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John Baine (born 21 October 1957), better known by his stage name Attila the Stockbroker,Strong, Martin C. (2003) ''The Great Indie Discography'', Canongate, , p. 208 is an English
punk poet Punk literature (also called punk lit and, rarely, punklit) is literature related to the punk subculture. The attitude and ideologies of punk rock gave rise to distinctive characteristics in the writing it manifested. It has influenced the transg ...
, multi instrumentalist musician and songwriter. He performs solo and as the leader of the band Barnstormer 1649, who combine early music and punk. He has performed over 3,800 concerts, published eight books of poems, an autobiography (which itself has 38 poems in it) and in 2021 his Collected Works spanning 40 years. He has released over forty recordings (albums and singles).


Early life

Baine attended the
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, Darwin College, in
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between 1975 and 1978 graduating with a 2:2 degree in French and Politics.Attila the Stockbroker
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.


Career

Having started performing in the late 1970s after being inspired by the spirit and 'do it yourself' ethos of the
punk subculture The punk subculture includes a diverse and widely known array of ideologies, fashion, and other forms of expression, visual art, dance, literature, and film. Largely characterised by anti-establishment views, the promotion of individual freedom ...
, particularly
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's overtly
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stance, Baine was briefly bass player in long-forgotten punk bands English Disease and Brighton Riot Squad, and spent some time in 1979 in Brussels playing bass in Belgian band Contingent before going solo. He did his first gig as Attila the Stockbroker at Bush Fair Playbarn,
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, on 8 September 1980. At first he performed poems and songs in between bands at punk rock concerts, accompanying himself on the phased
electric mandolin The electric mandolin is an instrument tuned and played as the mandolin and amplified in similar fashion to an electric guitar. As with electric guitars, electric mandolins take many forms. Most common is a carved-top eight-string instrument fit ...
. After this was smashed over his head by
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during a fight at a performance in
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in May 1982, he got a
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(a fifth lower) and has played this ever since. He refers to his mandola as "Nelson", in tribute to
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. He has performed in 24 countries, playing venues ranging from the
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in England to
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punk clubs in Germany, and performs between 80 and 100 shows every year, sometimes more. He toured
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four times before the
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came down, performed in a hotel in
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's
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and had to turn down the opportunity to perform in North Korea (at the World Festival of Youth & Students in 1989) because he was already booked to tour Canada. He was signed by Cherry Red in 1982 after recording a session for
John Peel John Robert Parker Ravenscroft (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey (DJ) and radio presenter. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly fr ...
's
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show. He recorded a second session for Peel in 1983.Attila The Stockbroker
, ''Keeping It Peel'',
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, retrieved 2010-10-16 In the 1980s, he was often the support act for punk bands, including
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,
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,
Newtown Neurotics The Newtown Neurotics (later just The Neurotics) are an English punk rock group formed in Harlow, Essex, England, in 1979. They are noted for their openly political music. History As The Newtown Neurotics, the band began their career playing ...
,
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, and performed extensively with fellow punk-inspired ranting poets, Swift Nick (Nick Swift), Kool Knotes (Richard Edwards), Porky the Poet (
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) and Seething Wells (
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).
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supported him at a performance at
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. In the 1990s, alongside many other things, he toured with
John Otway John Otway (born 2 October 1952) is an English singer-songwriter who has built a cult audience through extensive touring. Biography 1970s and 1980s Otway was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. Although his first single, "Gypsy"/"Misty Mounta ...
as Headbutts and Halibuts, and together they wrote a surreal rock opera called ''Cheryl'', a tale of
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,
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, drug abuse and unrequited love. He has performed at every
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since 1983, at the Edinburgh Fringe on and off for 35 years, and continues to write topical, satirical material on all kinds of subjects. He puts on an annual beer and music festival 'Glastonwick', currently held at Coombes Farm, near Shoreham though originally in Southwick, his home town nearby. June 2018 saw the 23rd Glastonwick. Notable works from the 1980s include the poem "Contributory Negligence"; various Russian-themed poems, satirizing the alleged
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Russian threat in the context of
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's Britain (such as "Russians in the
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" and "Russians in
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"). Other political poems include the surreal ''Nigel'' series, such as "Nigel wants to go to C&A". Later pieces include "Asylum Seeking
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s", which satirises the
