Martin Belmont

Guitarist Martin Belmont began his professional music career because the business lead guitarist for the pub rock-band Ducks Deluxe. The Ducks toured the U.K. continuously during the middle-’70s and released four albums before splitting up in 1975. Belmont shifted to Graham Parker’s support music group, the Rumour. For another five years, he was area of the Rumour, who backed Parker on tour and on his information and also documented three albums independently. Following a Rumour’s disbanding, Belmont performed in supporting tasks for various performers, including on information by Carlene Carter, Paul Carrack, and John Hiatt before ultimately getting the guitarist for Nick Lowe’s middle-’80s group, the Cowboy Clothing. After the Cowboy Clothing bit the dirt, Belmont continued to aid several performers, including an appearance on Billy Bragg’s 1988 record Worker’s Playtime. In the past due ’80s, he documented his only single record, Big Guitar, that was released in the Demon label. Through the ’90s, Belmont silently faded in the spotlight, however in the 2000s, he made an appearance being a sideman on albums by Los Pistoleros and Hank Wangford, and in 2007, he was section of a Ducks Deluxe reunion concert at London’s 100 Membership. The reunion gig resulted in brand-new rounds of documenting and touring for the group, and Ducks Deluxe released the EP Container of Shorts in ’09 2009 as well as the record Side Monitors & Smokers this year 2010. As Ducks Deluxe came back to actions, Belmont released his second single record, 2009’s The Visitor List, which highlighted guest areas from many of his previous mates, including Nick Lowe, Graham Parker, Paul Carrack, and Carlene Carter. In 2012, Graham Parker & the Rumour reunited for an appearance in Judd Apatow’s film THAT IS 40, with Belmont reclaiming his put on guitar, as well as the group proceeded to go into the studio room and cut a fresh recording, Three Chords Great, that arrived the same yr. A global tour adopted, and in 2015 Parker & the Rumour had been back with another reunion set, Secret Glue.