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British bassist

Guy Adam Pratt (born 3 January 1962) is a British bassist. He has worked with artists including Pink Floyd, Roxy Music, Gary Moore, Madonna, Peter Cetera, Michael Jackson, the Smiths, Robert Palmer, Echo & the Bunnymen, Tears for Fears, Icehouse, Bananarama, Iggy Pop, Tom Jones, Debbie Harry, Whitesnake, Womack & Womack, Kirsty MacColl, Coverdale•Page, Lemon Jelly, the Orb, All Saints, Stephen Duffy, Robbie Robertson and A. R. Rahman. In addition to his work as a session musician, Pratt has been a member of the Australian rock band Icehouse, a founding member of the American rock band Toy Matinee, and is currently a member of the band Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets. Pratt has also been an actor and worked on TV and film soundtracks, including Dick Tracy (1990), Last Action Hero (1993), Hackers (1995), Still Crazy (1998) and Johnny English Reborn (2011). In 2005 he debuted a one man music and comedy show.

Pratt was born on 3 January 1962, in a flat above a shop on the Cut, London. His father, Mike Pratt, was an actor, songwriter and screenwriter who died when Guy was 14. Pratt worked for a while as a graphic designer, but decided to concentrate on a music career. In the late 1970s, Pratt was in a band based in Southend on Sea called Speedball, which released a single on NO PAP1 Records called "No Survivors". In 1981, aged 19, Pratt was asked to tour with Icehouse. Two years later as a member of Icehouse he supported David Bowie on his Serious Moonlight Tour, which was Bowie's longest, largest, and most successful concert tour. A support slot at a 1984 David Gilmour solo concert led to a stint with Pink Floyd. He also spent some time in Los Angeles where he played with Madonna and Michael Jackson.

In 1986, the Smiths' bassist Andy Rourke was arrested on drug possession charges shortly before the band was scheduled to leave for its North American tour in support of The Queen Is Dead. Expecting that Rourke would thus be denied work visas for the U. S. and Canada, the band's guitarist, Johnny Marr, asked Pratt to step in. He spent nearly two weeks with Rourke and the band, learning bass lines and rehearsing, but shortly before the band was to leave Britain Rourke received his visas, and there was no need for Pratt to go. Pratt came to prominence when he was chosen to play bass for Pink Floyd's post Roger Waters A Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour in 1987–90, and The Division Bell Tour in 1994. He co performed the lead vocals on "Run Like Hell", "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2", "Us and Them" and "Comfortably Numb" with Gilmour during the live shows. He also played bass on several tracks on The Division Bell. Tony Levin had performed all of the bass parts on A Momentary Lapse of Reason; Pratt replaced him on the later tour owing to Levin's unavailability. Pratt also toured as part of Gilmour's On an Island Tour backing band, alongside another Pink Floyd member (and his father in law), Richard Wright. He also later performed with Gilmour during his Rattle That Lock World Tour in 2015–16. Producer and keyboardist Patrick Leonard approached Pratt in 1988 about forming a band, and helping him recruit members of what would become Toy Matinee. Pratt co wrote many of the songs and played bass on all of the tracks on Toy Matinee's only studio album, released in 1990. Pratt played bass on Gary Moore's Dark Days in Paradise tour in 1997. Besides working as a bass player, Pratt is a songwriter and composes music for TV and film. As a songwriter, Pratt co wrote the UK number one hit "Ain't No Doubt" by Jimmy Nail. He produced, co wrote and played bass, guitar and keyboards on the music for the 1998 Channel 4 drama series The Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Rock Star. With regular collaborator Dom Beken, he provided the theme music to Spaced, where he also appeared as the character Minty. Pratt also acted in Linda Green and appeared in an episode of the remake of Randall & Hopkirk, starring Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer. Pratt's father Mike had played the part of Jeff Randall in the original 1960s series. Pratt also played as a regular in the backing band for the BBC Radio 2 musical comedy show Jammin' with Rowland Rivron. Pratt and Jimmy Cauty released a single "I Wanna 1 2 1 With You" as Solid Gold Chartbusters in 1999; Pratt and Cauty (a founder of the Orb) later teamed up with the other original member of the Orb, Alex Paterson, to form Transit Kings. Pratt's one man music and comedy show, My Bass & Other Animals, debuted in August 2005 at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe; this led to his book of the same name, published in May 2007. Pratt spent 2011 performing stand up in Switzerland, Australia, and at the Edinburgh Fringe, as well as on a South American tour playing bass guitar for Dominic Miller. In April 2010, Pratt joined the Argentine cover band the End Pink Floyd, with Durga McBroom and Jon Carin, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Pratt joined the Australian Pink Floyd Show on stage on 13 June 2011 for the Hampton Court Palace Festival for the song "Run Like Hell". He joined the UK Pink Floyd cover band Brit Floyd on stage on 9 November 2013 as a special guest during the Liverpool leg of their Pulse tour. He performed on the songs "One of These Days", "Comfortably Numb" and shared lead vocals with the band's lead singer Damian Darlington during the finale of "Run Like Hell". During the COVID 19 pandemic, he made a series of "Lockdown Licks" videos released on his YouTube channel, reminiscing about some of his best known work.

In 2018, Pratt and others formed a new band, Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets, to perform Pink Floyd's early psychedelic material. Along with Pratt, the band comprises Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason, former Blockheads guitarist Lee Harris, vocalist and guitarist Gary Kemp of Spandau Ballet, and Pratt's collaborator keyboardist Dom Beken. The band toured Europe and North America in 2018 and 2019, with a third tour postponed to 2021 due to the COVID 19 pandemic. In September 2020, they released a live album and film, Live at the Roundhouse.