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press's attitudes to immigration, and "Hey Celebrity", which rejects the need for the concept of celebrity. Attila the Stockbroker formed the band Barnstormer in 1994, with the initial aim of combining punk rock and early music, which they did to an extent on their debut album, ''The Siege of Shoreham'', in 1996. Then Barnstormer's line up changed: they turned into a melodic punk band and for the next 22 years performed regularly across Europe, doing over 500 gigs and releasing three further albums, ''Just One Life'' (2000) ''Zero Tolerance'' (2004) and ''Bankers and Looters'' (2012). In 2018, Attila, who has always been interested in the history of the radical movements spawned in the aftermath of the English Civil War, wrote and recorded an album, ''Restoration Tragedy'' on that theme, combining early music and punk. He changed the name of the band to Barnstormer 1649 (the year of King Charles I of England's execution and the revolutionary uprisings by the
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and
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). Barnstormer 1649 features Attila on vocals,
mandola The mandola (US and Canada) or tenor mandola (Ireland and UK) is a fretted, stringed musical instrument. It is to the mandolin what the viola is to the violin: the four double courses of strings tuned in fifths to the same pitches as the viola ...
,
violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...
,
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,
crumhorn The crumhorn is a double reed instrument of the woodwind family, most commonly used during the Renaissance period. In modern times, particularly since the 1960s, there has been a revival of interest in early music, and crumhorns are being play ...
,
cornemuse French bagpipes cover a wide range and variety of styles of bagpipes and piping, from the Celtic piping and Music of Brittany to the Northern Occitan's cabrette. The Center-France bagpipes (called in French ''cornemuse du centre'' or ''musette ...
,
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,
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,
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and recorder; Jason Pegg (formerly of Clearlake) on guitar/backing vocals; M. M. McGhee on drums; Dave Cook (also of Too Many Crooks) on bass/backing vocals and Tim O'Tay on recorder. Attila is still doing many solo shows combining his poems and songs. He has released three CDs featuring live recordings of solo gigs: ''Live in Belfast'' (2003) ''Live in Norway'' (2007) and ''Live at the Greys'' (2014). His book of poems, ''Undaunted'', was published in 2017, ''UK Gin Dependence Party and Other Peculiarities'' in January 2014 and ''My Poetic Licence'' came out in 2008. In 2010, he published a pamphlet, ''The Long Goodbye'', containing two poems — a long one dedicated to, and chronicling the life of his mother, Muriel, who died in June 2010, after a six-year battle with
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, and a shorter one written for his stepfather, John Stanford, who died in December 2009. ''The Long Goodbye'' was featured on
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's ''
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'' on Mother's Day in 2011. Attila celebrated 30 years of performing in September 2010, with a 27-date tour of the UK, Germany and the Netherlands. In March 2011, he toured Australia and New Zealand for the first time in ten years. In 2012, he made a return to Albania and, in February 2014, toured the UK, Germany and Switzerland, to promote his latest poetry book. In 2018, he performed at the Limerick Limerick Festival and continues to tour mainland Europe. 8 September 2015, the 35th anniversary of his first gig, saw the publication of his autobiography, ''Arguments Yard (35 Years of Ranting Verse and Thrash Mandola)'' by Cherry Red Books. In September 2016, Attila performed at the Keep Corbyn rally in Brighton in support of Jeremy Corbyn's campaign in the Labour Party leadership election. In 2017, a short documentary, ''35 Years A Punk Poet'', about Attila's performance career, was produced by film maker Farouq Suleiman. In April 2021, delayed from 2020 by the pandemic, Cherry Red Books released 'Heart On My Sleeve (Collected Works 1980-2020)' an anthology of his life's work. June 2021 saw the release of a dub poetry EP 'Dub Ranting', a collaboration with reggae producers What's Left Dub, Kingsley Salmon and Rebel Control. His latest album '40 Years In Rhyme', a dub poetry collection with the same collaborators, was released by Zorch Productions in June 2022.


Football support

Baine is a supporter of Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. and, for about 16 years, was heavily involved in the successful battle to save the club and secure a new stadium, after the
Goldstone Ground The Goldstone Ground (or The Goldstone) was a football stadium in Hove, East Sussex that was the home ground of Brighton & Hove Albion between 1902 and 1997. History The Goldstone Ground stood on Old Shoreham Road, Hove, opposite Hove Park i ...
was sold to property developers in 1997. The Seagulls finally moved to their new stadium at
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in August 2011. He has been the team's poet in residence since 2000, and was the stadium announcer and DJ for 14 years, first at Gillingham, where the club spent two seasons playing 'home' games, and then at the club's temporary home at
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. As the main member of the one-off band, Seagulls Ska, he had a single reach No. 17 in the
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in 2005, as part of the campaign for the new stadium. "
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". On 17 August 2016, just before the start of Brighton's debut in the Premier League, he appeared in a Guardian documentary, ''From Nowhere to the Premier League'', about the fans' role in the club's survival and resurgence. On 12 August his poem on that theme, ''From Hereford To Here'', was broadcast by
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before the coverage of their first game against
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. In 1989, he appeared on the ''Kickback'' segment of ''
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'', reflecting on
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's 9–0 win over
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.


