![]() In October Maart took part in Yr Arbrawf Mawr – The Big Experiment, a three day course in traditional music at Coleg Harlech. After a few false starts including a week’s rehearsal in St Lucia, the lineup finally came together with fiddler Andy Dinan and a lot of work started to come in for the band. The Bad Shepherds was formed along with Ade Edmondson and Troy Donockley. There were a couple of visits to Rome and Barcelona for Jethro Tull Fan club conventions. A lot of production work for Sain Recordiau too, including the debut album from young Welsh traditional band Calan and the second album for Gwenan Gibbard. In 2008 there was recording with Ian McCalman, gigs with Gwenan Gibbard, Netherlands and Belgium dates with Swarb’s Lazarus, recording with the late John Wright, a TV appearance with Heather Jones, and a lot of notation work, including work for Sain Recordiau and the start of th e Dave Swarbrick Fiddle Tunes book. In 2007 there was some recording with Ralph McTell for the Steve Tilston boxset, two UK tours with Beth Nielsen Chapman, more recording and production work and ongoing dates with Swarb’s Lazarus. Festival appearances with Gwenan Gibbard, Sarah Louise, The Paperboys, Swarb’s Lazarus, Fairport Convention with guest Glenn Tilbrook. More production work for Sain Recordiau with Heather Jones, Sarah Louise and Robin Huw Bowen. In 2006 Swarb’s Lazarus began touring and Maart married his Jan in Snowdonia. An educational DVD band came together as The Working Party and the new trio Swarb’s Lazarus was formed. Also Maart produced albums from top Welsh traditional band Crasdant and harpist Gwenan Gibbard. In 2005 there was more session work for Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens), albums with Miranda Sykes Band, Kieran Halpin, Ken Nicol, and Ian McCalman & friends, and Maart and his old chum Des Friel got two songs in a movie, Irish Jam, starring Anna Friel. Also the setting up of Squiggle Records (see the boss below). In 2004 there was a Danish tour with John Wright, the Kieran Halpin Songbook Two, the Fairport Convention Songbook One v2.0, an album with Mairi Armstrong, a couple of Blue Tapestry gigs, Ralph McTell‘s 60th birthday concert and a UK tour with Beth Nielsen Chapman. Plus the Dave Swarbrick Fiddlecase Tunebook and the recording of the third solo album, Serving Suggestion. In 2003 there were eleven albums, 2 TV series and tours of Holland, Germany and Italy. In 2002, Maart toured with Blue Tapestry, Kieran Halpin, Orchard (featuring Dave Swarbrick, Beryl Marriott and Kevin Dempse y) as well as performing with Gilly Darbeyand touring the UK, Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands with The (new) John Wright Band. In 2000 Maart moved to Snowdonia and studied Welsh at Coleg Harlech. In October 1999 Maart recorded his second solo album, OX15, with guest appearances from Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull, Indian girl singer Najma Akhtar and other past and present members of both Jethro Tull and Fairport Convention. Robert Plant and me at Banbury Mill Arts Centre at one of the Fairport Cropredy warmups. This is me and Ian Anderson onstage around 1989 in Germany. ![]() One of the clerical staff there that day kept on coming out and receiving brown envelope after brown envelope… It was a mad gig though!Īlso in 1988 he was asked to join Jethro Tull on keys which he stayed with for four years, touring in North & South America, Western & Eastern Europe, Turkey and Estonia. ![]() I went for a look inside this cathedral before the gig and there are many famous Italians buried therein – Rossini, Da Vinci, Michelangelo etc. Note the Edwin Shirley (Seldom Early) Truck in the background. This is the Jethro Tull stage being assembled in front of the cathedral in Firenze, Italy. After this broke up he toured in UK, Ireland and Europe with Kieran Halpin until he was invited to join the re-forming Fairport Convention as lead guitarist in 1985, touring extensively in UK, USA, Europe, Australia, Turkey, Hong Kong & Bermuda. In 1981 he returned to music with The Bully Wee Band, a celtic folk group. I’d probably been listening to The Who that day… I’d already seen The Beatles on TV and was obviously starting to get my moody/serious rock image together. This is me in the back garden in Windermere Road, Middleton, Manchester, when I was about 6 or 7 I guess. He then trained as a chef and worked in the Shetland Islands. He moved to Brittany for a while, where he learned to cook. After studying music at Huddersfield and Leeds he played on his first tour with Mike Harding in 1977. Maartin Allcock is a multi-instrumentalist known mostly as a fretless bass player and guitarist born in Manchester in 1957.
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