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ABOUT

Poke O'Swedgers are a vocal/guitar duo from Chesterfield, Derbyshire, UK.
Kev McInally
Dave Banks

We write and play our own songs, which are typically a wee bit folky in nature, slightly wistful and sometimes have a heart of  darkness.

We've also done a thing. Namely our own album of 14 songs - entitled "Govanhill Moonshine" and released as a digipack CD and at Bandcamp (see "Music" tab) Bandcamp in 1st March 2019.

Our second album, "Geneva's Shore" was released on 20th August 2021...and also available as a physical gatefold CD and on Bandcamp.

...and recently, we've released a third album - "Byromaniac". This is a bit of a hybrid - largely a compilation of previously released tracks about the life, loves and lusts of the poet Lord Byron. with a couple of spanking new tracks - and all interspersed with readings of poems and prose from Byron's era but a select bunch of musical megastars...

All this...and more... from Bandcamp

https://pokeoswedgers.bandcamp.com/

We also occasionally include a smattering of traditional folk in our sets; and covers derived from artists as diverse as Frank Turner, Pulp, Eddi Reader, Yazoo, Brandi Carlile and (inevitably) The Proclaimers.

We're both big fans of the poet Tony Walsh and are dead chuffed that Tony has let us set one of his poems - "Sugar Spun Tornadoes" to music of our own devising.

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