Tryckster was formed after a St. Patrick’s Night session in Cockermouth in 1996. Dave Camlin and Neil & Yvonne Reay-Bennett were quickly joined by bassist Joanne Braniff , fiddler Mark Newport and drummer Craig Hoggarth. We played out loads, and recorded an album for Fellside Records in 2000, When The Stone is Exposed. Then we all got on with other things for a while, but came back together for our 20th anniversary in 2016, and have been playing and writing together ever since.

We’ve got a clutch of new songs we’ve been working up and playing out over the last few years, and which we plan to record this autumn for a 2026 release , as yet untitled.