Attila the Stockbroker formed the band Barnstormer in 1994, with the initial aim of combining punk rock and early music, which they did to an extent on their debut album "The Siege of Shoreham" in 1996. Then Barnstormer's line up changed: they turned into a melodic punk band and for the next 22 years performed regularly across Europe, doing over 500 gigs and releasing three further albums, "Just One Life" (2000) "Zero Tolerance" (2004) and "Bankers and Looters" (2012). In 2018 Attila, who has always been interested in the history of the radical movements spawned in the aftermath of the English Civil War, wrote and recorded an album, "Restoration Tragedy" on that theme, combining early music and punk. He changed the name of the band to Barnstormer 1649 (the year of Charles 1st's execution and the revolutionary uprisings by the Levellers and Diggers).