Welcome to the Swarb's Lazarus Website
Last updated Friday 25th April 2008

Swarb's Lazarus is a trio featuring the legendary English fiddler Dave Swarbrick (ex-Fairport Convention, ex-Whippersnapper), known affectionately as Swarb, ace guitarist Kevin Dempsey (ex-Whippersnapper) and multi-instrumentalist Maartin Allcock (ex-Fairport Convention, ex-Jethro Tull). Swarb's Lazarus play mostly traditional music of the British Isles.

Swarb received a new pair of lungs in October 2004 after years of debilitating emphysema which left him at death's door a few times, but he wasn't quite ready to fulfil his premature obituary which was published in the Daily Telegraph in April 1999...

All the photographs on this website by Bryan Ledgard unless otherwise stated and copyright

We now have a new agent, Adastra, and we look forward to working with Chris Wade. Many thanks are of course due to Steve Sheldon for getting us up and running - we are eternally grateful. Steve has now gone back to his proper job.

UK dates in October and February 2009 coming in now.
See tour dates page...

WHIPPERSNAPPER REUNION DATES NOW IN
Whippersnapper, the band that both Swarb and Kev played with in the 1980s and 1990s, are reforming for five special reunion dates this summer. Chris Leslie will be taking time out from Fairport Convention and Martin Jenkins will be visiting from his home in Bulgaria.

LIVE ALBUM

Live And Kicking

NOW AVAILABLE

This live album marks the legendary fiddler Dave Swarbrick's triumphant return to the stage after seven years, after a life-threatening illness, a life-saving operation and a life-affirming recovery, recorded at four special performances in Spring 2006, together with guitarist Kevin Dempsey and multi-instrumentalist Maartin Allcock.

The album also features a whole extra CD ROM section which you can locate if you put your CD into your computer, including extra photographs, printable sheet music, song lyrics and even a T-shirt design which you can print out onto iron-on paper to make your own T-shirts. Unfortunately I forgot to resize the T-shirt designs, so you'll need to set "fit to page" on your printer preferences and print it landscape. Test it on a sheet of plain paper first. There's no need to mirror the images as they are already reversed.

Orders now being taken at the shop
or by cheque for £14.50 (including postage & packing) and made out to Squiggle Records to:
Squiggle Records, PO Box 31, Harlech, LL46 2WQ, Wales.

Swarb's Lazarus Live And Kicking is now available in the shops in the UK, distributed by Proper, but if you order it direct from us we get more of a cut...

Website by Maartin Allcock, with thanks to Desi, Paul and Brian at www.egenica.com

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