The False Beards

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THE FALSE BEARDS
ben mandelson * ian anderson
Old time english psych folk blues world twangery

Ben Mandelson (baritone bouzouki, mandolin) has a chequered band CV including the legendary 3 Mustaphas 3, Magazine, Orchestra Jazira, Billy Bragg's Blokes, Les Triaboliques and lately the Yiddish Twist Orchestra. Ian Anderson (guitar, slide guitar, vocals) came to fame with Ian Anderson's Country Blues Band in the great UK blues disaster of '68/'69, later working solo (as Ian A. Anderson on the cult Village Thing label) and as a member of Hot Vultures, the English Country Blues Band and Tiger Moth.

Ben and Ian have also played in a few bands together over the past 25 years, from Tiger Moth spin-off Orchestre Super Moth in the 1980s to the album Stubble and a UK tour as the Blue Blokes 3, their trio with PiL's Lu Edmonds, in 2009. But it was only in 2011 that the lightbulb switched on to tell them that they could be a duo, like falling off the proverbial log. And so, The False BeardsŠ

Between them they have a combined back-of-envelope-calculated total of 90+ years of live gigging and 80+ years of recording more than 30 albums in their individual right. So all this experience shines through a repertoire where an English take on old time folk blues might seamlessly segue into a West African melody, an imaginative song from an unlikely source might acquire a Greek flavour, or a traditional murder ballad might head into folkadelia territory - all wrapped up in some virtuoso twanging, a relaxed and witty presentation and dodgy facial hair.

Their debut album Ankle has been receiving lots of great reviews and airplay, and made the Top 20 of World Music Charts Europe.

http://thefalsebeards.bandcamp.com/

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MAGGIE HOLLAND

Singer, guitar and banjo player Maggie Holland was a co-member of Hot Vultures, The English Country Blues Band and Tiger Moth with the False Beards' Ian Anderson in the '70s and '80s, later pursuing a solo career. Her song "A Place Called England" was a BBC Folk Awards song of the year, and other songs of hers have been recorded by June Tabor and Martin Carthy.

http://www.maggieholland.co.uk

KATIE ROSE

Singer and multi-instrumentalist Katie Rose guests on several tracks of the False Beards' Ankle CD. Her own latest musical offering, the CD Empty Cup, from Katie Rose, blends her lifelong fascination with sacred sound with wayward wanderings along the lanes of traditional songs in a combination she lovingly calls 'folk-mantra'.

http://www.facebook.com/katierosewindow