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Oysterband at
Bow Lake AB, Canada
Photo: Ben Malone
Welcome to Oysterband's official website...
To be released on 27 May:
.....and we'll have copies of THIS HOUSE WILL STAND: the best of Oysterband 1998-2015 on sale at
THE BIG SESSION 2016
29 April - 01 May
at Buxton, Derbyshire
In a single mighty bound we're going from one day to three nights and two days, Friday 29 April to Sunday 01 May.
TICKETS AVAILABLE:
OYSTERBAND with JUNE TABOR + SAM CARTER
SETH LAKEMAN + LUCY WARD
EDWARD II + GREN BARTLEY
EMILY PORTMAN TRIO
WILL POUND and EDDY JAY
THE BIG SESSION CEILIDH with OYSTERBAND and GUESTS
but
WEEKEND TICKETS are SOLD OUT
plus music sessions; a huge beer hall with more than 100 real ales; a ramble in the hills round Buxton led by John Jones; a birding trip; and a Folk Train from Manchester!
BOX OFFICE 01298 72190 buxtonoperahouse.org.uk
Read more here.
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Every year since 1986, fRoots
magazine has 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 are: 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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Oysterband singer John Jones' second solo album Never Stop Moving (Westpark Music 87277) is available from our online shop.
There are 11 tracks, 8 songs by John and 3 traditional, and the album features his regular Reluctant Ramblers - Benji Kirkpatrick, Lindsey Oliver, Tim Cotterell, Rowan Godel, Al Scott, Boff Whalley.
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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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Here's a little studio clip of "A Clown's Heart", the first track on the current album Diamonds On The Water:
DIAMONDS ON
THE WATER
The latest Oysterband studio album Diamonds On The Water is our first collection of entirely new material in (gulp!) 7 years.
Naturally CDs are available from our website shop as well as from Navigator Records www.navigatorrecords.co.uk/artists/oysterband and your usual retail outlets. Buy early, buy often!
Downloads are available at https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/diamonds-on-the-water/id771969865?uo=4&at=10l9qC (whole album only). And you can view the CD booklet and digipak images here.
"From beginning to end, Diamonds On The Water is quite, quite brilliant." Folk Radio
"You know this will become one of the Oysters' best-loved albums..." fRoots
"Gefühlvoll und äußerst melodiös" Musikansich.de
"...unglaublich eindrucksvoll und schön." Legacy
""Revamped and revitalised Oysterband produce their best CD in years...song- writing, playing and arranging out of the top drawer" Maverick ***** (5-stars)
- and who are we to disagree?
Tracks are:
A Clown's Heart
A River Runs
Spirit Of Dust
Lay Your Dreams Down Gently
Diamonds On The Water
The Wilderness
Palace Of Memory
Once I Had A Sweetheart
No Ordinary Girl
Call You Friend
Steal Away
Like A Swimmer In The Ocean
You can hear most of these new songs live at any of our upcoming gigs, so get your tickets now!
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Introducing........
THE OYSTERBAND PHONE APP
-- available free in Android and iPhone versions from the relevant App Stores, also via the button second down on the right on this page --
and
THE WIDGET
-- brought to you by the fine folks at ReverbNation, ever on the lookout for ways to help bands promote their music online.
It's a cunning little device, including songs, videos, reviews, contacts to buy tickets, gig-list, map, and more. It's designed to be easily copied, shared, posted and passed on, as you'll see if you hit the "Share" button below.
So you can put it on your own website or blog or social networking page and convert your friends to Oystermusic. When they say "What's the band like, then?" you now have a snappy answer!
And best of all, the widget is "live". So when we change the songs or add new live dates, that automatically updates every copy of the widget that has been posted anywhere else - how smart is that?
It's all in there - go on, have a play with it........
