fRoots poll
and Mojo 2011 Folk Album Of The Year  for Ragged Kingdom with June Tabor.
And over the years, 5 times BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards winners, hey!
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collage with Sean
       collage by Volker Neumann




Welcome to Oysterband's official website..


NEW: 

5 dates in UK in October, including Manchester Folk Festival 

and

Costa Festival in Ibiza 25.04.2024 tp 01.05.2024  


More new dates soon








Our latest album READ THE SKY is available (as CD or Download) from the usual places. 

CDs can also be bought  direct from the band at concerts and via this website that you're reading, http://www.oysterband.co.uk/shipchoice.asp


DOWNLOADS are available from iTunes, Amazon etc.

It was a strange job recording this one!  But it seems to have been very well received. We hope you enjoy the fruit of our labours.

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And by popular demand
we have a new T-SHIRT based on the  READ THE SKY CD cover  -  our first for a while. Available, of course, from our online shop as well as at shows.


200 gsm quality cotton, with a beautifully printed (and expensive!) 10-screen process to preserve the subtlety of the image.

Currently availabe in sizes

S  -  chest 34-36" / 86-91cm

M -  38-40" / 96-101cm

L  -  42-44" / 106-111cm

XL - 46-48" / 116-122cm

XXL -  50-52" / 127-132cm








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Best of the
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Every year from 1986, fRoots magazine asked a large international panel of experts – over 300 in recent times – to nominate the Album Of The Year.

After they announced the results of the 30th annual fRoots Critics Poll for Albums Of The Year in December, the magazine invited the public to vote online for their one favourite album out of all the winners and runners up in every year’s Critics Poll since it began in 1986, 120 albums in all.

And after a massive entry for the Best Of The Best, the placings were:

1. BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB Buena Vista Social Club (World Circuit) 1997

2. PAUL SIMON Graceland (Warners) 1986

3. BELLOWHEAD Hedonism (Navigator) 2010

4. JUNE TABOR & OYSTERBAND Ragged Kingdom (Topic) 2011

5. OYSTERBAND Holy Bandits (Cooking Vinyl) 1993

6. EMILY PORTMAN Hatchling (Furrow) 2012

7. ELIZA CARTHY Anglicana (Topic) 2002

8. THE HOME SERVICE Alright Jack (Making Waves) 1986

9. AURELIO Landini (Real World) 2014

10. JIM MORAY Low Culture (NIAG) 2008

Massive thanks to everyone who voted for us… only one act with two entries in the top ten!




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New in the online shop  -  the return of the Oysterband Badge.  We found one on an ancient leather jacket (sigh...) and remembered we used to really like them many years ago.  Finally we've had some manufactured again, in hand-enamelled nickel  -  they look slightly different now, but the quality is better.  And the little running man is still running.

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We're very pleased to say the LYRICS section of this website is now up and running at last.  Our thanks to Giolla Decair and Caz White, who did most of the work.  At 150+ songs it was no small task.  Now we can resolve those dressing-room arguments about "How did that one go??".....though possibly not the ones about which key it was in.

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     (A version of) Oysterband in 2015 at Bow Lake AB, Canada. Happy days...   Photo: Ben Malone
 




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READ THE SKY

THE LATEST OYSTERBAND STUDIO ALBUM




"...they tackle their task with rare urgency and valour, John Jones' voice still magnificent, and the tough arrangements and musical barrage around him delivered with blistering gusto."
                            -  Mojo ****

"A soundtrack for our times."

                            -  Folk London


And here's a track from it  -





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UPCOMING TOUR DATES:

 


2023

OYSTERBAND:

Aug 20  Beautiful Days  Escot Park,
  nr Exeter  [UK]   SOLD OUT

Aug 26  Folk Festival  Shrewsbury  [UK]


OYSTERBAND3 (acoustic):

Sept 15  Banterfest  Welbourn, Lincs  [UK]



OYSTERBAND:


Oct 20  Warwick Arts Centre  Coventry  [UK]

Oct 21  Stoller Hall  Manchester Folk Festival 
  [UK]
Oct 22  Brudenell Social Club  Leeds  [UK]

Oct 24  The Stables  Milton Keynes  [UK]

Oct 25  Wylam Brewery  Newcastle  [UK]



2024


Apr 25 to May 01  Ibiza  Costa Festival   [ES]

























   ALAN PROSSER solo dates


   JOHN JONES AND THE
  
RELUCTANT RAMBLERS
   See John's website at www.jj-rr.org