Whereabouts of Folk Group Magenta

Subject: Whereabouts of Folk Group Magenta
From: GUEST,Madam du Lac
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 08:13 AM

Anyone know where Magenta have got to? I know they broke up probably late 80's/early 90's but does anyone know where individual members are now. Arthur Brown, Mervyn Brown, Pete? we miss you guys.

Subject: RE: Whereabouts of Folk Group Magenta
From: PoppaGator
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 01:52 PM

Last year I saw the great young Irish group Fushia, another word for a shade of reddish-purple. When I saw this thread title, I mistakenly thought of that current group.

Might "Fushia" have named themselves in honor of "Magenta" (of whom I've never heard before)?

Subject: RE: Whereabouts of Folk Group Magenta
From: ClaireBear
Date: 29 Feb 08 - 01:02 PM

Here's the full band personnel, fom a site in Romania (http://www.old-rock.ru/paleontology_review/magenta.html).

Everything on the page but this was in Cyrillic lettering, so I can't help further:

Janet Brown – vocals, guitar, glockenspiel, whistle, electric piano
Arthur Brown – vocals, guitar, mandolin, harmonica
Mervyn Brown – vocals, guitar, whistle, dulcimer
Peter Thompson – vocals, guitar, mandolin, bouzouki
Jenny White – flute

Subject: RE: Whereabouts of Folk Group Magenta
From: GUEST, Tom Bliss
Date: 29 Feb 08 - 01:28 PM

So Thompson must be a bright scarlet colour then, else they'd have been called Mud

Subject: RE: Whereabouts of Folk Group Magenta
From: ClaireBear
Date: 29 Feb 08 - 01:31 PM

The'd have to sing the blues as well, to really make it work...

Tom, that was BRILLIANT!

Subject: RE: Whereabouts of Folk Group Magenta
From: GUEST,A friend
Date: 15 Aug 08 - 05:15 PM

Sure, Mervyn's living near Cheddar, UK. Still sounds great. He's acting too.

Subject: RE: Whereabouts of Folk Group Magenta
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 03 Oct 08 - 11:43 AM

Pete's living near Weston Super-Mare, playing for a local band called The Old Fox Band and alsom playing fiddle for a local morris side.