Phil Riley and Neil MercerNeil first began playing music in public in the 1960s in a Cumbrian rock band called The Norsemen, who supplemented their pocket money by playing in some of the roughest youth and social clubs on the west coast. As the folk music revival got under way, he switched with some relief to playing in folk clubs and took up the mandolin and pipes to add to the guitar.Phil started out in folk clubs in the Midlands, doing his first solo gig when he was 16. He tea