Les Barker

The zaniness of Monty Python as well as the Goon Present is fused with poetic, Edward Lear-like inanity by Uk poet and songwriter Les Barker. Although his 57 books of poetry possess presented such off-the-wall individuals as Jason & the Quarrels, Cosmo the Pretty Accurate Blade Thrower, and Captain Indecisive, Barker provides proved as eccentric using the music that he’s created for his group, Mrs. Ackroyd’s Music group. A previous accountant, Barker is becoming among England’s strangest songwriters. His music have been included in Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick and June Tabor, while his documenting of “Dachshunds With Erections Can’t Climb Stairways” was a popular from the Dr. Demento radio present. An record of Barker’s folk opera, The Rocks of Callanish, was documented by Lesley Davies, June Tabor, Fiona Simpson, Cathy-Ann MacPhee, Fishing rod Paterson, Jim Sutherland, Phil Cunningham and Savourna Stevenson in 1989. Mrs. Ackroyd’s Music group, which Barker produced with Alison Younger, Leslie Davies and Chris Harvey, produced their debut on the six plan series, Mrs. Ackroyd Explores Up Her Root base, broadcast by BBC’s Radio 2. The group, which took its name from a puppy that journeyed with Barker until 1988, is frequently augmented at celebrations by Martin Carthy and Norma and Eliza Waterson. Davies still left the group in 1996. Hilary Spencer of Artisan toured using the music group in 1997. The debut record of Mrs. Ackroyd’s Music group, The Mrs. Ackroyd Rock’N’Roll Display, presented musical accompaniment by rock-band Quiet Riot.