Pratt's standard bass guitar arsenal includes a selection of various vintage Fender Precision and Jazz Basses, three Music Man StingRay 4 strings (black with rosewood fretboard and black pickguard, black with maple fretboard and white pickguard, natural with maple fretboard and black pickguard), a pair of headless Status 4 and 5 strings (fretless and fretted) and an amber Stuart Spector NS2. During David Gilmour's On an Island Tour, he mainly used a 3 colour sunburst 1961 Fender Precision, a burgundy mist 1963 Fender Jazz named 'Betsy', a Status Vintage GP Signature and a Framus Triumph electric upright bass. On Gilmour's Live in Gdańsk DVD he is seen playing his Fender Jazz and Precision Basses as well as a Candy Apple Red Lakland Joe Osborn signature fretless Jazz Bass and a Rickenbacker 4001. On the studio jamming sessions included in the DVD, he played several Fender Jazz Basses, a Hofner Icon bass and a Ned Steinberger Design CR electric upright. Pratt played his fretted 5 string and fretless 4 string Status headless basses, the amber Spector NS2, the burgundy mist "Betsy" 1963 Jazz Bass and two Precision Basses (a 2 colour sunburst 1958 and a "single coil pickup" butterscotch blonde 1951) during the Pulse concerts in 1994. Pratt was seen playing Aria SB series and fretless Steinberger L2/Xl headless basses during his stint in Icehouse. Pratt has used Rickenbacker 4001V63 and a "Sunburst" 4003 Rickenbacker bass, when playing earlier (Barrett era) Pink Floyd songs, when performing at David Gilmour solo projects and Nick Mason's "Saucerful of Secrets" band. His amps are usually Ashdown ABM heads and Ashdown ABM 810 cabinets, although when playing with Gilmour they are WEM badged to match Gilmour's cabinets.

He has been nominated for two Ivor Novello Awards and was awarded an ARIA Award for his work with Icehouse.

Pratt married furniture designer Gala Wright, daughter of the Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright, in 1996 in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London. The couple have a son. They later divorced. In 2013, Pratt moved to Brighton. In 2019, he was announced as the general election candidate for the Renew Party in Brighton Kemptown. That March, he became engaged to the children's author Georgia Byng.

Year Title Artist1990 Wild and Lonely The Associates 1990 Naked Blue Pearl 1990 I'm Breathless Madonna 1990 Toy Matinee Toy Matinee1991 Ripe Banderas 1991 Pop Life Bananarama 1991 Long Road Junior Reid 1991 Electric Landlady Kirsty MacColl 1991 Storyville Robbie Robertson 1991 A Different Kind of Weather The Dream Academy 1991 The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld The Orb 1992 Masterfile Icehouse 1992 Growing Up in Public Jimmy Nail 1992 U. F. Orb The Orb 1993 Debravation Debbie Harry 1993 Donna De Lory Donna De Lory 1993 Call Me Nightlife Nokko 1993 Elemental Tears for Fears 1994 Billy Pilgrim Billy Pilgrim 1994 Mamouna Bryan Ferry 1994 Well Katey Sagal 1994 The Division Bell Pink Floyd 1994 "Take It Back" (single) Pink Floyd 1994 Heitor TP Heitor Pereira 1994 The Next Hundred Years Ted Hawkins 1994 Meanwhile Third Matinee 1994 Fruit of Life Wild Colonials 1995 Euroflake in Silverlake Gregory Gray 1995 HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I Michael Jackson 1995 Pulse Pink Floyd 1995 A Spanner in the Works Rod Stewart 1996 Raise the Pressure Electronic 1997 Dark Days in Paradise Gary Moore 1997 Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix Michael Jackson 1997 The Next Hundred Years [Gold Edition] Ted Hawkins 1997 Restless Heart Reunion David Coverdale & Whitesnake 1998 Dil Se for the song Dil Se Re A. R. Rahman 1998 Messiah Meets Progenitor Messiah 1998 The Ted Hawkins Story: Suffer No More Ted Hawkins 1999 What Are You Going to Do with Your Life? Echo & the Bunnymen 1999 Michael Hutchence Michael Hutchence 1999 Reload Tom Jones

Year Title Artist 2000 Lemonjelly. ky Lemon Jelly 2000 Ronan Ronan Keating 2000 Somewhere in the Sun: Best of the Dream Academy The Dream Academy 2001 Born Bond 2001 Crystal Days: 1979 1999 Echo & the Bunnymen 2001 Jacob Young Jacob Young 2001 Bring Down the Moon Naimee Coleman 2001 White Lilies Island Natalie Imbruglia 2001 Read My Lips Sophie Ellis Bextor 2001 Mixed Up World Pt. 2 Sophie Ellis Bextor 2001 They Called Him Tin Tin Stephen Duffy 2001 Mink Car They Might Be Giants 2001 Toy Matinee: Special Edition Toy Matinee 2002 Watching Angels Mend Alex Lloyd 2002 Born [Japan Bonus Tracks] Bond 2002 Shine Bond 2002 Lost Horizons Lemon Jelly 2002 Festival Paola & Chiara 2003 Remixed [Japan Bonus Tracks] Bond 2003 Journey into Paradise Dr. Alex Paterson 2003 The Outer Marker Just Jack 2003 Shoot from the Hip Sophie Ellis Bextor 2003 Reload [Bonus Tracks] Tom Jones 2004 Mistaken Identity Delta Goodrem 2004 Live at Montreux, 1990 Gary Moore 2005 Explosive: The Best of bond Bond 2005 A Million in Prizes: The Anthology Iggy Pop 2006 On an Island David Gilmour 2006 "Arnold Layne" (single) David Gilmour 2006 So Still Mozez 2006 Living in a Giant Candle Winking at God Transit Kings 2007 Dylanesque Bryan Ferry 2008 Live in Gdańsk David Gilmour