Tinkers Lane are a six-piece band playing wonderful self penned original songs.
Their music ranges from intimate love songs to upbeat summer tunes that will have you dancing and dreaming of a better world.
Melodic sing-a-long catchy tunes combine with perceptive poetic lyrics all underpinned by a yearning for love, peace and social justice.
A Tinkers Lane gig is a journey across the genres, spanning pop, rock, country, and even a touch of latin, but always with an uplifting sound that is uniquely their own.

Ian Roberts

Songwriter, singer, and guitar player who shakes a shaker and bangs a tambourine now and then. 

I grew up in a musical family, my Grandad was a piano player who sang in the old music halls in Scotland, and my Mum had the greatest...

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Andy Hembry

Lead Guitarist/Backing Vocals

Andy is Tinkers Lane’s lead and rhythm guitarist and joined Ian to form Tinkers Lane in 2016.

Originally from Hull, he moved to Cheshire as a child, and later went to...

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Mark Prescott

Fiddle/Violin/Backing Vocals

Mark has played violin and fiddle for much of his life, bringing a unique mix of classical technique, improvisation and innovation in his...

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Phil Wallace

Bass, accordion, mandolin

Phil plays a variety of music from Ceilidh to Indie and Blues/Rock playing various instruments, acoustic and electric guitars, bass guitar, accordion, mandolin and ukulele.

Besides playing in Tinkers Lane Phil is also a....

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John Garrad

Drums/Percussion/Backing Vocals

John has been playing drums since he was 15. Having served his apprenticeship in punk and New Wave bands in the late 70s and 80s in the Essex and London music scene, there was something of a...

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Hélène Walker

Backing vocals, harmonies, tambourine and shakers

Always a songbird, I became a fan of Tinkers Lane’s music ever since...

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