"[1] When he was fourteen, Walker's family moved south from Chester le Street to Bletchley in Buckinghamshire and he attended Leon School; it was during this era that he acquired his nickname due to his north-eastern "Geordie" accent.

[2] He decided to learn to play the guitar: "I used to run home from school at about four, lock myself in the bedroom, turn the amp up full, and thrash it till he [his dad] came in.

[1] His first guitar was bought in Northampton at Christmas 1973; when his mother saw a Gibson Les Paul in the shop, she suggested he try it in remembrance of a concert she attended with Jimi Hendrix on the bill.

[3] Walker later moved to London to study architecture and became a founding member of Killing Joke in March 1979 when he responded to an advertisement placed by the singer Jaz Coleman.

[8] In the mid-1990s, Walker lived in Royal Oak, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, with his wife Ginny Kiraly and his son Atticus (born in 1992).

[9] At the time of the recording of Hosannas from the Basements of Hell in 2006, he produced UK girl punk rock act Mary–Jane at Faust Studios in Prague.

[1] Walker also named Siouxsie and the Banshees' debut studio album The Scream (1978) as an influence because their original guitarist John McKay "came out with these chord structures that I found very refreshing".

"It suits the resonance and the volume of the thing, and you can use heavier strings [...] Basically if I play an E-position chord, it's D."[3] Walker said that "a guitar has a lot of musical capability, but it has the rhythm as well.

[13] His guitar of choice was a hollow-bodied 1952 Gibson ES-295 in gold lacquer with a trapeze tailpiece,[1] a model also used by Elvis Presley sideman Scotty Moore.