Simon Mayor 'Of Death And A Banana Skin' (Book)

Simon Mayor's (https://simonmayor.com) first anthology of poems and anecdotes, illustrated by Hilary James and with Augmented Reality is now available to purchase from http://www.acousticsrecords.co.uk/poe...

“It was Hilary James who first persuaded me to read a poem during a concert. I chose The Stick, and people seemed to like it. For years we had performed together on stage, she singing (mostly), me playing (mostly), but we both did both. This was usually as a duo, but also with our mandolin quartet The Mandolinquents and in other occasional configurations. Perhaps I’ll be more specific about my poems and her means of persuasion. She got me in an armlock, twisted it violently up my back before threatening to push it that extra inch to tear the tendons, thus preventing me from playing the mandolin ever again. SAS training is so rigorous it becomes instinctive. The thought of not playing the mandolin was unthinkable, but after thinking about it, I thought it best to succumb, and just a few years later here is Of Death And A Banana Skin.”

About Simon Mayor
Simon Mayor is one of the world’s leading mandolinists as well as a fine fiddle player, guitarist, composer and humorist. His live performances are a riot of humorous anecdotes and off-the-cuff wit alongside dazzling musicianship and, more recently, poetry.
See more: https://simonmayor.com/about/

About Hilary James
Hilary James gained a BA (hons) in Fine Art from Reading University in the 1970s and went on to complete a Postgraduate Certificate of Education.

She subsequently followed a career in music (possessed of ‘one of Britain’s finest voices’ – BBC Radio 4) and has recorded five solo albums, most recently English Sketches. She follows a busy international touring schedule.

She is also a fine instrumentalist, self-taught on double bass and guitar, and famously featuring with her amazing mandobass in the Mandolinquents, Britain’s first modern mandolin quartet.
See more: https://folksong.co.uk/biography/art-...