photo - Peter Morlok

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A FEW GUEST LINKS BELOW AND ON THE CENTRE OF THE PAGE FOR YOU TO VISIT
- in no particular order -

Alistair Russell

Phil Shackleton

Maartin Allcock

Web Design - Tommy Randell

The Working Party

Ricky Medlock (photographer)

John Kirkpatrick

Bryan Ledgard (photographer)

Flossie Malavialle

Richard Grainger



Roland FR7






Below are a couple of
not-very-serious pics
by Bryan Ledgard

Sultans by the River Sid
photo - Bryan Ledgard




with Richard Grainger @ Whitby
photo Maria Silmon

EMAIL CONTACT
for Chris Parkinson

UPDATED 24 January 2012

The Sultans Of Squeeze
are still available .... contact me on this website or John Kirkpatrick on his website.

We're looking forward to hearing from you.


Here are two quotes from some of the people who were in the audience at The Royal Oak in Lewes in Jan '09 .......

"Well, it was a FANTASTIC night - JK & CP were absolutely superb! I'm
playing their album as I write this..."

"What a cracker!
I've seen them both before
lots of times but never together.
What a double act! So funny, so musical."


The piano accordion video tutor for absolute beginners from The Music Room has now been
re-launched on DVD.
All the videos have now been sold but there are still people who want to learn to play piano accordion.
Click on the Music Room link on this page.

There is a live CD from Steve Phillips & The Rough Diamonds. It was recorded during various Tuesday night sessions down at The Grosvenor Hotel in Robin Hood's Bay, so we decided to call it The Grosvenor Sessions.
I'm playing the Roland FR7 * on most of the tracks and a few on my trusty Roland JV80 keyboard.

Most recent appearances of the FR7 * have been on the new albums by Ralph McTell, Steve Tilston and Pete Morton. See Discography page. Before that I was fortunate to get the opportunity to play on a couple of tracks of Joe Longthorne's new album which was due for release to coincide with his 2008 UK tour. I was in a studio near Blackpool for that recording session.


The Working Party.
This is the brainchild of former "Wonderstuff" member Martin Bell.
It was really good to be involved in this educational project & I'm sure it will prove to be a valuable resource to lots of aspiring musicians in the future.
The line-up of this band features Maartin Allcock, Troy Donockley, Chris Leslie, Simon Mayer & myself.
The CD of the concert is now out.
It's entitled "Live at The Mill."
The music session downloads are now available direct from The Working Party.

 

The FR7 * is a 120 bass, full size instrument.
There are over 30 different accordion types plus orchestral instruments within this very impressive bit of kit. It looks like an accordion, sounds like one, plays like one, but doesn't have any reeds.

I use it all the time with Steve Phillips & The Rough Diamonds. No feedback problems, enough volume to compete with drums, bass & guitars.

It has now had an upgrade to it's software.
Operating system version 2 has now been installed which enables orchestral sounds to be played on the bass chord buttons.
For example you can have saxophone on the treble side, and orchestral string bass on on the bass side plus sax section playing chords. Really good in band situations. There was a feature on the FR7 and others in the FR virtual accordion series in a back edition of fRoots.

< A REMINDER NOT TO MISS >

Pete Morton & Maggie Boyle trio

Alistair Russell & Chris Parkinson

"The Sultans Of Squeeze" a duo
with John Kirkpatrick.




Now ......... the mention of me being on stage at a very early age - (see Biography page) It was at Haslingden Public Hall, Rossendale, Lancashire, during February 1956 in a production of the pantomime Jack And The Beanstalk. I was dressed in a cowboy suit that I got for Christmas a few weeks earlier.
All my relatives were suffering intense levels of stress at the time. Me? No, not at all, I don't think a kid of five (almost 6 ) in 1956 got stress, that was just for the old people. There is a small photo of me on the front of the Parky CD, 2nd one up, left hand side. In fact, all the pics are of me at various stages of musical development right through from 1955 up to about 1997. The photos were all saved by my mother including a few press cuttings. The CD design was by my old chum Bryan Ledgard.
I played a radio hit of the day"The Man From Laramie" & maybe the "Irish Washer Woman" too on a Hohner harmonica that was also a Christmas present along with the cowboy suit.
Snappy dresser or what?






A Beer In Albania.

This is for all the people who enjoy a cold beer in a hot climate.



Two holiday beers in Crete.

Cheers!















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GALLERY
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with Ralph McTell
photo - Mark Tucker


Steve Phillips & The Rough Diamonds
L to R;- Steve, Kev Butler, Phil Moore,
Chris Parkinson & Jack Gibson




The John Wright Band 2002
photo - Peter Morlok (I think)


with Norma Waterson
& Martin Carthy


Simpson, Carthy & Parkinson
photo - Bryan Ledgard



with Alistair Russell
photo - Stuart Trumper



with John Kirkpatrick at Sidmouth
photo - Bryan Ledgard




with Martin Carthy in Venice,
Grand Canal in background
photo - Eliza Carthy