FiddleBopper Graeme Lamble

Graeme Lamble, FiddleBop's bassist extraordinaire. Photo: Ruth Redmond-Cooper

Graeme Lamble is FiddleBop's fretless bassist extraordinaire. And it's a joy to hear his honey-smooth — and adventurous — bass lines underpinning our "Gypsy jazz plus"!

Graeme grew up in North London, then moved to mid-Wales. He loved it so much that he has never left! He is from a highly musical family. Brother Robin Lamble is a composer and musician who has recorded with Al Stewart and Robin Williamson, amongst others. And older brother Martin Lamble was the drummer on now-classic early folk-rock albums by Fairport Convention. Martin tragically died — aged just 19 — when the band's van crashed on the M1 motorway on the way back from a gig.

FiddleBopper Graeme Lamble with his fretless bass

Our Graeme — who is very much alive — is a man who can turn his hand to many things. Alongside his superb bass playing, he is also a very fine guitarist, and a dab hand on drums and keyboard. And from time to time he sings too.

As well as playing "Gypsy jazz plus" in FiddleBop, Graeme makes music in various styles in several other bands, including "Small Town Jazz", and the acclaimed Much Ado Band folk dance group; and also for the Willow Globe Community Theatre.

Graeme is also a luthier ("Lamble Guitars"). Instruments made by him include the fretless bass and the guitars which he plays. And he is also a picture-framer, a roofer, a carpenter, and a builder. (Thanks for all you did in our annexe, Graeme!).

When he is not making music — which isn't often — you might see Graeme striding across the beautiful hills of the Epynt and the Black Mountains, the land that he loves.