Alistair Murphy (The Curator) is a British songwriter, record producer and musician. He has released four albums with his band The Half Life as well as solo albums under his own name and his stage name The Curator. He has performed and recorded most consistently with Mark Fletcher and Jez Salmon who play with him in the Band of Perfect Strangers, the backing band of Judy Dyble, from Fairport Convention. As well as recording and producing a host of his own albums under various names he has produced four albums by Judy Dyble and two by Terry Stamp of the cult proto-punk band Third World War. He has also had a long association with Tim Bowness of No-Man, having co-written and produced with Bowness and Dyble, the album Talking with the Strangers. He has contributed to tracks on No-man and Bowness solo albums. His album, “Where the Stars Give Way to the Morning was given five stars by Gavin Martin in the Daily Mirror, describing it as a work of a lifetime and one of the albums of 2018. Murphy was the Curator of the Cromer Museum and co-wrote the book, “Fishermen and Kings, the photography of Olive Edis”. Cromer Museum holds the biggest collection of the work of this pioneering early 20th century photographer. More at www.cromerzone.co.uk