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

The Cribs' third album, Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever was released in May 2007; the record was produced by Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand.

The Cribs' fifth album, In the Belly of the Brazen Bull produced by Dave Fridmann and Steve Albini was released in May 2012.

In a recent poll of The Cribs back catalogue, NME claimed that "Another Number" was an "early indication of Ryan's status as one of the best – and most underrated – guitarists of his generation"[2] For Ignore the Ignorant, Jarman and Johnny Marr would refer to each other as "axe-bro's", as Marr told Total Guitar in October 2010: "We're very deliberate about being a twin guitar assault, Ryan is a busy player and I am too, so we both fizz and whoever comes to the top is backed up.

An adjust-o-matic bridge with Fender Jaguar tailpiece, large '60s-style headstock and metal control plate offer vintage looks and practical usage.

[6] Although sparingly spotted with Vox amplifiers in the early days of the Cribs, Jarman has almost always played through Orange amps.

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

In his haste to accept it, he jumped across the Kaiser Chiefs' table, breaking a large jar containing 'Flying Saucer' sweets and stabbing himself in the back on one of the shards.