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LIST OF TRACKS:

1) Oyez! (00.55) Featuring Rock n' Roll Town Crier Chris Brown

Chris Brown... what can you say ... star of the John Peel show ... official Crier for The Polyphonic Spree

& now with Time Spanners ... we are honoured Mr Brown ... truly honoured!

2) Life Ago Go (04.34) Featuring Rocky on vocals

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Rocky comes from Zimbabwe, sings R'N'B & Reggae and plays, occassionally, with the Spanners

3) La Rotta (06.05)

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Anonymous 14th Century English / Italian tune, featuring Charles Spicer on English Bagpipes & Shawm.

Charles is a long time member of the Mellstock Band as well as the Oxford Waits, he is a key contributor to our Presto and Early Music shows.

4) Spanner Socca (06.03)

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5) Spanner Spirit (02.38)

6) Come on You Spanners! / Match of the Day (04.40)

7) Stingo (02.20)

A traditional English tune - very popular in the Seventeenth Century. Featuring Charles Spicer on pipe & tabor.

8) Vibrations

Music, in three sections, inspired by Richard Westall's celebration of music, read by the poet, himself.

i) Mozart (04.40)

ii) Disco (05.17)

iii) Speech Defeats / Celestial Bells (06.34)

This last cluster of three linked tracks features our resident poet Richard Westall

+Van Der Graaf Generator & Tonewall's maestro of Saxes and Soundbeams ...Mr David Jackson ...

an inspiration to us all!

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ABOUT THE BAND

 

Time Spanners Raw, spirited, diverse, unpredictable, they make you wanna dance…

festival vendors hate them …when they come on stage people are drawn across immediately.

Time Spanners are a twenty-one piece community band from West Berkshire

who play hi energy, percussion driven, music from the thirteenth century to the present day.

They have been causing quite a stir over the last two years playing to audiences at Festivals and on Radio and TV throughout the South East of England.

The band are led by Mark T. (Ex - Brickbats) and Paul Midgley (Occ. Boka Halat) so their influences are World Wide with large chunks of Samba, Socca, Hi-Life, Blues, Techno & Hip Hop as well as the Medieval stuff.

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