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.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 shoot for Oysters' MEET YOU THERE
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)
