Oysterband Links List
www.MySpace.com/oysterband
Our other outlet
www.counsellingoffenders.org.uk
Website by our former drummer, Lee Partis, who is now
working in a
prison in the north of England and campaigns for the use
of counselling
in prisons (a poorly funded area of public policy).
www.myspace.com/makerfield
Alan's personal page…
www.MySpace.com/johnjonesoyster
…John's….
www.MySpace.com/dildavies
…Dil's…
www.MySpace.com/raycooperchopper
…and, yes, Chopper's
www.jj-rr.org
John's website specifically for his "rambling" tours,
where he walks from venue to venue and invites audiences
to join him (not compulsory, though!).
www.folkagainstfascism.com
The British National Party's "Activists' and Organisers'
Handbook"
encourages its members to insinuate themselves into the
folk and
traditional customs and entertainments of Britain. They
propose to
appropriate British folk music and dance as a means of
spreading their
odious brand of racism and intolerance. Folk Against
Fascism is not
itself a party, but an awareness campaign -
why on earth
should loving the roots of your own culture involve hating
anyone
else's??
www.flarefilms.co.uk
Website for film-maker and photographer Judith Burrows,
who did the
remarkable shoots for Oysters' MEET YOU THERE and June
Tabor/Oysters' RAGGED KINGDOM
www.frootsmag.com
fROOTS, formerly Folk Roots, magazine. Indispensible
'journal-of-record' for folk and world musics
www.tradmusic.com
Reviews, online CD sales, gig listings, you name it, with
ambitions to
be a universal service
www.folkandroots.co.uk
Day-to-day folk/acoustic events guide for UK
world.freemusic.cz
Multilingual and frequently-updated site by Petr Doruzka
and Ken Hunt
covering lots of intriguing things.
www.spiralearth.co.uk/music
Covers exactly the sort of artist booked by the Big
Session Festival,
including several of those below. Bright & concise
www.folking.com
Non-commercial magazine-type site, dedicated to folk music
in the
widest sense. Has good Oysterband pictures in
photo-library and much
else
www.properdistribution.com
The company that has put all Oyster recordings out since
1999,
including the current ones. (That means: everything except
the Cooking
Vinyl CDs.) They also have a folk-world blog that touches
on many of
the artists mentioned below:
rks.homepage.dk
Ronald Kim Schmøde's site, in English or Danish:
folk-rock, Oysters,
photographs
www.oysterband.net
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:
www.showofhands.co.uk
Of course. Steve Knightley and Phil Beer may be the
hardest working
people on the musical planet .
www.james-ogrady.com
Uillean piper, fiddler, whistle-player, hispanophile, Cara
Dillon
cohort and all-round fine chap
www.chumba.com
The Church of Chumbawamba
www.levellers.co.uk
Official Levellers site
www.burbridgearts.org
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).
www.the-ukrainians.com
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…
www.celtascortos.org
En español. Folk-rock to combat-rock. ¡¡Insumisión!!
www.greatbigsea.com
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
listen.to/tmtch
The Men They Couldn't Hang (could they??)
www.barramacneils.com
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
www.billybragg.co.uk
For it is he. (Tho' sometimes lately it's been Woody
Guthrie.)
www.thewaifs.com
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.
www.ralfweihrauch.de
Old mate and sometime agent of Oysterband in Germany. Has
a new album
out, "Hole In One".
www.eliza-carthy.com
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
www.jimmoray.co.uk
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.
www.timsviolins.co.uk
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)
