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In All Kinds Of Disorder, Nick combines talents with Jon Sevink, fiddler and composer for folk-rock band The Levellers, on a unique album of spoken word, music and effects.

 

 

 

 

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A live album of Nick Burbridge's songs is also available: McDermott's Two Hours - Live At Ferneham Hall, which, like other albums, critics have taken to their hearts. Copies are obtainable by contacting this website.

"as much a sampler for the consistency and strength of Nick's writing as anything else...for the McDermotts novice who might've wondered why critics have been raving about them, but also a memento for the cognoscenti. It's the sheer energy and drive - if all folk-rock were like this, then the beast wouldn't be lumbering along half-dead in cosy parentheses on the Mike Harding programme would it? - the unbridled atmosphere of the McDermotts gig...this record's a stonker"
(David Kidman, netrhythms) - read the full review

"While the D.I.Y.-ish cover of Live at Ferneham Hall gives the appearance of a bootleg there is nothing bootleg or D.I.Y.-ish about either the music or production on this superb live CD from one of the most influential Celtic-folk-rock bands of the 80's (ask The Levellers). If you're unfamiliar with past works of this Brighton, England based Anglo-Irish quintet then think Bragg, Moore (Christy of course), Strummer and of course MacGowan and the Pogues and not as mere imitators but as peers." (shite'n'onions)

Listen to an MP3 of Fox On The Run from the live album [hosted at greenmanreview.com. You can also read an interview by Cat Eldridge at Green Man Review]

In another welcome development, a McDermott's Two Hours section has been added to the Alternative Levellers Message Board.

Look out for Nick's article, 'Road Trip' in Songbook, Issue 8, and his piece on Goodbye To The Madhouse in the June 2007 Issue of Rock'n'Reel. He appears on the Levellers' Live DVD Chaos Theory, playing with them at Buxton Opera House in 2004. And his song Prisoner, was one of the B sides on Make U Happy. Gigs are few and far between right now, but happen when commitments and incapacities allow.

McDERMOTT'S TWO HOURS v LEVELLERS: DISORDER
The third collaborative effort produced with members of The Levellers, this album is a deeply articulate, compelling journey through political and personal disorder, where traditional and contemporary music vigorously embrace. Among deft arrangements for fiddle, whistle, concertina, trumpet, guitars, bass and percussion, an unnervingly passionate voice calls to be heard. The album has earned emphatic praise from the press, as well as the likes of Maggie Boyle, who covers one song, 'The Old Man's Retreat', as part of her live set.

'Burbridge's cleverest piece yet - a work of thought and guile, no mistake.' (Simon Jones, fRoots)
'Rousing, politically scathing words put to music that you can't help but sit up and take notice of. One of the finest musical collections that I have heard this year.' (folking.com)
'I can honestly predict that, just as Claws And Wings was one of my albums of 2003, so will Disorder turn out to be one of the highlights of 2004. Absolutely bloody brilliant!' (netrhythms.co.uk)

Read an interview about Disorder for FolkWorld magazine. (http://www.folkworld.de/29/e/mcdermot.html)

Disorder is available at all major record stores and through the Levellers website (www.levellers.co.uk) and at cdbaby.com (http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/m2hvl)

POETRY AND PROSE

Poems continue to be published in magazines including Ambit, Agenda, Acumen, Other Poetry, Smith's Knoll, Envoi, Orbis, and Poetry Nottingham.
A pamphlet edition of the best poems, All Kinds of Disorder, has been published by Waterloo Press, complete with a five track sampler CD of Nick reading with music and effects from Leveller Jon Sevink. The book and CD can be ordered from this site or The Levellers'.

-Ben Burbridge