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Ed Alleyne-Johnson
Ed Alleyne-Johnson busking in York, January 2009
Background information
Origin	Liverpool
Genres	Classical, folk, rock
Occupations	Musician
Instruments	Electric violin
Years active	1992–present (as recording artist)
Labels	Equation, Wingspan
Associated acts	New Model Army

Ed Alleyne-Johnson is a British electric violinist and prolific busker. He has been busking since he was a Fine Art student at Oxford University in the early 1980s. He uses an electric violin that he carved with a kitchen knife,^[1] a custom pedal-board, and an amplifier which he modified to run off rechargeable batteries. This setup has enabled him to perform on the street in almost every major city in Europe, and across the United States and Canada.

He collaborated with New Model Army on their Top 40 single "Vagabonds", and toured with them for five years, with several concerts in Germany in over 200 concerts worldwide, supporting acts as diverse as Simple Minds, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, The Cure, Midnight Oil and Faith No More

During his time in Oxford in the late 1980s he played bass guitar in local band, Raindance.^{[citation needed]}

He can often be seen performing in Chester city centre, near the Grosvenor shopping precinct and the Chester Cross, and more recently on the streets of York.

Purple Electric Violin Concerto in 1992 sold over 80,000 copies and has gained a cult following in Greece, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland and New Zealand as well as the UK.

His 2005 album Echoes features songs such as Mad World by Tears For Fears and Stir It Up by Bob Marley.

In July 2008, Ed performed the Beatles tracks 'Yesterday' and 'Eleanor Rigby' in front of 7,000 people at Liverpool's Echo Arena for a Beatles Day charity gig.

The 2011 Arpeggio album led off with a crashing, cover version of The Who's Baba O'Riley and also included another cover of Human by The Killers.

[edit] Discography

• Purple Electric Violin Concerto (1992)

1. Oxford Suite Part 1
2. Oxford Suite Part 2
3. Oxford Suite Part 3
4. Oxford Suite Part 4
5. Inner City Music Part 1
6. Inner City Music Part 2
7. Inner City Music Part 3
8. Inner City Music Part 4
9. Improvisation
10. Concrete Eden

• Ultraviolet (1994)

1. White (Intro)
2. Red
3. Orange
4. Yellow
5. Green
6. Blue
7. Indigo
8. Violet
9. Ultraviolet
10. White (Reprise)

• Fly Before Dawn (1995) -- co-written by and performed with his wife, Denyze

1. 3rd Eye
2. Fly Before Dawn
3. All a Dream
4. Winter Son
5. Men-an-Tel
6. God's Viewpoint
7. Summerland
8. Forest Hill
9. Wheel of Fortune
10. Lion Mountain
11. U.F.O.
12. Somebody to Love

• 2020 Vision (1998) -- co-written by and performed with his wife, Denyze
• Purple Electric Violin Concerto II (2001)

1. Liverpool Concerto Part 1
2. Liverpool Concerto Part 2
3. Liverpool Concerto Part 3
4. Liverpool Concerto Part 4
5. Liverpool Concerto Part 5
6. Classical Suite Part 1
7. Classical Suite Part 2
8. Classical Suite Part 3
9. Variations on Pachelbel's Canon
10. Improvisation 2

• Echoes (2005) -- two CD album of cover versions

1. Disc 1
   1. Clocks
   2. We Are All Made of Stars
   3. By the Way
   4. With or Without You/Wherever You Will Go
   5. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
   6. Smells Like Teen Spirit
   7. Teenage Dirtbag
   8. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
   9. Bohemian Like You
   10. Bitter Sweet Symphony
   11. (Don't Fear) The Reaper
   12. Can't Get You Out of My Head
   13. How You Remind Me
   14. Stir It Up
   15. Thank You
   16. All Right Now

1. Disc 2
   1. Every Breath You Take
   2. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
   3. Because the Night/Layla
   4. Fields of Gold
   5. Mad World
   6. Better Off Alone
   7. Follow You Follow Me
   8. Another Chance
   9. Where Is the Love?
   10. Sweet Child o' Mine
   11. Stuck In a Moment
   12. Right Here Right Now
   13. The Zephyr Song
   14. Pretty Green Eyes
   15. Imitation of Life/You'll Never Walk Alone
   16. Loneliness
   17. Whatever

• Reflections (2006) -- a second album of cover versions:

1. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"
2. "Life on Mars?"
3. "Kashmir"
4. "Without You"
5. "Free Bird"
6. "Parisienne Walkways"
7. "Child in Time"
8. "Sylvia"
9. "Like a Hurricane"

• Symphony (2008)

• Arpeggio (2011)

1. "Baba O'Riley"
2. Passacaglia in D minor
3. Arpeggio
4. Nothing else matters
5. Goodbye
6. Hallelujah
7. Little Green Viper
8. Run
9. Portmeadow
10. "Starlight"
11. "Human"
12. The Earth dies screaming
13. 100.000.000.000 years old
14. Journey to the East

[edit] References

1. ^ Alleyne-Johnson, Ed (2004). Echoes (CD sleeve notes). Wingspan Records. 

[edit] External links

• Unofficial site of Ed and Denyze Alleyne-Johnson
• Video of Ed Alleyne-Johnson busking in Chester
• Review of Ed Alleyne-Johnson's work, with sample
• Ed Alleyne-Johnson Facebook page

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