From: oysterband [oysters_at_oysterband_dot_co_dot_uk]
Sent: 17 September 2014 13:10
Subject: oYSTERNEWS - SEPTEMBER 2014
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IN THIS ISSUE Upcoming dates in UK and
Germany, including "Big-Session-on Sea" and
"Kulturflut" JJ's 2nd solo album The matter of Scotland |
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Hi all It's
been a peculiarly rewarding summer for Oysterband - not in the sense of
playing more shows or earning more money (ha!), but because at the start of
the year it felt like we had a mountain to climb to rebuild the band after
Chopper's departure to pursue his solo career. It
feels now, after a string of festivals, that the effort has been
spectacularly well worth it. In place of one musician, we've treated
ourselves to two: that way, we have the bass end pinned down rock-solid at
all times, without ever losing the rich voice of the cello, which we think is
a vital part of the Oyster sound. And Al
Scott and Adrian Oxaal both sing, a bonus. The joke, though, is that we now
have THREE great guitar players on stage, but only one of them currently gets
to play guitar. That may have to lead to further developments? Anyway,
we've enjoyed ourselves, both playing and hanging out with other musos (an
alarming number of them Canadian). Respect to Alan Doyle and Bruce Guthro and
their cohorts for mixing it up with us live at T?nder Festival - not
every well-known performer is happy to go on stage without "proper"
rehearsals! |
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So here
goes for the end of summer, the start of autumn/fall. With lots of songs from
our recent Diamonds On The Water, of course: UK Thu 25 September??? RUNCORN??THE
BRINDLEY THEATRE???0151 907 8360???www.thebrindley.org.uk Fri 26 September???? MATLOCK
BATH??GRAND PAVILION???www.wegottickets.com/event/260946 Sat 27 September??BEXHILL-ON-SEA??DE
LA WARR PAVILION Sun 28 September???BOGNOR
REGIS??ALEXANDRA THEATRE???Southdowns Folk Festival???01243
861 010 Sat 25 October?????? LICHFIELD???LICHFIELD
CATHEDRAL???Lichfield Festival of Folk???01543
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A last
chance to see us in GERMANY for this year (and probably for quite some time
after that): Thu 02 October??????D?SSELDORF???ZAKK???www.zakk.de???www.eventim.de???doors
20:00??????24 Fri 03 October???????64625
BENSHEIM???MUSIKTHEATER REX???www.musiktheater-rex.de Sat 04 October?????HAMBURG???21129
Finkenwerder???KULTURFLUT FESTIVAL |
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John
Jones is currently working on his second solo album, with contributions from
Rowan Godel, Tim Cotterell, Lindsey Oliver and others, and Al Scott
producing. The intended release date is March 2015. It will include many of
the songs John has been performing live with the Ramblers on his walking
tours, plus completely new material. |
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Full
details of our TOUR OF DENMARK in November and the |
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Now
over to our fiddler and co-writer Ian Telfer (born in Falkirk, raised in
Aberdeen) for a few words on a subject close to his heart and attention! "Scotland
votes on IndyRef tomorrow, and by Friday could be negotiating the terms of
its separation from the UK. It's hard to describe how extraordinary it is to
write that sentence: within my adult lifetime the independence project has
gone from a comedy tartan rabbit to a wholly serious political tiger. The
gent who's rumoured to have bet ?800,000 on a No vote must be sweating blood.
I find
myself, like a lot of people, in a conflicted position: I would vote Yes, if
I had a vote?but of course I (quite correctly) don't have a vote, because I
don't live in Scotland at present?and since moving back and paying tax there
is not a practicable option for me, I really have no right to advise anyone
else to vote Yes. All the same: Scottish independence feels like Mrs
Thatcher's last dreadful gift to the UK, the Law of Unintended Consequences
come back to bite the ankles of Westminster, and it's hard not to take a
certain gleeful satisfaction in that. It's a bit like Spike Milligan's
tombstone: "I told you I was ill". Or in this case, very very alienated. What's
exciting is the evident birth in Scotland of high-volume participatory
democracy. How do you get 90% voter turn-out? By people realising that for
once, no two ways about it, their vote counts. There may be bitterness and
recrimination after a close result; we can only hope the spirit lives on of
the line I once admired and stole for a song from the Scots writer and
painter Alasdair Gray (who then cheerfully admitted he had stolen it too,
from the Canadian poet Dennis Lee!) - "work as if you were living in the
early days of a better nation". Amen to
that." (IT) |
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All
the best John,
Alan, Ian, Dil, Al Adrian x OYSTERBAND
c/o
Running Man, PO Box 12018, Coggeshall CO6 1ZJ, UK email:
oysters_at_oysterband_dot_co_dot_uk URL:
www.oysterband.co.uk Twitter:
_at_Oysterband1 |
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