Restoration Tragedy Package, by Attila the Stockbroker & Barnstormer 1649

Restoration Tragedy Package

by Attila the Stockbroker & Barnstormer 1649

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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
It's Bandcamp Friday the day before the national nonsense, so here is my contribution: 'Restoration Tragedy', my 2018 album with my band Barnstormer 1649 about the English Revolution - the radical events following the execution of Charles 1 and establishment of the Commonwealth in 1649.

You get it in three formats, double LP, CD and digital, plus 2 facsimile badges of the first shilling to be produced in 1649 after the monarchy was abolished - the king had no head so the coin didn't either! Album and CD have foldout sleeve/booklet respectively explaining the historical context of each song with illustrations from the time.

Songs about Ranters, Diggers and Levellers, Ranters' leader Abiezer Coppe, the flight of Charles II through Shoreham Port after the battle of Worcester, New Model Army leader Thomas Rainsborough (or is it Justin Sullivan?) the betrayal of the Revolution by Cromwell and a beautiful funeral march for Cromwell written by my wide Robina. 58 minutes combining early music and punk on traditional instruments from the time - without doubt the best musical work I have ever done.

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I tried to upload the beautiful gatefold artwork but my computer told me my images were either too large or too small, I find technical stuff really hard, and after 45 mins I gave up! :) You can see it at www.attilathestockbroker.com/merch.php

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16 page booklet with all lyrics, historical explanations and illustrations/photos. (The cover image is the same as the vinyl. This is a picture of the CD itself, a facsimile of the first 'headless' coin minted in 1649 after the execution of Charles I.)

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1.	The Levellers' Trilogy 07:58	buy track
2.	Wellingborough & Wigan 04:16	buy track
3.	The Monarch's Way 06:27	buy track
4.	Abiezer Coppe 05:32	buy track
5.	The Battle of Worcester 04:57	buy track
6.	The Man With The Beard 02:43	buy track
7.	Pride's Purge 02:39	buy track
8.	Harrison 04:20	buy track
9.	Burford Requiem 01:44	buy track
10.	The Voice 02:26	buy track
11.	The Fisherman's Tale 03:13	buy track
12.	Lord Protector 03:42	buy track
13.	Cromwell's Funeral 03:45	buy track
14.	Robina 03:21	buy track

about

In September 2018 Attila and his band Barnstormer 1649 released their unique album ‘Restoration Tragedy’.
Barnstormer 1649 aim to do with early music & punk what the Pogues did with Irish music & punk - but with a strong historical and political message. Leader, poet and multi-instrumentalist Attila the Stockbroker, describes their sound as ‘Roundhead Renaissancecore and Baroque ‘n’ Roll’.

Attila has always loved early music and plays a lot of the instruments – crumhorn, cornemuse, rauschpfeife, shawm, bombarde and five different recorders as well as violin, viola , mandola and mandocello. A lifelong socialist and activist, he has always been fascinated by the radical movements which exploded at the end of the English Civil War and the execution of Charles 1 - radicals who can be described as the first English socialists. And his songs are inspired both musically and lyrically by the events of that tumultuous time. So instruments and ideas fit together: they are from the same period.

The songs are mostly based around the time at the end of the war, after the King was beheaded and, in the words of a ballad of the time, the world turned upside down. Previously marginal ideas of social justice and equality spread across the land. Barnstormer’s songs are about the Diggers, the Levellers, the Ranters and their leader Abiezer Coppe, the radical factions of the New Model Army and their confrontation with Cromwell’s grandees. There is an epic piece about the narrow escape of Charles 11 after the Battle of Worcester in 1651 in a coal boat which sailed from the spot where Attila has fished all his life in Shoreham Port, 400 yards from his front door. (If he’d been caught, we’d probably be spending more money on the NHS now instead of the Royal Family!)There are some earlier references to Wat Tyler and the Peasants’ Revolt as well.

And all with an eye on what‘s happening now, which is essential. Attila has written a couple of very modern early music songs too. One’s about a visionary with a beard and the initials JC!

History is mainly presented as the story of kings, queens and nobles but real history is about us and our battles for justice. As our country becomes more and more divided along class and generational lines, and the extremes of wealth and poverty become even more sharply defined, we can learn a lot from the events of the past.

Although their politics are similar, there’s one very important difference between Barnstormer and the Roundheads though. Some Roundheads, apparently, thought drinking beer, dancing and having fun was evil. Attila and Barnstormer think it should be obligatory.

BARNSTORMER are
M.M.McGHEE – drums
COOKIE – bass, backing vocals
JASON PEGG – guitar, backing vocals
TIM O’TAY - recorders
ATTILA – vocals, mandola, mandocello, violin, viola, recorders, rauschpfeife, crumhorn, cornemuse, shawm

credits

released June 16, 2020

BARNSTORMER 1649 are
M.M.McGHEE – drums
COOKIE – bass, backing vocals
JASON PEGG – guitar, backing vocals
TIM O’TAY - recorders
ATTILA – vocals, mandola, mandocello, violin, viola, recorders, rauschpfeife, crumhorn, cornemuse, shawm

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Attila the Stockbroker Southwick, UK

Attila the Stockbroker. 40 years of hard hitting social surrealist spoken word and punk rock tinged with early music. 8 books of poetry, autobiography, 40 CDs/LPs, 3500 gigs in 24 countries...a long life earning his living doing what he loves. 'Heart on my Sleeve', a 40th anniversary LP is just out, and his Collected Works will be published by Cherry Red Books later this year. ... more

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