Recorded by PSR at The Thorn Tree. Mixed and produced by Peter and Michael at Spareroom Studios, Belper.

Two Border Morris tunes - played with a difference. Both have been melodeon.net 'Tune Of The Month'

I try to play these tune in music sessions at this slowed down pace but everyone joins in at Morris Speed ( faster )

It seems like this track is my 'biggest hit' on Soundcloud with over two thousand plays - which is nice.

I'd love to get a band together to play this sort of stuff at Folk Festivals and have local border sides on stage with us... One day in my dreams...

Thanks for listening...

Alan x

Bear Dance and Thème Vannetais

When Iceland told the bankers to f**k off.

This is a song from the album, Spies Are Reading My Blog, which you can download or stream in its entirety at:  www.davidrovics.bandcamp.com

Iceland, 2008

When Iceland told the bankers to fuck off.

Iceland 2008

This is my half of the last show on the tour of Sweden I did in April, 2015 with Swedish singer/songwriter, Kristian von Svensson.  The tour was in the year of the 100th anniversary of the execution by firing squad of Swedish-born IWW organizer, cartoonist and songwriter, Joel Emanuel Hegland, more popularly known as Joe Hill.  This was the theme of my set throughout the tour, as with Kristian's.

Live in Gothenberg

Painting by Megan Louise Hickey.

This song has been in my head for years, it's a song about making art while in a spiritua/emotional void. Attempting to dream up a world, where all you see is blackness

Andromeda

Tell Me Ma
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TellMe - Jigery Folkery

A trilogy. The opening piece 'March of the Levellers' was the first Renaissance tune I wrote:  in its original form it was the opening track on my second album 'Sawdust and Empire' in 1983. Then the words of the first English Socialist, Gerrard Winstanley, leader of the Diggers, in 1649, set to an old traditional tune, and finally a version of Leon Rosselson's great song about the Diggers - the latter pair are the only covers we do. This and the other tracks on this page are all from the first Barnstormer album, 'The Siege of Shoreham' released in 1996 and still available from www.attilathestockbroker.com . In the late 90s we did quite a few gigs around the UK playing this kind of stuff. Then our lineup changed... 
We became a band who toured extensively in mainland Europe and hardly at all in the UK (I did my solo stuff here) playing melodic Clashy punk with the odd medieval tinge and releasing three more albums: 'Just One Life' (2000) 'Zero Tolerance' (2004) and 'Bankers & Looters' (2012) 
But now the band has reverted to what I always intended it to be - a punk band playing (home made) Renaissance and Baroque music. Touring the UK as of March 2018. 
It truly is the Renaissance of Barnstormer in ever sense of the word.
Now inspired both instrumentally and lyrically by the incredible, radical period of the English Revolution of 1649, we are currently rehearsing 11 new pieces I have written (songs and instrumentals) for a new album 'Restoration Tragedy' which will be released later in the year.

The Siege Of Shoreham

March Of The Levellers/The Diggers Song/The World Turned Upside Down

One from my children's CD.  Down with the bullies, up with a unified rebel front!

Bullies

For the war memorial in Pittsburgh and other US cities, which features blank slates reserved for future wars.  Only in the US.

TellMe - Jigery Folkery

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