Dave and Julie hail from Cleethorpes, adjacent to the once great North Sea fishing town of Grimsby in Lincolnshire, England's second largest county. They began singing together in 1971 and married in 1972 (which made organising rehearsals much easier), and chose to focus their performing in and around their native county and across the River Humber in Hull. Their preferred genre is folk in all its guises, based on the rich store of traditional songs they've learned from around the British Isles. Dave soon acquired the habit of composing songs, encouraged by local writers John Conolly and Bill Meek, and following their example helped preserve in song the story of the decline of the once great fishing industry of Grimsby. Dave had an additional inspiration - his father John, a marine fitter with an abundance of memories of his working life and the people he knew. With John's help Dave penned several maritime songs, some of which have since been recorded by leading British performers such as Vin Garbutt and the