Tryckster ply a boisterous trade in foot-stomping energetic tune-led songs about the state of the world and how we fix it. The band came into being following a St Patrick’s Night session in Cockermouth back in 1996, and recorded their debut album for Fellside Records in 2000, When The Stone is Exposed. Reforming for their 20th anniversary in 2016, they’ve been playing and writing together ever since.

The band’s sound is driven by catchy tunes on fiddle (Mark Newport), flute (Yvonne Reay-Bennett) and mandolin (Neil Reay-Bennett) as foils to the songs of Dave Camlin (guitar) and Neil, underpinned by a solid rhythm section of drums (Craig Hoggarth) and bass (Joanne Brainff). They have a clutch of new songs they’ve been working up and playing out over the last few years, and which they plan to record for a 2026 release , as yet untitled.

“Raucous yet finely lathe-turned, crafted with a toe-tapping nudge of anti-globalisation and anti-privatisation, their river of music has the rhythm of the earth in its boots.” (Andrew Darlington, Rock ‘n’ Reel