Green Fortune And here’s the buzz:

“Proper folk rebels!”

-The Giggling Goblin, Ashby de la Zouch

“Green Fortune are an awesome band”

-Ben Brettell, The Maze, Nottingham

“Great songs, excellent style and the coolest looking band…”

-Bruno Gallone

“Unmatchable passion and verve!”

-Ashby Arts Festival

“Astonishing! Breathtaking vocals. Wonderful music; spot-on perfect

arrangements.”

-Sills & Smith, Canada

“Both enjoyable and enchanting to listen to”

-Brewtown Music

“John Peel would’ve loved this band”

-Heart of the Water Radio

Find out more:

www.greenfortune.co.uk

www.facebook.com/greenfortune

www.youtube.com/greenfortuneuk

Contact us: greenfortune@live.co.uk

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2015

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Spring 2010: My Dæmon Lover

(Overheard): Wow! Who the hell was that?

Green Fortune- the story so far…

Green Fortune formed in the summer of 2008 over an Indian meal and a bottle of rum, the idea having been kicked around for some time- a bunch of ageing punks looking for a new direction, trying to find a new way with punk and folk music and a penchant for heathen and pagan themes. Instruments were assembled, songs written, practices and gig rehearsals performed; and the band launched themselves onto an unsuspecting and largely indifferent music scene with a 30 minute set at Nottingham’s Rock at the Lock.

A steady schedule of gigs, recording and video followed with the BBC picking up the film for the first single, the gothic love song My Dæmon Lover for a 6 month stint at the BBC Big Screens in Derby and Leicester. More recording, more gigs, more filming- band members started to tire and began to fade away, to be replaced by new blood, new ideas; at the core the same values- acoustic instruments played with passion, commitment and intent, songs that talk of life and death, love and loss.

Radio play followed, with bigger gigs supporting up and coming artists. Following a radical re-think of direction in 2013 bassist Stiv Høgg was recruited (ex- Thee Deadtime Philharmonic) and formed the current line-up of Mark Knight (vocals & mandola, ex– Mad Dogs), Kay Knight (vocals & percussion, formerly with Damascus Flowers) and Andy Faint (percussion & shruti-box and former drummer with 80s industrial punk band Happy Content).

Moving ahead, they continue to gig and record their music in and around the Midlands and across the country as a whole.

From a recent review in Brewtown Music:

“Green Fortune are raunchy and gritty with punk influences and mature subject matter. Each band member provides and past members have provided a layer of great importance. Not even the bells provided by Kay Knight feel insignificant alongside the bass or the mandola & gritty vocals of Mark Knight. Their music is both enjoyable and enchanting to listen to.

Their songs can range from being about gothic romance (My Daemon Lover) to a rousing sing-along (The Seventh Magpie) all done in the style of a traditional folk band with a punk edge to them along with very interesting arrangements of old punk classics such as the Buzzcocks Ever Fallen In Love and the Stranglers’ hit Golden Brown.

Summarising, Green Fortune provide some good folk variety. Their lyrics tell an interesting tale and their music provides an entertaining backdrop.

Highly recommended for lovers of the Pogues and The Levellers.”

Green Fortune

folk rebels

Mark Knight– vocals, mandola, mandolin, Guitar, Bouzouki

Kay Knight– vocals, percussion, zills, glock

Andy Faint– Drums, percussion, shruti-box

Stiv Høgg, bass Additional musicians & occasional band members:

Rhys Jones– Harmonica

Rhys Knight– drums/ bass

Joy Gravestock-violin

Jonathan Trout- violin

Jon Harper- tenor recorder

John McIvor- hurdy-gurdy

Stefan Seniuk- harp

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