Attila the Stockbroker

John Baine, better known by his stage name Attila the Stockbroker, is an English punk poet, multi instrumentalist musician and songwriter. He performs solo and as the leader of the band Barnstormer 1649, who combine early music and punk. He has performed over 4000 concerts, published ten books of poems, an autobiography and in 2021 his Collected Works spanning 40 years. He has released over forty recordings. From the late 1990s through the early 2010s, Baine was heavily involved in the battle to save the English football club Brighton & Hove Albion F.C.