Last Call

Steve Tilston is one of our most celebrated song smiths, widely recognised within the world of folk and contemporary music; the words, arrangements and subtle, quite superb guitar playing could be no one else. In the early 1980s, he ran a folk club with Bert Jansch in New Kings Road, London. Tilston recorded a rock album in 1982 called In for a Penny - In for a Pound, but soon reverted to quieter music. In 1985, Tilston played guitar and mandolin with the onstage band for "Sergeant Early's Dream" while on tour with Ballet Rambert, and again when the ballet toured England in 2000-2001. Tilston formed his own record label, Run River, in 1987, and in 1988 he was a member of John Renbourn's group Ship of Fools, which released one eponymous album on Tilston's label.