Quadrille De Chez Nous is from French-Canadian melodeon player Philippe Bruneau. Liquorice Reel is our title for a tune picked up from a radio broadcast by the group Milladoiro, who are from Galicia in Northern Spain. Martin Ellison wrote Herbert The Sherbet - the explanation for the title is too convoluted to set down here, but it involves a boiled sweet, a bumpy road, and a choking mouth-organ player. Fiona Booth wrote Andy's Haircut, named for Andy Sheppard, sax player and one of Fiona's many heart-throbs. Swedish Waltz is from French melodeon player Marc Perrone. Lunesdale Gavotte was found in an edition of Pitman's Musical Monthly published in the late 19th Century. Fiona wrote The Mysterious Window and Martin Hazell provided the title - ask him about Alnwick or West Wycombe sometime. Maitiña is based on a tune played by Galician bagpiper Emilio Corral. Dick Staber, a bluegrass mandolin player from Pennsylvania, wrote Queen Atlantic in honour of his cookstove, a photograph of which appears along with Dick and friends on the cover of his LP "Pickin' Around The Cookstove" on Rounder Records. Swansea Hornpipe is from Kerr's. Second Collection of Merry Melodies For The violin. Pete's Jig is by Pete Gammon, who used to play trombone for us. Cantiga De Santa Maria is from the Galician group DOA. Cherry Blossom Polka is a Polish tune from Hungarian hurdy-gurdy player Robert Mandel, and La Valentine is from French group, Le Claque Galoche. Martin Hazell managed to coax enough notes from a tin whistle to make half of a 'sort-of-hornpipe' - Fiona finished it off before it got too silly, and we called it The Big Cheese…Hum along. Polka Town shows that Flaco Jimenez is better at writing tunes than naming them, and to finish off we play The Barren Rocks Of Aden, a traditional Scottish blues-harp tune.

Hamburger comes from Swedish band Groupa, who play it with relish, Infinity from the endless Simon Booth. Northumbrian piper Archie Dagg composed the march for fellow piper Joe Hutton, and the Hollow Rock String Band got Hog-Eyed Man from fiddler Henry Reed of Virginia. It Never Rains… is Martin Ellison's respectful nod to all the wonderful French accordionists he has heard, and the French Canadian Reel was unashamedly stolen from Andy Cutting + Chris Wood, who heard it from the magnificent Philippe Bruneau of Quebec. Quindaro Hornpipe is trad. Irish via U.S. band Ebenezer, and Staten Island Hornpipe is from fiddler Huvert Caldwell of Iowa. Kerr's Collection of Merry Melodies for the Violin kindly provided us with the Soho + Washington Hornpipes. Evelyn Girardon from French trio Beau Temps wrote the music for the song Today or Tomorrow… we forgot the words. Martin Hazell gathered together the percussion piece Cirrus, which precipitates into A Rainy Day, from O'Neill's collection of Irish music.

Martin Hazell played the first part of Ribchester Snake Dance on a clarinet… both the tune and the clarinet were confiscated, and Martin Ellison added the second part to the tune. Anton Seoane of Spanish band Milladoiro didn't compose A Bruxa for Fiona Booth, but she took it anyway. Ti Mé, another one from Philippe Bruneau, is followed by a version of the ubiquitous Irish reel Drowsy Maggie. Wondering how many languages/cultures/dance tempos etc. he could get into three minutes, Simon Booth came up with Oberek/Le Pobre Nobio/Louis' First Tune from the playing of Hungarian hurdy-gurdy player Robert Mandel, Frenchman Jean Blanchard, and U.S. fiddle player George Wilson respectively. Attempting to learn some Brazilian pop music, Martin Ellison's finger found the going hard and Skimmity Ride rode out. På Rygg was composed by Swedish melodeon player Mats Edén and a friendly gig in Hertfordshire prompted Martin Ellison to write Ladies of Tring. When searching for a new coat in the local Oxfam shop, Martin Ellison came out with just a sleeve. In it was a record of Romanian folk music. The song tune I have made myself a new fur-lined coat comes from that… coincidence, eh? It's funny you should say that, I just happen to have a bottle in my bag poured from the imagination of Peter Reeve.

Get down, shed your skin, and Do the Snake!

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