Sleeve Notes
Philip Pickett - bagpipes and bass crumhorns
Bert Cleaver - pipe and tabor
John
Kirkpatrick - button accordion
Simon Nicol - electric guitar
Ashley Hutchings - bass guitar
Roger Swallow - drums
Gary Watson as Geoffrey Chaucer (reading from The Romaunt of the Rose)
Rod Skeaping - rebecs
Jeremy Montagu - tambourine
Roger Swallow - triangle
Roger Swallow, Jeremy Montagu, Dave Mattacks, John Kirkpatrick - percussion
Rod Skeaping - rebec
John Kirkpatrick
- regal
Peter Knight - fiddle
Simon Nicol - electric guitar
Ashley Hutchings - bass guitar
Dave Mattacks - drums
Roger Swallow - tabor
Jeremy Montagu - nakers
Bernard Hepton as the Puritan William Prynne (reading from Histriomastix)
Francis Baines - hurdy-gurdy
Sue Harris - oboes
Simon Nicol - electric and acoustic guitars
Ashley Hutchings
- bass guitar
Roger Swallow - drums
Oboe
parts arranged by John Kirkpatrick
'Twas a very dark afternoon, and by the end of the sermon all you could see of the
inside of the church were the pa'son's two candles alongside of him in the pulpit, and his spaking face behind 'em. The sermon
being ended at last, the pa'son gi'ed out the Evening Hymn. But no quire set about sounding up the tune, and the people began
to turn their heads to learn the reason why, and then Levi Limpet, a boy who sat in the gallery, nudged Timothy and Nicholas,
and said, ``Begin! Begin!''
``Hey? What?'' says Nicholas, starting up; and the church being so dark and his head
so muddled he thought he was at the party they had played at all the hight before, and away he went, bow and fiddle, at ``The
Devil among the Tailors,'' the favourite jig of our neighbourhood at that time. The rest of the band, being in the same state
of mind and nothing doubting, followed their leader with all their strength, according to custom. They poured out that there
tune till the lower bass notes of ``The Devil among the Tailors'' made the cobwebs in the roof shiver like ghosts; then Nicholas,
seeing nobody moved, shouted out as he scraped (in his usual commanding way at dances when the folk didn't know the figures),
``Top couples cross hands! And when I make the fiddle squeak at the end, every man kiss his partner under the mistletoe!''
... Then the unfortunate church band came
to their senses, and remembered where they were; and 'twas a sight to see Nicholas Puddingcome and Timothy Thomas and John
Biles creep down the gallery stairs with their fiddles under their arms, and poor Dan'l Hornhead with his serpent, and Robert
Dowdle with his clarionet, all looking as little as ninepins; and out they went. The pa'son might have forgi'ed 'em when he
learned the truth o't, but the squire would not. That very week he sent for a barrel-organ that would play two-and-twenty
new psalm-tunes, so exact and particular, that, however sinful inclined you was, you could play nothing but psalm-tunes whatsomever.
He had a really respectable man to turn the winch, as I said, and the old players played no more. ...
(From Absent Mindedness in a Parish Choir by Thomas Hardy)
Sue Harris - oboe
Richard Harvey - clarinet
Rod Skeaping - tenor viol
Adam
Skeaping - bass viol
Alan Lumsden - serpent
Jeremy Montagu - side drum
Roger Swallow - bass drum
Additional arranging by Richard Harvey
Sarah Badel as Beatrice (in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing)
John Kirkpatrick - anglo concertina and button accordion
Terry Potter - mouth
organ
Dave Kettlewell - hammer dulcimer
Alan Ward - cello
Simon Nicol - electric guitar
Ashley Hutchings - bass
guitar
Roger Swallow - drums and tambourine
John Kirkpatrick - anglo concertina
Terry Potter - mouth organ
Dave Kettlewell
- clarinet
Alan Ward - cello
Ashley Hutchings - bass guitar
Simon Nicol - drums
Terry Potter - mouth organ
John Kirkpatrick - anglo concertina
Dave Kettlewell
- piano
Simon Nicol - electric guitar
Ashley Hutchings - bass guitar
Roger Swallow - drums
Dave Mattacks - temple
blocks
Michael Gough as William Hogarth (reading from Analysis of Beauty)
Fanny Warnock - spinet
Peter Knight - fiddle
Simon Nicol - electric guitar
Ashley
Hutchings - bass guitar
Dave Mattacks - drums and tambourine
Michael Hordern as Charles Dickens (reading from Sketches by Boz)
John Kirkpatrick - anglo concertina
Ray Warleigh - alto saxophone
Simon Nicol
- electric guitar
Ashley Hutchings - bass guitar
Dave Mattacks - drums
Bert Cleaver - pipe and tabor
John Kirkpatrick - regal
Simon Nicol - electric
and acoustic guitars
Ashley Hutchings - bass guitar
Dave Mattacks - drums
Alec McCowen as Arbeau and Ian Ogilvy as Capriol (reading from Orchesographie)
The Jaye Consort of Viols:
Francis Baines - treble viol
Elisabeth Baines -
treble viol
Loni Patt - tenor viol
Peter Vel - bass viol
Tout Ensemble!
