Hobgoblin Music celebrates its 40th anniversary with unique album

Hobgoblin Music

Founded in the autumn of 1976, Hobgoblin Music has turned 40! Hobgoblin Music has been trading in the UK for 40 years across many locations, both in their shops and on their travelling festival stall. Millions of musicians have passed through their doors, and they’ve been lucky enough to employ a great many of the most talented of them. To celebrate their 40th anniversary, they have compiled an album of music by past and present staff, as a follow-up to our 25th anniversary CD 15 years ago

PETE & MANNIE MCCLELLAND Founders of Hobgoblin, Pete and Mannie are still involved, but are now spending more time making music. Pete and Mannie worked in the barn and shop in Crawley, the market stall, the festivals, Pete currently works in the Worthing headquarters. Blackthorn features Pete on Bouzouki & vocals, Mannie on concertina, Sarah Mooney on flute & guitar & Alex Percy (Festivals) on Guitar.

MARK McCABE (Birmingham) Mark’s fine accordion work can be heard on two tracks from The Teds. He’s their Birmingham manager.

SARAH MALLINSON, NICK COLLINS, RUSS FLEMMING (Leeds) ‘Green Grows The Laurel’ was recorded for this album specially by the Leeds shop staff.

CRIS PIERSENNÉ (Bristol) Cris has contributed ‘Ja Vstretil Vas’ by Malarchy and ‘Up Down, Ka Kachar’ by RSVP

MARK WHITE (Crawley) Mark was one of the earliest employees of Hobgoblin, he worked with them from 1978 to 1991.

JACQUELYN HYNES (London) Jacqy worked with us in London in the 90s and 00s, she’s provided two great flute tracks.

NICOLA RAIN (Worthing, Crawley & Festivals) & SARAH MOONEY (Bristol & Festivals) ‘Letters From The Sea’ was written by Nicola and Sarah especially for this album.

GEORGIA LEWIS (Festivals) Georgia is a new arrival on the festival circuit both as an artist and with the Hobgoblin festival stall.

KEN THOMPSON (Manchester) Ken managed the Hobgoblin Manchester from 99 to recently and is a member of the Paddywhacks

DOGAN MEHMET (Worthing) Doe released two albums with Hobgoblin Records and from the first they have included his composition ‘The Raging Seas’.

NEIL CAMPBELL (Brighton) Neil recently joined the staff in Brighton and here we have his track ‘Haggard Rider’.

MIKE ROSS (Brighton) Hobgoblin Brighton manager Mike Ross joined in 2014 –featured is his blues number ‘Fixin’ To Die’.

OLLIE KING (Leeds) Ollie King has been a member of the Leeds team for the last few years and featured is one of his own compositions, ‘Polperro Bay’, from his first album.

JOHN RAIN (Worthing) John works with in the Worthing head office, and is a member of Montana Rain band along with Nicola Rain and Pete McClelland, this is the band’s signature song.

ALEX PERCY (Festivals) Alex Percy worked for the Hobgoblin festival team over a number of years from the 00’s till recently. He’s a member of The Long Notes and the Blackthorn Band among other projects.

PIP IVES (Canterbury) Pip is a stalwart of the Hobgoblin Canterbury shop; here he plays several instruments along with Bill Howarth’s dulcimer on two well-known traditional tunes, ‘Tip Top’ and ‘Redwing’.

Hobgoblin website: www.hobgoblin.com