Sixpenny Wayke is an occasional acoustic collaboration between Yorkshire-based West Country exiles Paul Coleman (vocal, guitar, harmonica) and Oz Hardwick (bass, mandolin, mountain dulcimer, spoken word).
Paul has toured Europe twice in a rock band, played folk clubs throughout the South West and Yorkshire - the latter with his wife, Sandra - and taught guitar.
Oz's music credentials are more as a photographer, with album covers, tour programmes, etc., for Full Moon, Hawkwind, Haze, Solstice and Uriah Heep amongst others. He has played bass in a number of bands, but Sixpenny Wayke marks his first public dabblings with more exotic strings and boxes.
Paul and Oz first played together in prog band Poseidon, but when that sank without a trace (ouch!), they decided it was time to go back to their acoustic routes. Both published poets, they are articulate songwriters, but keep finding themselves drawn back to traditional material.
