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Interesting Times

1. Black and grey
2. The Dorset Triumph
3. De'il take the warr
4. The King of Spain /
   Off she goes /
   Leaping Jack
5. Mad Moll
6. Miss Thompson's hornpipe
7. Wild boy
8. The serpent with corners

9. A trip to the Jubilee
10. The recruiting officer /
    Quick step in the Battle of Prague /
    Dr Fauster's tumblers
11. Michael Turner's waltz
12. La Schottische
13. La Partida
14. Whimbleton House
15. Mr Cosgill's delight

Click on any track name for a short sample.

350 years of English country dance music with

Ali
plays accordion, keyboard and bass Bill
plays whistle and bones Meg
plays guitar and percussion Thomas
plays recorder but dropped the shaky egg

The excellence of the musicianship ... delighted me. Upbeat and full of energy ...
Ed St. Germain

Momentum is a dance band. You can feel the 'lift' in the music.
Rhodri Davies, English Dance & Song magazine

A joyful celebration of the band's wide definition of the English tradition ... My first impression was the feeling of exuberance and sheer enjoyment ... Wonderful music, which sounds spontaneous and effortlessly proficient.
Madeleine Smith, Set and Turn Single magazine

Interesting Times is an album of English country dance music from the last 350 years, released in July 2007. We hope you enjoy listening to the tunes, but we also hope you'll be inspired to play them and dance to them so we've got music for all the tunes and some pointers to notes for the dances.

Interesting Times is available as a CD. It costs £10 per copy, plus £1 per order for postage and packing (or a bit more for deliveries outside the UK). You can get it in several different ways:

Online

Buy direct from this website with a credit or debit card using our secure ordering system.

Interesting Times CD
with delivery to ...

UK £11

Europe £11.60

Rest of the world £12.10

By post

Write to Thomas Bending 91 Elers Road London W13 9QE telling us your name, your delivery address and the number of copies you'd like, and enclosing a cheque (in £) payable to Thomas Bending. Please do not send cash through the post.

In person

Buy a copy from us at most of our gigs or from any of us in person and save the p&p!

Other outlets

• The Anglo-American Dance Shop in Belgium.
• Genni and Darren run their Folk Sales service selling folk music, song, dance and story materials, and also offer a mail order service.
• The Venue Xpresso coffee house and art gallery in Alcester plays and sells Interesting Times.