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LINKS www.cantweb.co.uk/music/alan_prosser/ Oyster guitarist Alan Prosser's personal website Website for film-maker and photographer Judith Burrows, who did the remarkable shoot for Oysters' MEET YOU THERE fRoots, formerly Folk Roots, magazine. Indispensible 'journal-of-record' for folk and world musics Reviews, online CD sales, gig listings, you name it, with ambitions to be a universal service Day-to-day folk/acoustic events guide for UK Multilingual and frequently-updated site by Petr Doruzka and Ken Hunt covering lots of intriguing things. Currently has a piece (in English) about Oysters' CD launch at http://world.freemusic.cz/index.php/oysterband-go-acoustic Covers exactly the sort of artist booked by the Big Session Festival, including several of those below. Bright & concise Non-commercial magazine-type site, dedicated to folk music in the widest sense. Has good Oysterband pictures in photo-library and much else Ronald Kim Schmøde's site, in English or Danish: folk-rock, Oysters, photographs More Oyster pix, some of them good www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/vonnie/ob.oysterband.html Vonnie's angle, from the other side of the Atlantic oysterband2-subscribe@yahoogroups.com A blank e-mail to the above will connect you to a "burgeoning" discussion group re Oysters. Note we take NO responsibility for the admin or content of this!!
You may also be interested in other people we've worked with at various times. In no particular order: Of course. Steve Knightley and Phil Beer may be the hardest working people on the musical planet . New album "Witness" now available Uillean piper, fiddler, whistle-player, builder, hispanophile, Oyster cohort and all-round fine chap The Church of Chumbawamba Official Levellers site Here you will find McDermott's 2 Hours, Nick Burbridge's outfit with a long, intermittent and interesting history. Check out "Claws & Wings" by "McDermott's 2 Hours v Levellers", which is part of each band plus guests doing Nick's songs. Currently he has a new book of poems out, "All KInds Of Disorder" (Waterloo Samplers No. 13). Wedding-Present-descended Leeds-based band have a live CD "Drink To My Horse", which includes a track, Davni Chasy, recorded in Frankfurt on a tour in 1994. Somewhere in the mix are Oysterband (and indeed Rev Hammer). You may know this song under its English title, made famous by one Mary Hopkin..... En español. Folk-rock to combat-rock. ¡¡Insumisión!! Among other claims to fame Great Big Sea did a very successful cover of Oysters' "When I'm Up I Can't Get Down" a few years ago, which had the video channels in Canada in a stranglehold for a few happy weeks The Men They Couldn't Hang (could they??) The Barra MacNeils have a cover of "By Northern Light" on a recent album, and it has the great charm of sounding nothing like Oysters' own version For it is he. (Tho' sometimes lately it's been Woody Guthrie.) The Waifs: a charming hi-energy Australian acoustic folk-pop thing who tour whole hemispheres for months on end, as Oz exports tend to have to do. We met 'em in Canada. A big deal in Australia. The very wonderful voice and fiddle-playing of Eliza Carthy, who deserves to be rated as a songwriter as well as as the scion of the Waterson-Carthy English trad dynasty Some reckon Jim is the future of folky music because he knows one end of a laptop and a sampler from the other. But if he is, it'll more likely be down to the usual timeless skills - strong singing, great keyboards and guitar. Maker of violins and violas (and various things in-between) to the stars. And also to I Telfer, E Carthy etc etc More when we get round to it. Let us know if any of the above stop working. (thanks Vonnie)
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