Mad Martins
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The CDs & Book
Mad Martins is available as an epic 50-track triple CD by Gary Miller with Keith Armstrong, Iain Petrie & Friends, housed in a lavishly-packaged 104-page Deluxe Book designed by Helen Temperley containing lyrics to all the songs, poems and spoken word pieces, with additional interlinking text and many beautiful images, including paintings, engravings, sketches, illustrations, and original artwork, further enhancing the story. You can browse some of the pages from the book in our Gallery.
Mad Martins is released by Whippet Records (WPTCDB24) and is available to buy direct from our Shop.
(Also available from official stockist Crown Studio, 13, Bridge Street, Rothbury, Northumberland, NE65 7SE, UK.)
Track Listing : -
Disc 1
Introduction
1. Three Mad Martins (Prophecy)
Part 1 - William Martin
4. God And Air
6. In Dreamtime
7. Inventions
9. On Libraries
11. The Philosopher's Cure For The Cholera Morbus
12. Medals
13. A Description Of William Martin
14. William, You Were Really Something
15. Reflections
Disc 2
Part 2 - Jonathan Martin
17. In The Navy (Jonathan's Chantey & Hornpipe)
20. Four Bare Walls
21. Escape
22. The Life Of Jonathan Martin
23. My 'Life'
24. A Special Instrument (Charles Dickens on Jonathan Martin, Part 1)
25. Blood, Fire And Smoke (Ballad Of The Incendiary)
26. Jonathan's Departure From Maria
28. A Description Of Jonathan Martin
29. At The Assizes
30. Madhouse Martin
32. On A Visit To Bedlam (Charles Dickens on Jonathan Martin, Part 2)
Disc 3
Part 3 - John Martin
33. John's Song
37. Searching For The Waters Of Oblivion
38. That's Me!
39. I Saw The Signs
40. In My Hands
42. Drainage Scheme
43. Facing-Both-Ways
44. A Thin Veneer
46. Wicked Old World
47. The Most Original Genius Of His Age (Edward Bulwer-Lytton on John Martin)
48. Pandemonium
Epilogue
49. Three Mad Martins (Epitaph)
Postscript
50. At Anchor
Performed by : -
Songs
Gary Miller - Lead & Backing Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, standard & octave Mandolins, occasional Electric Guitar, Bouzouki, assorted traditional & invented Percussion
Iain Petrie – numerous Electric & Acoustic Guitars, Piano, Keyboards, Ukeleles, Glockenspiel, Bass, Drums, assorted traditional & invented Percussion, Backing Vocals, Harmonies, Programming, Orchestral Arrangements, etc…
Poems and spoken word pieces
Keith Armstrong - Voice (Poetry Recitation, Narration)
Richard Doran – Bouzouki, Dulcimer
Glenn Miller - Accordion
Mick Tyas - Mandolin
Ann Sessoms - Northumbrian Pipes
Iain Petrie - Additional Keyboards, Programming & Effects
Guest Lead Vocalists
Mick Tyas - Lead Vocals on The Dandy Horse and In The Navy (Jonathan's Chantey & Hornpipe) (plus Backing Vocals on The Leaping Swordsman, "Shoot The Bishop!", Four Bare Walls, Escape, A Painting For Charles)
Marie Tucker - Lead Vocal on Maria's Testimony
Karen Ross - Lead Vocal Duet with Gary on A Thin Veneer
Sylvia Doran - Lead Vocal on ‘Wicked Old World' (plus Backing Vocals on Three Mad Martins (Prophecy))
Additional Guest Musicians
Jennie Beasty - Fiddle on The Leaping Swordsman, Maria's Testimony and "Shoot The Bishop!"
Trevor Kinsel - Trumpet on Medals
Frank Meadley - Bodhran on In The Navy (Jonathan's Chantey & Hornpipe)
Glenn Miller - Accordion on Three Mad Martins (Prophecy), The Leaping Swordsman, The Dandy Horse, In The Navy (Jonathan's Chantey & Hornpipe) "Shoot The Bishop!"
Mick Tyas - Mandolin & Percussion on In The Navy (Jonathan's Chantey & Hornpipe), Harmonica on A Painting For Charles
Additional Guest Vocalists
Tamsin Davidson - Backing Vocals on God And Air
Anna Emmins - Backing Vocals on God And Air
Barbara Petrie (R.I.P.) - Harmony Vocals on "Shoot The Bishop!"
With
'The Press-ganged and Beleaguered Crew of The Good Ship Hercules' (Richard Doran, 'Glasgow' Jimmy, Frank Meadley, Gary Miller and Iain Petrie; ably led by 'Captain' Mick Tyas) - Backing Vocals, plus various shouts, "heave-ho's", hoots, hollers and hearty howls on In The Navy (Jonathan's Chantey & Hornpipe)
Featuring
The Albert Ness Ensemble - Orchestration on In My Hands
The Lick Spittals - Horns
Title & Initial Project Concept by Keith Armstrong
Musical Direction by Gary Miller
All songs arranged by Gary Miller & Iain Petrie
All accordion tunes arranged by Glenn Miller
All mandolin, dulcimer/bouzouki tunes arranged by Richard Doran & Mick Tyas
All northumbrian pipe tunes arranged by Ann Sessoms
Produced, Engineered and Mixed by Iain Petrie
Recorded at Awake Music! Studios in Berwick-upon-Tweed & Spittal during 2013-14, with additional 'field' recordings using the Awake Music! mobile studio at The Bridge Hotel, Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 11th December 2014
Mastered by Garry Boyle at Slate Room Studio, Pencaitland, April 2015
Original artwork, design & layout by Helen Temperley at Winkin' Bitsy
Interlinking text written and compiled by Keith Armstrong and Gary Miller
