Ezio (band)

Ezio
The Ezio logo
Background information
Origin	Cambridge, England
Genres	Folk
Years active	1990 - date
Labels	Tapete Records
Website	ezio.co.uk
Members	Ezio Booga Lidia Cascarino Lee Russell Alex Reeves
Past members	Peter Van Hooke

Ezio is a folk music band from Cambridge, England formed in 1990. Ezio have six studio albums, one compilation album, four live albums and three videos / DVDs, built up a large fanbase without breaking into the mainstream of the British music scene.^{[citation needed]} Ezio Lunedei is the lead singer and main composer, Mark "Booga" Fowell plays guitar, Lidia Cascarino plays bass, "The Reverend" Lee Russell plays percussion, steel guitar and a variety of other instruments, and Alex Reeves plays the drums. The band vary their touring routine depending on the venue - some gigs will feature all five members in the line-up, whereas some gigs in smaller venues will have just Ezio and Booga.^[1]

One of their tracks were chosen by Tony Blair for his Desert Island Discs selection.^[2]

Discography

Studio Albums

• The Angel Song (1993) - Salami Records
• Black Boots on Latin Feet (1995) - Arista Records
• Diesel Vanilla (1997) - Arista Records
• Higher (2000) - Salami Records
• The Making of Mr. Spoons (2003) - Eagle Records
• Ten Thousand Bars (2006) - Tapete Records
• This Is the Day (2010) - Tapete Records
• Adam and the Snake (2014) - Tapete Records

Compilation Albums

• Lost and Found (Volume 2) (2006) - Salami Records

Live Albums

• Live at the Shepherds Bush Empire (1999) - Salami Records
• Live:Cambridge (2004) - Salami Records
• Das Bootleg - Live in Mannheim (Part 1) (2008) - Salami Records
• Ten Thousand Bars - Live (2008) - Tapete Records

DVDs

• Ezio Live (1996) - Salami Records
• Live at the Shepherds Bush Empire (1999) - Salami Records
• Live at the Junction (2005) - Salami Records

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ezio (band).

• Official site
• Ezio at MySpace
• Ezio discography at MusicBrainz
• Gig review by fan