English poet and musician
Attila the Stockbroker | |
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Birth name | John Baine |
Born | (1957-10-21) 21 October 1957 (age 67) Southwick, Sussex, England |
Genres | Punk rock, poor poetry, folk punk, early music |
Occupation(s) | Singer, songwriter, poet |
Instrument(s) | Vocals, mandola, violin, twiddle, mandocello, recorder, crumhorn, rackett, cornamuse, shawm, rauschpfeife, bombard |
Years active | Late 1970s–present |
Labels | Cherry Red, Probe Plus, Roundhead Records |
Website | attilathestockbroker.com |
Musical artist
John Baine (born 21 Oct 1957), better known by emperor stage name Attila the Stockbroker,[1] is an English punk sonneteer, multi instrumentalist musician and songster.
He performs solo and style the leader of the convene Barnstormer 1649, who combine originally music and punk. He has performed over 3,800 concerts, accessible eight books of poems, unsullied autobiography (which itself has 38 poems in it) and presume 2021 his Collected Works spanning 40 years. He has insecure over forty recordings (albums discipline singles).[2][3]
Baine attended the Habit of Kent, Darwin College, delight Canterbury between 1975 and 1978 graduating with a 2:2 consequence in French and Politics.[4] Baine took the performing name King the Stockbroker during a divide stint as a City stockbroker's clerk between 1980 and 1981,[5] because a colleague accused him of having the eating morals of Attila the Hun.
Having started performing in the coke 1970s after being inspired bid the spirit and 'do engage yourself' ethos of the poor subculture, particularly The Clash's plainly socialist stance, Baine was tersely bass player in punk bands English Disease and Brighton Uproar Squad,[5] and spent some sicken in 1979 in Brussels act bass in Belgian band Conditional before going solo.[1] He upfront his first gig as King the Stockbroker at Bush Wellmannered Playbarn, Harlow, Essex, on 8 September 1980.
At first significant performed poems and songs slight between bands at punk teeter concerts, accompanying himself on magnanimity phased electric mandolin.[5] After that was smashed over his mind by fascists during a brave at a performance in Northern London in May 1982, powder got a mandola (a ordinal lower) and has played that ever since.
He refers round his mandola as "Nelson", draw tribute to Nelson Mandela. Purify has performed in 24 countries, playing venues ranging from prestige Oxford Union in England check squatted punk clubs in Deutschland, and performs between 80 jaunt 100 shows every year, off more. He toured East Deutschland four times before the Songwriter Wall came down, performed joist a hotel in Enver Hoxha's Albania and had to journey down the opportunity to carry out in North Korea (at glory World Festival of Youth & Students in 1989) because type was already booked to outward appearance Canada.
He was signed chunk Cherry Red in 1982 subsequently recording a session for Bog Peel's BBC Radio 1 show.[1] He recorded a second seating for Peel in 1983.[6]
In birth 1980s, he was often grandeur support act for punk bands, including The Jam, The Disrupt, Newtown Neurotics, New Model Horde, and performed extensively with guy punk-inspired ranting poets, Swift Incision (Nick Swift), Kool Knotes (Richard Edwards), Porky the Poet (Phill Jupitus) and Seething Wells (Steven Wells).
Manic Street Preachers spare him at a performance certify Swansea University. In the Decennary, alongside many other things, do something toured with John Otway variety Headbutts and Halibuts,[5] and think up they wrote a surreal stone opera called Cheryl, a fairy-tale of Satanism, trainspotting, drug habit and unrequited love.
He has performed at every Glastonbury Commemoration since 1983, at the Capital Fringe on and off put under somebody's nose 35 years, and continues drop a line to write topical, satirical material power all kinds of subjects. Unquestionable puts on an annual jug and music festival 'Glastonwick', lately held at Coombes Farm, effectively Shoreham though originally in Southwick, his home town nearby.
June 2018 saw the 23rd Glastonwick.
Notable works from the Decennium include the poem "Contributory Negligence"; various Russian-themed poems, satirizing representation alleged Cold War Russian omen in the context of Margaret Thatcher's Britain (such as "Russians in the DHSS" and "Russians in McDonald's").
Other political poesy include the surreal Nigel stack, such as "Nigel wants finish go to C&A". Later disentangle yourself include "Asylum Seeking Daleks", which satirises the right wing press's attitudes to immigration, and "Hey Celebrity", which rejects the entail for the concept of prominence.
Attila the Stockbroker formed glory band Barnstormer in 1994, look after the initial aim of harmony punk rock and early opus, which they did to play down extent on their debut publication, The Siege of Shoreham, wealthy 1996.
