Dunc Marlow

Stevie Ward - Wardy

Pictured here on his 29th birthday last year, Dunc is a young, successful, acclaimed musician, band leader, sound engineer and all round know all! Trained by
NASA ( Northampton Association of Sound Anoraks ) - he has many credits to his name - a fourth wife, three kids, three legs and three strings on his bass guitar, which is one more than he can use.

But seriously……many years with a professional touring sound rental company helped complete my 'apprenticeship' in the music biz and gave me the inspiration to launch Phoenix. To all my pro-audio mates ( still working or retired ! ) thanks, you know who you are.

Born a local boy into a family of poachers, Stevie learned how to write by reading graffitti on the bus station wall. Educated at the local establishment of criminal minds Trinity Upper school, Steve left with at least one O'level in 1984. After a series of extremely successful careers (lawnmower spares storeman?, roofer) and a bout of executive stress he dropped out (man) and got into a shed load of debt by studying for a degree in the particularly interesting field of computer software development - then used his Honours to help Dunc set up Phoenix - er..yeh!

Stevie has been playing the guitar since he swapped his ZX spectrum that he didn't understand for a Les Paul copy which to this day he still doesn't understand. He continues to play the guitar badly and hurt peoples ears in the demo room. Stevie has been using computers to make music since 1993 and still has no idea what he is doing....thank you Northampton and good night.

'CLICKS & MORTAR'

'Hi and welcome to phoenixsoundworks.com and many thanks for taking time to visit our site. This site is intended to be complimentary to our Northants based store, which is not a mail order only operation. We aim to provide an extraordinary level of personal service and for this reason you will not find a shopping cart / order form on our site, but use it for reference, phone us and the guy you speak to will be the guy who deals with your enquiry from start to finish, and beyond. Better still, if you feel it is within travelling distance, please visit our premises, we're easy to get to from anywhere and we're sure you'll be glad you did.'

We enjoy what we do, we have fun and a strange sense of humour (our individual descriptions no exception!) But at the same time we take our work very seriously and take great pride in seeing your requests through to a successful conclusion. Our collective experience spans more years that we care to remember and covers live performance, touring and installed sound systems, studio recording and more. We supply local and 'named' touring bands and acts, schools, colleges, corporate clients and professional audio rental companies to name but a few. With the help of our suppliers, to whom we are very grateful, we are able to fulfil our policy of...

'Quality through service'.

We will match best nationally quoted prices whenever possible

All prices shown on this site are inclusive of VAT. We will endevour to keep prices current but occasionally errors may occur, should this happen it is not one of those scams used by certain unscrupulous music industry traders to get you on the phone and sell you something at a higher price. WE DON'T DO THAT SORT OF THING HERE EDDIE!!