Tinkers Lane are a five-piece from Milton Keynes in England, playing the happy, catchy pop songs of frontman Ian Roberts. Their sound harks back to the classic songwriting of the late 60s - Beatles, Kinks, and the summer of love - with added flavours and inspiration taken from Carlos Santana through Bob Marley to Chas ’n’ Dave.
Their debut album The Noise is Beautiful was released on 11 April 2020. The single, Honey Honey, is a soft-rock love song. Ian says “We were on holiday, on the Île d'Oléron - which is a lovely island on the west coast of France. We cycled everywhere, and one day we went out to a little village called Saint-Denis that has a classic French market in the square and a bar on the corner. So my wife - Annie - chose to walk round the market, and I chose to sit outside the bar with a cold beer. And as I watched the scenery, and the people doing what they do, I saw Annie walking up and down the aisles of the market, browsing at the stalls, chatting to everyone as she does, then she looked over to me and smiled, and I thought back to how she first smiled at me nearly thirty years ago, when I fell in love with her on the spot. And I smiled back and thought ‘I still love that woman today.’ And suddenly I had a new melody arrive in my head, so I wrote about what I was feeling and seeing, and the song Honey Honey was born.”
Tinkers Lane have played at festivals and venues including
• supporting Martin Stephenson and the Daintees at 229 The Venue
• the Levellers’ Beautiful Days festival
• the Dublin Castle in Camden
• the Half Moon in Putney
• Folk on the Green festival in Stony Stratford.