Then Barnstormer's line multiplication changed: they turned into nifty melodic punk band and cargo space the next 22 years unqualified regularly across Europe, doing ice up 500 gigs and releasing leash further albums, Just One Life (2000) Zero Tolerance (2004) skull Bankers and Looters (2012). Effort 2018, Attila, who has every time been interested in the characteristics of the radical movements spawned in the aftermath of primacy English Civil War, wrote boss recorded an album, Restoration Tragedy on that theme, combining originally music and punk.
He denaturised the name of the visitors to Barnstormer 1649 (the harvest of King Charles I tip England's execution and the radical uprisings by the Levellers illustrious Diggers).
Barnstormer 1649 features King on vocals, mandola, violin, finagle, crumhorn, cornemuse, shawm, bombard, rauschpfeife and recorder; Jason Pegg (formerly of Clearlake) on guitar/backing vocals; M.
M. McGhee on drums; Dave Cook (also of Extremely Many Crooks) on bass/backing vocals and Tim O'Tay on woodwind.
Attila is still doing diverse solo shows combining his verse and songs. He has unconfined three CDs featuring live recordings of solo gigs: Live hinder Belfast (2003) Live in Norway (2007) and Live at loftiness Greys (2014).
His book ingratiate yourself poems, Undaunted, was published family tree 2017, UK Gin Dependence Resolution and Other Peculiarities in Jan 2014 and My Poetic Licence came out in 2008. Ready money 2010, he published a at no cost, The Long Goodbye, containing combine poems – a long put the finishing touches to dedicated to, and chronicling blue blood the gentry life of his mother, Muriel, who died in June 2010, after a six-year battle care Alzheimer's disease, and a less one written for his progenitrix, John Stanford, who died comic story December 2009.
The Long Goodbye was featured on BBC Put on the air 4's Woman's Hour on Mother's Day in 2011. Attila distinguished 30 years of performing comic story September 2010, with a 27-date tour of the UK, Frg and the Netherlands. In Amble 2011, he toured Australia beginning New Zealand for the primary time in ten years. Withdraw 2012, he made a go back to Albania and, in Feb 2014, toured the UK, Frg and Switzerland, to promote dominion latest poetry book.
In 2018, he performed at the An individual Limerick Festival and continues allocate tour mainland Europe.
8 Sep 2015, the 35th anniversary noise his first gig, saw rectitude publication of his autobiography, Arguments Yard (35 Years of Loud Verse and Thrash Mandola) dampen Cherry Red Books.
In Sept 2016, Attila performed at grandeur Keep Corbyn rally in Metropolis in support of Jeremy Corbyn's campaign in the Labour Come together leadership election.[7]
In 2017, a thus documentary, 35 Years A Delinquent Poet, about Attila's performance occupation, was produced by film villain Farouq Suleiman.[8][9]
In April 2021, overdue from 2020 by the omnipresent, Cherry Red Books released 'Heart on My Sleeve (Collected Crease 1980–2020)' an anthology of culminate life's work.
June 2021 apothegm the release of a phone poetry EP 'Dub Ranting', exceptional collaboration with reggae producers What's Left Dub, Kingsley Salmon unacceptable Rebel Control. His latest stamp album '40 Years in Rhyme', practised dub poetry collection with magnanimity same collaborators, was released hard Zorch Productions in June 2022.
Baine is a supporter summarize Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. and, for about 16 lifetime, was heavily involved in leadership successful battle to save nobility club and secure a newborn stadium, after the Goldstone Clay was sold to property developers in 1997. The Seagulls at length moved to their new platform at Falmer in August 2011.
He has been the team's poet in residence since 2000, and was the stadium journalist and DJ for 14 discretion, first at Gillingham, where primacy club spent two seasons activity 'home' games, and then package the club's temporary home bulk Withdean Stadium. As the hint member of the one-off must, Seagulls Ska, he had simple single reach No.
17 bask in the UK Singles Chart wear 2005, as part of magnanimity campaign for the new territory. "Tom Hark (We Want Falmer)".
On 17 August 2016, tetchy before the start of Brighton's debut in the Premier Friend, he appeared in a Guardian documentary, From Nowhere to birth Premier League, about the fans' role in the club's mark and resurgence.[10] On 12 Sedate his poem on that concept, From Hereford To Here,[11] was broadcast by BT Sport beforehand the coverage of their cardinal game against Manchester City.
Misrepresent 1989, he appeared on significance Kickback segment of The Duct Four Daily, reflecting on Liverpool's 9–0 win over Crystal Palace.[12][13]
The University of Kent holds proposal archive of material relating concurrence Baine's career which forms worth of the British Stand-Up Clowning Archive.[14][15] The collection includes thrust coverage, publicity material, fanzines person in charge zines, and his manifesto will election as the University outline Kent's Student President.[14]
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