The third album to be released by Haworth performer Tim Moon is actually his first.

And the second album recorded by the singer, musician and poet never saw the light of day.

Such apparent oddities are nothing unusual for a man who plays more than 60 instruments and wrote 100 poems to celebrate the turn of the century.

The folk club regular has also been known to wear multi-coloured outfits while playing in the street, and recently found himself the unlikely idol of young grunge-rock fans.

These are just some of the milestones for a man who began his musical career at the age of five playing piano duets with his grandmother at the British Legion in Shelf.

Tim, 49, of Bridgehouse Lane, Haworth, released the critically-acclaimed album Anger and Kiss two years ago and has now followed it with the release of No Amnesty!

The CD is a collection of songs written by Tim that was originally released on cassette tape in 1985. No Amnesty! was Tim's album debut and featured songs recorded for Nigel Schofield's weekly folk show on Pennine Radio.

Tim says: "The CD version is exactly the same, but it's cleaned up. We thought of putting bonus tracks on but decided to leave it the same.

"The original tape went to every continent on the planet - including behind the Iron Curtain. You couldn't sell things there, so we swapped it for this guy's book."

Tim planned a follow-up album soon afterwards, but Critical Backlash never saw the light of day after Pennine became Pulse and dropped the folk show.

By the time Nigel Schofield built a home studio and Tim recorded some tracks, tapes were being overshadowed by compact discs and Tim felt his style didn't fit the new medium.

A second album eventually followed 15 years later, and then only because Tim was offered free recording time by a friend setting up a new studio.

Anger and Kiss featured mostly new songs, some of which were taken up by other artists including folk goddess Norma Waterson.

Such support came as just reward after a four-decade musical career that began in earnest when 10-year-old Tim and his pals set-up in opposition to The Beatles using biscuit tins as drums.

A decade later came his first proper band Argy Bargy, followed by Yorkshire Miracle - their single Camra Song becoming almost a standard - and a duo with Pete Watson.

He began playing solo in folk clubs - "I was probably pretty bad," he says - leading into the 80s when he regularly guested on Pennine Radio.

Nowadays Tim presents his own radio shows for Bradford Community Broadcasting, covering folk every Monday (8-10pm) and a mix of politics, transport, arts and Dr Who every Thursday (7-8pm).

Local broadcasts are on Yorkshire Cable (channel 104) - soon to be joined by 96.7FM - and he has listeners across the world via the Internet.

Tim, whose day job is as a college lecturer, regularly performs his solo set at venues like Bradford's Love Apple and 1 in 12 Club.

He still performs as Moon de Lune with Paedar Long, occasionally expanding to become Irish outfit Mad Mix, and he writes for folk magazine Tykes' News.

He features on two other newly-released albums: Ephemera 1, showcasing spoken work from the Sowerby Bridge-based Puzzle Hall Poets, and Will You Be My Friend? containing education songs for primary schools.

Tim plans to eventually release another solo album - this time called Hidden Gullies and including some of the songs originally recorded for Critical Backlash.

And in true Moon style, the recording time will be provided as thanks for Tim dressing up as Santa Claus last Christmas!

l No Amnesty! is on sale at Reids Bookshop and Offshoots Wholefoods, both in Cavendish Street, Keighley.