Adam Patrick Devlin (born 17 September 1969) is an English musician and songwriter. He is the guitarist of the indie rock band the Bluetones. Devlin has been described as one of the most skilled guitarists from the Britpop era.
Devlin was born in Lambeth, South London, and was raised in a household passionate for football. His family supported Chelsea and he experimented with various different teams to support but decided to stay with Brentford. The band's biggest hit, "Slight Return", depicts a bee on its cover as a nod to Brentford's logo.
Growing up, Devlin showed a large interest in music. He listened to bands such as the Smiths, Orange Juice, Aztec Camera, Felt, the Alarm and Big Country. Between the ages of 16 to 19, he attended two gigs every week.
Devlin attended Gunnersbury School for Boys and left with 10 O-levels and 1 A-level in art. He dropped out of college to become a graphic designer.
The Bluetones frontman, Mark Morriss, met Devlin while moving into a shared house while he was in another local Hounslow rivalry Madchester-inspired baggy group called A Perfect Mess at the time. Since Morriss and his brother Scott were in a group together called the Bottlegarden, where its founding members were leaving, they shared their frustration with Devlin and said it would work out for them if he could join their group which he agreed to. After their drummer left, the three continued to write music together and ended up disbanding and reforming as the Bluetones. As they started to achieve record success, Devlin was living in another shared house in Wimbledon.
Following the Bluetones' split in 2011, Devlin formed Thee Cee Cees with singer-songwriter Chris T-T. The band released their debut album Solution Songs in 2015. He also played guitar on Morriss' solo EP, The Fi-Lo Beddow EP, in February 2006.
On 17 January 2013, alongside Morriss and the Bluetones drummer Eds Chesters, Devlin played a one-off gig at the Queen of Hoxton in London as part of Morriss' Pledge campaign to help fund money for the production of his second solo album, A Flash of Darkness.
In 2015, the Bluetones reformed for a tour of the UK, which coincided with the forthcoming twentieth anniversary of their 1996 debut album, Expecting to Fly.
Since 2023, Devlin started performing acoustic gigs around the UK with Morriss outside of band tours.
On 29 March 2016, Devlin's brother Simon Gorecki was murdered along with his partner Natasha Sadler-Ellis at their home in Canterbury by her ex-boyfriend. Following their deaths, they appeared in series 2 of Channel 5's A Killer Makes a Call. Devlin told KentOnline "I'm of course curious to see the documentary and I'll absolutely watch it as it will be hard not to."