Bibliography


Poetry collections

*''Cautionary tales for Dead Commuters'' (with
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), Allen & Unwin, 1986 *''Scornflakes'', Bloodaxe, 1992 *''The Rat-Tailed Maggot & Other Poems'', Roundhead, 1998) *''Goldstone Ghosts'', Roundhead, 2001 *''My Poetic Licence'', Roundhead, 2008 *''The Long Goodbye (poems for my mother and stepfather)'', Roundhead, 2010 *''UK Gin Dependence Party and Other Peculiarities'', Roundhead, 2014 *''Undaunted'', Roundhead, 2017 *''Heart On My Sleeve'' (Collected Works 1980-2020) Cherry Red Books, 2021


Autobiography

*''Arguments Yard (35 years of Ranting Verse and Thrash Mandola)'' Cherry Red Books, 2015


Discography


Solo

*1981 ''Phasing Out Capitalism'' cassette (No Wonder) *1982 ''Rough, Raw and Ranting EP'' with Seething Wells (Radical Wallpaper) *1982 ''Cocktails EP'' ( Cherry Red) *1983 ''Ranting at the Nation'' LP ( Cherry Red) ( UK Indie No. 12) *1984 ''Sawdust and Empire'' LP (Anagram) *1984 ''Radio Rap!'' EP ( Cherry Red) *1984 ''Livingstone Rap!'' EP (Cherry Red Ken) *1987 ''Libyan Students from Hell!'' LP (Plastic Head) *1988 ''Scornflakes'' LP/cassette (Probe Plus) *1990 (Canada) ''Live at the Rivoli'' LP/cassette (Festival) *1991 ''Donkey's Years'' CD/LP/cassette (Musidisc) *1991 1991 ''Cheryl - a Rock Opera'' (Strikeback) - with
John Otway John Otway (born 2 October 1952) is an English singer-songwriter who has built a cult audience through extensive touring. Biography 1970s and 1980s Otway was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. Although his first single, "Gypsy"/"Misty Mounta ...
*1992 (Germany) ''This Is Free Europe'' CD/LP (Terz) *1993 (Australia) ''668-Neighbour of the Beast'' CD/cassette (Larrikin) *1993 (Germany) ''Live auf St.Pauli'' CD (Terz) *1993 ''Attila the Stockbroker's Greatest Hits'' cassette (Roundhead) *1999 ''Poems Ancient & Modern'' CD (Roundhead/Mad Butcher) *1999 ''The Pen & The Sword'' CD (Roundhead/Mad Butcher) *2003 ''Live in Belfast'' (Roundhead) *2005 ''Tom Hark (We Want Falmer)'' EP - with Seagulls Ska (Skint) *2007 ''Live In Norway'' (Crispin Glover) *2008 ''Spirit of the Age'' (Roundhead) *2010 ''Disestablished 1980'' (Mad Butcher) *2012 "The Long Goodbye"/"Never Too Late" (Roundhead) *2015 ''Live At The Greys'' (Mad Butcher) *2020 ''Heart On My Sleeve, A Fortieth Anniversary Song Compilation - Attila The Stockbroker and Barnstormer'' (Hiljaiset Levyt) *2021 ''Dub Ranting'' (Digital release via Bandcamp and 12 inch EP on Zorch Records))


Barnstormer

*1995 ''Barnstormer'' cassette (Roundhead Records) *1995 (Germany) ''Sarajevo'' EP (Mad Butcher) *1996 ''The Siege of Shoreham'' CD/cass (Roundhead Records) *1998 ''Live in Hamburg'' cassette (Roundhead Records) *1999 (Germany) ''The Siege of Shoreham'' CD (Puffotter Platten) and LP (East Side Records) *2000 ''Just One Life'' (Roundhead Records) *2004 ''Zero Tolerance'' (Roundhead Records) *2004 ''Baghdad Ska'' - split single with Bomb Factory (Repeat Records) *2012 ''Bankers & Looters'' CD (Mad Butcher) LP (Hupseeln Records)


Barnstormer 1649

*2018 ''Restoration Tragedy'' double LP and CD (Roundhead Records)


References


External links

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35 Years A Punk Poet
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