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Martyn Wylde

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  • Martyn Wylde

  • 100 / Male
  • Florida, US
  • Last Login: 12/23/2009

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Interests

  • General

    Interests: history (medieval, renaissance, "the old west"), travel, photography, reading, music (but not reading music), Celtic spirituality/Druidry, tarot, working in my recording studio, Cowboy Action Shooting and related history, art, costuming, etc. Likes: mountains, trees and forests, streams and waterfalls, storms, renaissance faires, animals
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  • Music

    Gershwin, The Beatles, Cream, The Who, Craig of Farrington, Led Zeppelin, Show of Hands, Jeff Beck, Kate Rusby, Minstrels of Mayhem, Jack Bruce, Jean Luc Ponti, Dougie McLean, Damh The Bard, Martin Simpson, Flook, Andy Irvine, Sting, The Harper and the Minstrel, Return to Forever, Robert Johnson, Cantiga, Andy M. Stewart, Deanta, Loreena McKinnet, John Renbourn

  • Movies

    Excalibur, The Illusionist, A Night At The Opera, Manhattan, A Hard Day's Night, Tombstone, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Casablanca, My Favorite Year, Kenneth Brannagh's versions of Much Ado About Nothing and Henry V, The Quiet Man, Silverado

  • Television

    Star Trek TNG, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Bat Masterson, Fawlty Towers, Monarch of the Glen, "Britcoms", No Reservations with Anthony Bourdain, BBC World News, Dr. Who, Deadwood, Robin of Sherwood

  • Books

    The Mists of Avalon, The DaVinci Code, Canterbury Tales, Worldly Goods, Inventing Wyatt Earp, The Mist Filled Path, Hallowquest and Druidcraft tarots. I have amassed quite a library of titles relating to druidry, which strikes me strange as neo-paganism in general and druidry in particular are oral traditions. One of those things that makes you say "hmmmmm....." Lately I'm reading a lot about "The Old West" - both non-fiction and fiction - and anything I can find about "cowboy action shooting". In my misspent youth, I had dreamed of being a sort of crusading gunslinger/righter of wrongs and being involved in CAS is as close as I'm likely to get! (photos coming soon - try not to laugh)

  • Heroes

    Joan and Bryan (my wife and son), my father, John Lennon, William Barkley Masterson

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About me:

Being a Gemini and performing at renaissance faires provides me with two good excuses for having multiple personnas (I'll answer to Mark if you insist, but I prefer Martyn, especially on - or near - stage). In addition to my most important life roles, those of husband and father, I'm a musician, singer and actor. I play acoustic guitar, bass guitar, octave mandolin, bouzouki, various percussion instruments (hand drums, tambourine, the infamous egg and bodhran - not well, but working on it) and I love singing, especially harmony. I enjoy nearly all musical genres - although there are a few exceptions - and I perform solo and with two musical groups; Celtic Mayhem & Wyldefyre. We play in pubs and at renaissance, medieval, pirate and Celtic festivals. My solo CD, Minstrel's Lament, is available at http://cdbaby.com/cd/martynwylde. Wyldefyre has three CDs available online and we're planning a new CD of pyrate and sailing songs - Tree getting back to her Privy-Tiers roots - recording will start as soon as we've finished choosing and, in some cases, writing the songs. The first Celtic Mayhem CD was released in February '09 and can be found on CD Baby and on the band's website (www.celticmayhem.net), along with itunes and other digital download sites. Many thanks to everyone for their kind words about both my album and Celtic Mayhem's initial effort. We're already planning another one and it will be even better! I'm also a druid, having completed the Bardic grade course of The Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids (OBOD). I'm debating when to continue my studies with the Ovate Grade. I expect I will do - but I'm taking a break and letting what I've learned sink in and further manifest itself in daily life.

Who I'd like to meet:

I've met a lot of people I'd wanted to, notably my all-time fretless bass hero Jack Bruce and two of my five all-time guitar heroes, Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton (the other three are Jeff Beck, Martin Simpson and Martin Carthy). And I'd be remiss not to mention my friend and mentor Craig of Farrington, without whom......... I'd like to meet Bob Boze Bell, Bill Clinton, President Obama, Sir Paul McCartney and the list of musicians I'd like to play with could be nearly endless, although right at the top of the list would definitely be Ty Billings, Jack Stamates, Craig Broers, Jerry Barry, Jim Hancock and Thomas Nuendel and I have had the good fortune and extreme pleasure to have played music with all of them. But of the people I haven't met (or rather won't get a chance to meet, 'cause they've passed on), the list would include: Queen Elizabeth I, Bat Masterson, Ross Nicols, George Harrison, Ghandi, Groucho Marx, James Butler Hickok, and Turlough O'Carolan.

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