Starvin Marvin Band

Since 1999, travelled half the globe with Kevin Ayers, stil going strong to do the other half!!

- Soul
- Blues
- New Wave
- Rock
- Reggae
- Rockritmes
- Band
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Bio

Marvin started out in the mid-70s with a punk rock band called Trampolino, and were fourth at the First Belgian Punk Contest. Then accompanied the Flemish minstrel Luk Bral for a while, and appears in Hitring with Plastic Dreamband in '81. Than Marvin records a single called "Vogelzaad" (Birdseed) at RKM studio in Brussels, with the legendary Ollie Halsall on piano, released by Vogue in '82. Three years later, Marvin throws an album on the market produced by Kevin Ayers, called Starvin Marvin & The paranoid androids. Also present on this album are Fons Sijmons (The Scabs) and Alan Gevaert (dEUS), as youngsters. Kevin Ayers adds one of Marvin's songs to his reunion album with Mike Oldfield in '88. Consequently, in the 90's Marvin was regularly invited to join Mr. Ayers on stage on acoustic evenings, sometimes with lots of celebrities. In '99 Boom Records relaunched Starvin Marvin with a promo-cd, the Starvin Marvin Band was immediately invited by Kevin Ayers to join the ranks, the rest is history.

Read more about the fortunes with Kevin Ayers in the archive of the Ayers Fanzine WAWS (Why Are We Sleeping): http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~marwak/index.html ==> press Archive top left / see Gig Reviews from 1993 untill 2004

They played in Japan twice and 4 tours around the UK, i.a. Canterbury festival (2001), Queen Elisabeth Hall (2002), The Astoria (2003), The Cavern (2003), the Ghent Festivities (2004) and final destination Palma de Mallorca, after which Kevin Ayers retired and passed away peacefully at home in 2013.

The Starvin Marvin Band still continues to perform with great enthusiasm, and pays a lot of tribute to Kevin Ayers, and many other heroes. In 2018 a new member joined the band, increasing the craftship and wit. Marvin produced a compilation CD's with outtakes of Kevin Ayers, Ollie Halsall, Lady June and himself, called the "The Happening Combo", first released by Market Square Music in 2017, than, with a great review in Mojo magazine, re-released by Singsong music in 2020. So let's hope '24 is gonna be a good year, we're looking very much forward to see you asap!