The Big Takeover: A Short Conversation with Mark Lyons of The Two Man Travelling Medicine Show
The Two Man Travelling Medicine Show come about, and what paths brought you together? Mark Lyons: We all meet in the sleepy village Witchampton in NE Dorset, England. There are not many people living there anyway so to find 7 like-minded musicians was definitely fate. There are three people involved with the writing process ( Jamie Lynch, Steve Wareham, and myself). Jamie is a neighbor and, after a drunken dare, started writing lyrics for me. I then, by pure accident, slowly met the rest and we started really concentrating on turning the demos into an actual album. That was five years ago...
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