This photo was taken at Woodchester Mansion in Gloucestershire at the weekend. This is The Ominous Folk, in big band mode. It's also the basis of a number of other projects which we're still working out.
On the left of the photo is Robin Burton, who I've mentioned in other posts. We've been playing together for a while, I wrote a mumming play for him last year, I sing occasionally with his Swing Rioters band and he's the founder of Stroud Wassail.
In the fabulous green coat is Tom Brown - often referred to on this blog. He's the person who started the Hopeless, Maine project, and is a member of the regular Ominous Folk line up. Tom is an illustrator and has created the defining look for Hopeless, Maine.
Susie Roberts has goggles on her hat and is another regular member of Ominous Folk. Her involvement was really what pulled that project together and she's a superb harmony singer.
Next to Susie is the entirely fabulous Jessica Law (Magnus Archives, The Mechanisms) who I'm definitely going to be doing more music with in the future, and also some other entirely bonkers performance stuff, all being well. She's a fine singer songwriter, do look her up.
In the red hat we have Keith Errington - also often mentioned on the blog, and a longstanding contributor to the Hopeless, Maine project. He's getting more involved with all of the musical projects and will be out and about this year with original songs and a guitar.
Then there's me.
On the right hand end of the line we have that most excellent of entities, James Weaselgrease, another regular Ominous Folk member, and my co-conspirator on so many things over the years. People often assume we're siblings, but he is the James I often mention on the blog, and for those of you who have been here for a long time, he used to be the tigerboy. He's bigger now.
This is my circus, these are (to my great delight) my monkeys.
Here's a video from the event taken by Mark Hayes. This is The Magpie by Davey Dodds.
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