Duffin fansiteFacebookFoundry Music Lab''The McGuire Programme''
Living people Scottish male guitarists Wet Wet Wet members 1956 births People with speech impediment Scottish pop guitarists Musicians from Glasgow {{UK-guitarist-stub