Des of Sharp as Razors

Des has been around the folk scene since a teenager but only plucked up the courage to start singing in clubs in the late seventies when he returned to his native town, Coventry. He has been a member of Earlsdon and Plum Jerkum Morris sides and for a short time was the Foreman and then Squire of Plum Jerkum. He performs solo and unaccompanied at local folk clubs in the area, was for some years one of the MC committee at the Harbury FC and has been a regular MC at the Warwick Folk Festival. He is also a member of the Coventry Singers’ Circle.

In the last few years Des has sung with Ninepenny Marl (four-part harmony) and now with Thrup’nny Bits (three-part harmony), whose website is here, as well as with Sharp as Razors. While he has always wanted to learn a musical instrument this skill has sadly eluded him. Thus his singing has always been unaccomplished and Acapulco (one MC once introduced him as one of the best unaccomplished singers in Warwickshire while another club organiser introduced Ninepenny Marl as Acapulco).