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The News of the Victory
Barn dance and ceilidh band
Electric ceilidh for the mind and body

Our other bass players

the band bass drums guitar keyboards violin


Keith Tyrrell
- long a stalwart of East Anglia's folk rock scene. Great bass player, formerly with The Lucys, The Mark Fawcett Band, The Kesh and others Keith joins us from East Suffolk and plays bass and guitar in a number of local (to him) folk and folk rock bands as well as providing music for a local morris side. He's also a fine engineer who has designed and made a number of useful musical contraptions for members of the band. Keith has a very exciting and sensible bass backline rig that looks like it belongs in the cockpit of a jumbo jet with its beautiful array of lights and controls.

 


Keith

Robin Houchen - a graduate of the West Norfolk music scene of the 60s and 70s, Robin was a regular member of the band throughout the nineties until work (most of us had proper jobs in those days!) took him off to Essex. We feared he was lost forever until rumours started circulating that he had been seen back in King's Lynn. Robin made a triumphant return to The NotV in the autumn of 2008 when we played at the Arts Centre in Stamford.

 

Jon Balmforth - a groovy funkmeister, fine slapbass merchant and owner of some of the weirdest bass instruments you've ever seen. Leads File Under Funk and plays also in Malecon. Peterborough based Indian Summer is Jon's primary band.
Jon

Mark Burrows - aircraft technician turned musician Mark is a very accomplished bass player. You'll know when Mark is playing; he's the quiet one in the corner laying down the groove and filling in the spaces. Mark played with the Mark Fawcett Band and, for a few months, in a floating band cruising round Europe's shores on a Portuguese registered ship. I don't think the ship sank, but we haven't heard from him for a while!

Mark, shy and "borrowed" from MySpace

Previous bass players have included David Prestidge*, Malcolm Paton, Geoff Clifford, David Sheppard, Daniel Steel*,