Duncan McFarlane, acoustic guitar, mandolin, cittern & vox
Anne Brivonese, electric fiddle & vox
Steve Fairholme, melodeon & vox
Nick Pepper, drums
Tony Rogerson, bass guitar
Geoff Taylor, electric guitar, cittern & mandolin
That's the 'standard' line-up, but we are proud to have our friends 'stand in'
where needed...
Bernie Gilmour (drums)...
Gerry McNiece (bass)
and our younger pals ...
Dave Budd (drums) and
Matt Peel (bass)...
tho' we try not to let 'em be seen as they catch too many admiring glances
(and they do halve the average age of the band!)
- hah!
B/W pix on here are invariably the work of Ani McNeice!
Influences
Dunx on the one hand: Nic Jones, Martin Carthy, Richard Thompson
& on the other: Ian Anderson, Martin Barre, Andy Powell, Stephen Fellows.
As for the band? They've never told me!
Sounds Like
Tricky! Each individual will equate us to their own 'nearest known equivalent'.
We try to be like 'us' and not anybody else.
The Duncan McFarlane Band (electric)
The world can always use more good English folk-rock and this is loud, fast music,
based on the rhythms of English country dance music with sharp-edged electric
guitar leads, electric fiddle, and gutsy, gritty singing.
Essentially solid, energetic English electric folk, full of pumping riffs and
loads of energy. Its nice to find a folk-rock band that understands both folk
AND rock and knows how to draw on one without diluting the other.
'Robust folk-rock - reels, jigs and stout songs, well-executed and infectiously
lively.'
(these quotes from fRoots; Yorkshire Evening Post; Dirty Linen(USA);
Shreds & Patches; Tykes News; Stirrings)
Visit our main website, buy CDs there using PayPal www.duncanmcfarlane.co.uk/
Our new album makes top reviewer Colin Randall's Top Ten Albums of 2007!!!
Look here..... http://www.salutlive.com/salut_lists/index.html
Duncan McFarlane (solo)
Classy English Folk Guitar, eminently listenable vocals and great songs,
both traditional and contemporary. (Mike Raven)
Duncan's a punchy guitarist in the 'English folk' style and offers a
set about equally split between his own songs, other people's and traditional.
(fRoots)
Stylistically, Duncan's guitar technique falls very much within the Carthy/Nic
Jones school, with a strong rhythmic impetus that's infectious in the extreme. His singing has real character too. (Traditional Music Maker)
Duncan has a 'solo' MySpace with six songs to download.... www.myspace.com/duncanmcfarlane....
The Duncan McFarlane Band track 'The Sheepstealer' to be aired on Merlin's Magical Music Moments; Wednesday 7th October 2009. Live on air on Soundart Radio 102.5 fm 20.30 - 22.00 pm GMT. Tonight we re-vist the fabulous Shrewsbury Folk Festival held over the August Bank Holiday. The full play list is now up on my blog.
To listen live follow the link @ www. soundartradio. org. uk
Thanks for being our friend! Let me tell you about RHYTHM FESTIVAL 2009 at Twinwood Arena, Clapham, Bedford, MK41 6AB over the weekend of Friday 21 to Sunday 23 August 2009 ALABAMA 3, THE PROCLAIMERS, JAMES HUNTER, TERRY REID GLENN TILBROOK & THE FLUFFERS, THE BEAT, BLOW MONKEYS MARTIN TURNER'S WISHBONE ASH, JOHN COOPER CLARKE + lots, lots more... More information from: http://rhythmfestival.net/buytickets.html
Hi Duncan and friends! Just dropping by to say thank you so much for the fantastic gig at The Brown Cow last night. Love from Brown Cow Sue and friends.xx
