The Time Bandits
Thursday July 24th - 7.45pm - 10pm St. John's Church - £6.00
They were a great hit at last year’s Fringe, sharing the bill with De Develski. This year they have the evening to themselves - and that will hardly scratch the surface of their repertoire. The well-established Time Bandits - a ‘60s tribute band - except it’s the 1460s, the 1560s and the 1660s - perform Anglo-European folk and early renaissance dance music with violin, cello, melodeon, flute, bagpipes, recorders, whistles, electric and acoustic basses, mandolin, bouzouki, cittern, bouzar, hurdy gurdy and vocals.
Their current repertoire includes European early music and Renaissance dance tunes, including material from ‘Dansereye’, published by Tielman Susato in 1551, ‘Terpsichore’, a collection of popular European dance music published by Michael Praetorius in 1612, and John Playford’s Dancing Master, first published in 1651.
The band also plays a broad selection of contemporary Anglo-European material. A small, but growing, proportion of their music is self written.
