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.
"This is a highly ambitious piece of art that has been pulled off to perfection" - Most Ambitious Release of 2018, 'Best of 2018' Awards
(Shite 'n' Onions, USA)
"To say that this is a masterpiece is still an understatement"
(FRaME Music)
"A veritable Triumph!"
(RnR Magazine, UK)
"A magnificent piece of work"
(folking.com)
"An extraordinary work"
(FRUK)
Mad Martins is released by Whippet Records (WPTCDB24) and is available to buy direct from our official Shop.
(Also available from official stockist Crown Studio, Rothbury, UK)
Front Cover of Book (designed by Helen Temperley)
Opening Page of Book (designed by Helen Temperley)
Credits
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 (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 & Beleaguered Crew of The Good Ship Hercules' (Richard Doran, 'Glasgow' Jimmy, Frank Meadley, Gary Miller and Iain Petrie; ably led by the 'Bastard Bosun' 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 Helen Temperley
Interlinking text written and compiled by Keith Armstrong and Gary Miller
Select Bibliography / Further Reading
Adams, Max (2009), The Firebringers (later published 2010 as The Prometheans). London, Quercus.
Aylmer, G.E. & Cant, Reginald (1977). A History of York Minster. Oxford University Press.
Balston, Thomas (1945), The Life of Jonathan Martin: Incendiary of York Minster (with some account of William and Richard Martin). London, MacMillan & Co. Ltd.
Balston, Thomas (1947), John Martin. London, Duckworth.
Dickens, Charles (1866), All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal (Volume 16). London, Chapman & Hall.
Johnstone, Christopher (1974), John Martin. London, Academy Editions.
Jones, Keith & Shepherd, Richard & Hampson, Louise (2008). York Minster - A Living Legacy. Third Millenium Publishing Union.
Martin, Jonathan (1826), The Life of Jonathan Martin, of Darlington, Tanner, Written by Himself. Barnard Castle: 2nd edition.
Martin, Jonathan (1829), The Life of Jonathan Martin the Incendiary of York Minster, Written by Himself. Leeds, Robinson, Hermann & Woods: 6th edition.
Martin, Jonathan (1829), The Life of Jonathan Martin, Written by Himself. USA, Nabu Press: Print on Demand 2012.
Martin, William, (1821), William Martin's Challenge to All the World as a Philosopher & Critic, on the Principles of Perpetual Motion. Newcastle upon Tyne: 2nd edition.
Martin, William (1827). A New Philosophical Poem Book, Called The Northumberland Bard, or The Downfall of All False Philosophy. Newcastle upon Tyne, Thomas Blagburn.
Myrone, Martin, (2011), John Martin: Apocalypse. London, Tate Publishing.
Myrone, Martin (ed.), (2011), John Martin: Sketches of My Life. London, Tate Publishing.
Peacock, A.J. (ed.), York History No.2. York, J. Farr & Son.
Pendered, Mary Lucy (1923), John Martin, Painter: His Life And Times. London, Hurst & Blackett.
Feaver, W (1975), The Art of John Martin. Oxford, Clarendon Press.
Martin, William, (1832), The Defeat of Learned Humbugs and the Downfall of All False Philosophers. Wallsend.
Martin, William, (1833), A Short Outline of the Philosopher's Life from being a Child in Frocks to the Present Day after the Defeat of all Imposters, False Philosophers since the Creation. Newcastle upon Tyne.