Ezio (band)

This article is about the band. For other uses, see Ezio (disambiguation).

Ezio is a folk band from Cambridge, England, formed in 1990. They are named after their lead singer and main composer, Ezio Lunedei.

Ezio
The Ezio logo
Background information
Origin	Cambridge, England
Genres	Folk
Years active	1990 – date
Labels	Tapete Records
Members	Ezio Booga Lidia Cascarino Lee Russell Alex Reeves
Past members	Peter Van Hooke
Website	ezio.co.uk

Members

• Ezio Lunedei, lead singer, guitar and main composer
• Mark "Booga" Fowell, guitar
• Lidia Cascarino, bass
• Lee Russell, percussion, steel guitar and other instruments
• Alex Reeves, drums.

The band vary their on-stage line-up depending on the venue; some gigs feature all five members in the line-up, whereas some gigs in smaller venues will have just Ezio and Fowell.^[1]

Career

Ezio was formed 1988 or 1989, by a duo of guitarists, Ezio Lunedei—of Italian decent—and Mark "Booga" Fowell—from Kenya.^[2] The former had been working as a surveyor and the latter studding to be a biochemist.^[3] The band self released there first two albums, before being picked up by Arista Records, in 1995.^[2][4]

Their profile was raised considerably when their song Cancel Today was chosen by Tony Blair for his Desert Island Discs selection.^[5] This lead the song to enjoy "unforeseen airplay" and discussion, and reportedly lead to shops selling out of their CDs.^[6][7]

The band has released eight studio albums, one compilation album, four live albums and three videos / DVDs.^{[citation needed]}

Discography

Studio albums

• The Angel Song (1993) – Salami Records
• Black Boots on Latin Feet (1995) – Arista Records
• Diesel Vanilla (1997) – Arista Records
• Higher (2000) – Salami Records
• The Making of Mr. Spoons (2003) – Eagle Records
• Ten Thousand Bars (2006) – Tapete Records
• This Is the Day (2010) – Tapete Records
• Adam and the Snake (2014) – Tapete Records
• Daylight Moon (2016) – Jazzhaus Records

Compilation albums

• Lost and Found (Volume 2) (2006) – Salami Records

Live albums

• Live at the Shepherds Bush Empire (1999) – Salami Records
• Live:Cambridge (2004) – Salami Records
• Das Bootleg – Live in Mannheim (Part 1) (2008) – Salami Records
• Ten Thousand Bars – Live (2008) – Tapete Records

DVDs

• Ezio Live (1996) – Salami Records
• Live at the Shepherds Bush Empire (1999) – Salami Records
• Live at the Junction (2005) – Salami Records