Now, as reported elsewhere, he has moved on to meadows fresh and pastures Wiltshire. we miss him.
Pippa Clarke is Little Egypt's version of the brat
pack. She plays a
range of recorders, but her main instrument is a gleaming
trombone, which she took to Barcelona and Holland with the
Suffolk Youth Wind Band.
Now she has moved on to the fields of Academe, so will only appear on a casual basis.
Julie Bazouki came to the side with dancer husband Tommo.She sings as well as playing her strange elongated plucked instrument. "The Fields of Athenry" is a particular favourite.
Alex Clarke was a founder member of the musical side
of Little Egypt. Supporting Fred with her cultured fiddle
playing (which, in another guise, turned out as second
violin for the Suffolk Youth Orchestra), she was there
from the start .Her performances were
necessarily curtailed by her six month sojourn in the
People's Republic of China. She claims to have educated
the burghers of Shanghai in the art of the rant, albeit
by demonstrating it as the latest in disco-dancing steps.
On her return, she played a few more turns
before wandering off to University.
She keeps coming back, and then disappearing again. When last contacted, she was about to board a train from Berlin to Krakow, but has also been sighted in Dresden and Istanbul (twice).
The side also "employs" a range of percussion, including side drum and bodhran, about which the least said the better.