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Banjax was a ceilidh dance band based in Hastings, Sussex. The band was active during the 1990s.
Banjax was formed in the late 1980s in Hastings. Its members were drawn from the local Mad Jack's Morris and formed round melodeon player Dave Roberts, previously a member of folk group Blowzabella, who had moved to Hastings to teach at the local college. [1]
The original line-up of eleven musicians was Peter Bolwell, saxophone and recorder; Brian Chainey, drums; Gilly Henry (later Linn), violin and recorder; Dennis Langley, concertina; Keith Leech, trombone; Cliff Mason, bass guitar; Pete Moore, trombone and vocals; Neil Parker, recorder and lead guitar; Lynda Ridley, recorder; Dave Rimmell, rhythm guitar; and Dave Roberts, melodeon and whistle. [2]
In 1989 the band recorded a cassette mini-album of six tracks called "Marbles on the Dance Floor". Cliff Mason left the band after the release of the album, and died of cancer in 1995. He was replaced on bass guitar by rock musician Neil Cartwright. Multi-instrumentalist Ian Miller also briefly played with the band. Dennis Langley left to start his own folk band. [3]
In 1989, Banjax supported Dave Swarbrick's Whippersnapper in a folk music day at Butlins Holiday Camp in Bognor Regis. In 1990 they played at the monthly "Dance House" ceilidh at Cricklade, Wiltshire; at Sidmouth Folk Festival; in Dordrecht in the Netherlands, Hastings' twin town; and at musician and impressario Mel Stevens' Newick ceilidhs in the Hastings area. They performed at the Chippenham Folk Festival in 1991, and in 1992 played in the Jack-in-the-Green folk festival on Hastings pier. [4]
In 1992, the band released a full-length album on CD and cassette, titled "Chaos in One", which received favourable reviews in folk publications in the UK (Folk Roots [5] ) , the US ("Dirty Linen" published in Maryland [6] ) and Australia. Jim Lloyd, presenter of BBC Radio 2's 'Folk on Two', included it in his top ten albums of 1992. The tracks on the album were a mix of styles and periods, including a 16th century tune played in four-part harmony on recorders and, for the first time, songs such as "Blackleg Miner" and "Radcliffe Highway". In 1993 the band played at Towersey Village Festival in Oxfordshire. [7]
Neil Cartwright was replaced on bass guitar by Dave Levett. Violinist Gilly Linn, who had a heart condition, died of a stroke in April 1994 at the age of 43 [8] and was replaced by Diana Moody from The Committee Band. Dave Roberts, who also had a heart condition, died in February 1996 at the age of 48 after playing at a dance in Gloucester. [9] Neil Cartwright rejoined the band on bass. In August 1996 the band played Sidmouth Folk Festival as the closing act; and they played at the Old Town Festival in Hastings and Black Horse Festival at nearby Telham. In spring 1997, Rimmell, Cartwright and Levett left the band and were replaced by Geoff Marchant on rhythm guitar and Rob McCabe on bass. The group disbanded at the end of 1999. [10]
In 2019 one of the tracks from "Chaos in One", "The Thrifty Wife and the Kite", was remixed and reissued in digital format by Keith Leech, the writer of the song, "as a tribute to the band." [11]
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