IT CONTINUES HERE WITH FOOTDRUMS, A RUSTY 1935 RESONATOR GUITAR CALLED HYACINTH, HARMONICAS AND AN AMP.

WITH TRADITIONAL SONGS AND ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS WE CREATE A WORLD WHERE GHOSTS ARE ALWAYS NEAR.

GRAVEYARD BOOGIES, ROCK THAT ROLLS, MIDNIGHT HOLLERS AND SWING NOIR.

THESE SOUNDS ARE INFLUENCED BY ONE MAN BANDS SUCH AS; 

JOE HILL LEWIS, BOG LOG III, HASIL ADKINS, JESSE FULLER, DUSTER BENNETT AND DR ISIAH ROSS.

BUT ALSO ARTISTS LIKE;

TOM WAITS, BLIND BOY FULLER, TEARS FOR FEARS, CARL PERKINS, ROBERT JOHNSON, THE STOOGES, CW STONEKING, NICK CAVE, JOY DIVISION, ELMORE JAMES, THE CARTER FAMILY AND THE RAMONES.

A VISIT TO SUN RECORDING STUDIOS IN MEMPHIS IN 2006 STARTED ALL THIS...

A LOVE OF THE SUN RECORDS ONE MAN BAND JOE HILL LEWIS CAME FROM A COMPILATION CD BOUGHT THAT DAY.

THEN CAME THE CHALLENGE OF TRYING TO PLAY GUITAR AND DRUMS SIMULTANEOUSLY LIKE HE DID (WITH A £20 VICTORIAN MARCHING DRUM FROM LEEDS’ THURSDAY FLEA MARKET).

YEARS OF PLAYING IN OTHER ACTS GOT IN THE WAY;

HOT DEAD FOX, GENTLEMANS PISTOLS, SAM BARRETT, EUCLID AVENUE, THE OLD TIME STRING BAND CAME AND WENT WHILST PAYING THE BILLS WITH WASHBOARD RESONATORS AND LEEDS CITY STOMPERS.

2019 SAW THE FIRST ONE MAN BAND GIGS AND THE FIRST ORIGINAL ALBUM, ‘SONGS OF DEATH AND LOVE.’ 

RECORDED AND RELEASED IN 2020 WITH SONGS LIKE; ‘DARK SPIRITS,’ ‘TREAD LIGHTLY AS YOU LEAVE,’ AND ‘WHEN KISSES HURT.’

AFTER YEARS OF GIGS LIKE; THE FESTIVAL OF VINTAGE YORK, GREEN NOTE LONDON, LINCOLN JAZZ CAFE, DOMINO CLUB LEEDS AND A UK TOUR WITH CANADIAN RAGTIMERS ‘THE VAUDEVILLIAN,’ MARTYN LOOKS FORWARD TO MAKING MORE MUSIC AND LIVE SHOWS.

"THE ONLY PERSON TO GET A STANDING OVATION,"

MARK, BLETCHLEY BLUES CLUB

"ACROSS TWELVE CAPTIVATING TRACKS HE INNOVATES TO CREATE A NEW SPACE FOR SONGS OF UNREQUITED LOVE, HAUNTED WANDERINGS AND JOYOUS HOLLERS,"

ALDORA RECORDS, INDEPENDENT FANZINE

"SUPERB GUITAR PLAYING WITH A NOD TO TRADITIONAL BLUES,"

JOHN HARRIS, BLUES IN THE NIGHT, HERMITAGE FM