The Usual Suspects (Tom Ling violin, Hugh Boyde guitar, Brian Cleary guitar and vocals, Lynne Olney - double bass and vocals) were playing together from 1993 - 2005. We made two CDs - "The Clock That Laughs" in 1996, and "As Crime Goes By" in 2001). Both are still available as CDs (msg me if you are interested). I have just put a small selection of some favourite moments here.

The Usual Suspects

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Persimmoney

04 - Too Many Satellites (RAi Ferric Mix)

Recent recording by Sorry Cousins. Recorded by Anthony Michelli at Salem House Studios.  Adrian Gross/mandolin, Darryl Poulsen/guitar, Michael Herring/bass, Tim Posgate/banjo, composer

NO JAZZ FOR ELVIS

from our debut eponymous album (Idyllic Records 2011)

Sluice

This was recorded by "The Usual Suspects" in 1996 for an album called "The Clock That Laughs".  Hugh Boyde - fiddle, Tom Ling - fiddle, Brian Cleary - guitar and lead vocal, Lynne Olney - bass. All on harmony vocals. We still have a box or two of this CD in the attic so roll up, roll up ...

1996

Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea

This was recorded by "The Usual Suspects" in 1996 for an album called "The Clock That Laughs". Composed for the band by Hugh Boyde. Bert Santilly -
 accordion. Johnny Rodgers - clarinet. Tom Ling - violin. Hugh Boyde and Brian Cleary - guitars. Lynne Olney - double bass. We still have a box or two of this CD in the attic so roll up, roll up ...

The Clock That Laughs

Waltz Lite

This was recorded by "The Usual Suspects" in 2001 for an album called "As Crime Goes By". Lynne Olney - vocal. Tom Ling - violin. Hugh Boyde -
 guitar. Brian Cleary - guitar. Dave Olney - bass. We still have a box or two of this CD in the attic so roll up, roll up ...

The Nearness Of You

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Cutting Brachen

Perhaps a happier song for 2012. I wrote this many years ago now and stumbled across it recently. The voice of my younger self really seemed to resonate with this battered but smiling woman I have become, so I decided to record it. It has been lyrically re-worked a little and a third verse added. I cannot seem to record the vocals in a way that I am happy with...so I settled for the third vocal version in the end! 

Guitar, Ukulele, Accordion, Shaker. Piano, horns, clarinet and violin.

Snow Fall Flowered

Another chapter in the ambient folk series

Taken from the Psychedelic Stomp Folk album - http://indigolab.bandcamp.com/album/psychedelic-stomp-folk

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Unforgotten Rush

This is a song inspired by the story of Rob’s father, Fausto, who was evacuated as a child from Bilbao in 1937 when the city was surrounded and blockaded by Franco’s fascists during the Spanish Civil War. Fausto was 9 years old at the time and travelled with his older brother Teo, aged 11. They were amongst 4,000 children brought to the UK to escape the bombs and the fighting. After much shameful prevarication by a British Government keen to appease the burgeoning fascist powers in Europe, an evacuation of children was eventually undertaken following increased pressure from British socialists and others after the criminal carpet
bombing of Guernica by the German Condor Legion. Parents were not allowed to travel with their children and the parting must have been unbearable. In order to console their children, mothers told them it was “only for three months” - “solo por tres meses”.

Only for Three Months

"Cafe Mondiale" consists of me on mandolin and Bert Santilly on accordion. "Shakey Breaks The Ice" has me on acoustic jazz guitar, Bert on accordion, and Trevor Barlow on clarinet. "Skibboo" has me playing original tunes on tenor banjo supported by accordion (Bert), saxes (Trevor), hurdygurdy (Duncan Moss), bouzouki (Brian Cleary), bass (Dave Olney), and percussion (Anne Templer). I have yet to assemble all the members of Skibboo in one room, let alone organise a live gig, but one day I will, and we are going to have a ball!

The Nearness Of You

Hugh Boyde

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