Matthew "Matt" Pegg (born 27 March 1971) is an English musician and bass guitarist. Pegg is the son of Fairport Convention and Jethro Tull

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player

Dave Pegg Dave Pegg (born 2 November 1947) is an English multi-instrumentalist and record producer, primarily a bass guitarist. He is the longest-serving member of the British folk rock band Fairport Convention and has been bassist with a number of folk ...

. He is an experienced

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in his own right and has been known to stand in for his father on Jethro Tull and Fairport Convention tours. He has recorded with

Francis Dunnery Francis Dunnery (born 25 December 1962) is an English musician, singer-songwriter, record producer and record label owner. Dunnery was the lead singer and guitarist for British prog-pop band It Bites between 1982 and 1990. Since 1990 he has ...

, Ian Brown and

Chris Difford Christopher Henry Difford (born 4 November 1954) is an English singer, musician, songwriter and record producer. He is a founding member and songwriter of the rock group Squeeze. Musical career Born in Greenwich, London, Difford has written l ...

. Pegg began his professional career in 1989, aged 18, with the band Blinder who played in a contemporary progressive rock style. Blinder played two very successful support slots with the band

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, which brought Pegg to the attention of future employer Francis Dunnery. (The other members of Blinder would later form the band

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- who signed to Polydor Records - and BlackCar.) Pegg appeared on Dunnery's ''Man''

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in 2001, and toured with him on his ''Hometown'' tour (as well as appearing on the ''Hometown (Live)'' album of the following year). Since 1993, he has been a member of the group

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; touring with them regularly and appearing on their ''

The Well's on Fire ''The Well's on Fire'' is the eleventh studio album by Procol Harum, released in 2003. The album was Matthew Fisher's last studio album with the band, and his last live release with them was '' Live at Union Chapel'', recorded in December 2003 ...

'' and '' Novum'' albums and '' Live at the Union Chapel'' and '' Procol Harum – In Concert with the Danish National Concert Orchestra and Choir''

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. He tours with folk-rock group "The Gathering".

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