Trio Rat

Trio Rat are :-

• Richard Robinson (clarinet)
• Andy Hornby (mandolin, octave mandolin, whistles)
• Tony Cook (guitar, and song)

We put this together several years ago now and made a demo CD, which got us zero bookings, and now we're mostly doing other things instead. Never mind, here are some recordings, anyway.

• Minuet, from Rasmus Storm's Notebook
  Rasmus Storm was an eighteenth-century Danish fiddler. He wrote a lot of tunes down, and his collection was re-discovered a few years ago.

• 2 Schottisches
  The first is really a reinländer, from Ringnes, in Norway. I think the 2nd is Swedish.

• Andy Hornby's weird tunes (Andy Hornby)
  Young Andrew's Gallop, Timely Consent, Herald of Bores.

• Pay the Piper / Pat's Rag (Andy Hornby / Tony Cooke)
  A tune that Andy made for a bagpiping friend, and one of Tony's.

• The New Dresser (Andy Hornby)
  A tune named after a piece of furniture. There aren't a lot of those about, you know. Recorded live at the Lancaster Clocks Back Festival, October '98

• Sher
  A tune from Morocco. I know nothing, I learnt it in a pub in Leeds. Recorded live as above - isn't it nice when the audience do the work for you ?

• Suprise Hornpipe / the Burn of Finnigirt / Marsascala (Pigg / trad. Shetland / Andy Hornby)
  A bunch of fun tunes that I was looking for an excuse to play.