Description: Loscoe State Opera: raggle-taggle folk-punk with attitude from Derbyshire UK, playing uniquely adapted folk and memorable original material.
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| Dave | John | Ben | Styx | Sue | Andy | Anna | (Photos: Meri Everitt)
You’ll probably know the sad news by now that Ben died recently (see the obituary in Variety which mentions his C64 work - see this video where he discusses composing and this wonderful performance of his music from The Last Ninja ), and although after 23 years we’d already discussed winding down, we decided that Loscoe State Opera just wouldn’t be the same without him. We did one final benefit gig for the charity for young musicians he was involved with, and now…
Purely for nostalgia - see our first ever web page from around 1999, or the 2001 website ! Yep, the secret of survival is to ummm… survive…