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Oyster band at the Wickham Festival 2006
Oyster band at the Wickham Festival 2006
General information
origin Canterbury , England
Genre (s) Folk rock
founding 1976
Website www.oysterband.co.uk
Current occupation
John Jones (since 1976)
Guitar , vocals
Alan Prosser (since 1976)
Violin , concertina , singing
Ian Telfer (since 1976)
Drums , vocals
Dil Davies (since 2008)
Drums
Pete Flood (since 2016)
Al Scott (since 2013)
Bass, cello
Adrian Oxaal (since 2013)
former members
singing
Cathy Lesurf (1976-1980)
Guitar, bouzouki , harmonica
Chris Taylor (1976-1984)
Will Ward (1978-1980)
bass
Ian Kearey (1976–1978; 1981–1988)
bass
Chris Wood (1976-1980)
Drums
Russell Lax (1986-1990)
Drums
Lee Partis (1990-2008)
Bass, cello, vocals
Ray Cooper ("Chopper") (1988-2013)
The Oysterband live

The Oysterband (originally Oyster Band ) is a British folk-rock band, formed around 1976 in Canterbury . By 2004 the band had already given over 2,300 concerts.

history

Beginnings

The band emerged from two older bands, namely the

  • Whitstable Oyster Co. Ceilidh Band (founded in 1975), as well
  • Fiddler's Dram , which was founded in 1973 by Daves Arbus (made famous for his work on Baba O'Riley ) and which also included Alan Prosser and Ian Telfer and later Cathy Lesurf, Chris Taylor and, from 1978, Will Ward, and the in 1979 they had a top 3 hit with Day Trip To Bangor .

They finally released their first album Jack's Alive in 1980 under the band name Oyster Ceilidh Band . Then three members left the band. Will Ward, Cathy Lesurf, who joined the Albion Band , and Chris Wood, who went to Canada and was replaced by founding member Ian Kearey.

This line-up - John Jones, Alan Prosser, Ian Telfer, Chris Taylor and Ian Kearey - released the following albums under the name The Oyster Band (sometimes the article was omitted) on their own label Pukka Music : English Rock N Roll: The Early Years 1800-1850 (1982), Lie Back and Think of England (1983), 20 Golden Tie-slackeners (1984) and Liberty Hall (1985), on which Chris Taylor is only listed as a guest (for two songs) because he left the band in 1984.

Cooking vinyl

In 1986, the band signed Russell Lax for the first time and released the very first album, Step Outside, on the newly founded Cooking vinyl label (COOK 001). Step Outside , like its predecessor Liberty Hall , contained mostly self-written titles, often with a political theme, but also several post-production of traditionals like Hal-an-Tow . In 1988 Ian Kearey left the band and was replaced by Ray "Chopper" Cooper, who first appeared on the album Ride .

In 1990 there were two special features in the Oysterband discography. In March, the band released the album Little Rock To Leipzig , the half of the studio and half live recordings existed (incl. Cover versions of Phil Ochs , The Crickets and Kay Sutcliffe) and in July came Freedom And Rain out the was recorded with June Tabor and was named one of the 10 best folk albums of the decade by Mojo Magazine. It also contained several covers by The Pogues , Richard Thompson , Billy Bragg , The Velvet Underground , Si Khan and The Albion Band .

breakthrough

The band then changed their name to Oysterband and drummer Lee Partis replaced Russell Lax in 1990. The album Deserters , which was released in 1992, also contained the song Granite Years , which was also recorded together with the Spanish band Celtas Cortos and released as a single. Celtas Cortos also released a Spanish version of this track ( Vida Gris ), which led the Oysterband two years later to record an English version of their hit 20 de Abril ( 20th of April ).

In 1993 the breakthrough came with Holy Bandits and pushed the band to the top of a booming folk-rock scene, along with groups like The Levellers . This album also contains the probably biggest hit of the oyster band When I'm Up I Can't Get Down , which was covered in 1997 by the Canadian band Great Big Sea and also became their biggest hit. (It was the only top 10 position for Great Big Sea in the Canadian singles charts to date .) In the nineties, the Oyster band increasingly took a position on political issues in their titles. In 1995, the heavier album The Shouting End of Life was created , which brought the Oyster band their first chart listing.

These two albums are now also considered folk rock classics. According to Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann from Rock Hard Magazine , they are among the 25 best albums of all time, especially Holy Bandits are "the ultimate in folk rock". Rick Anderson of the Allmusicguide agrees that British folk rock can't be made better. Between these albums, the band played eleven older songs for Trawler in 1994 .

Running man

In 1996, the live CD Alive & Shouting was released on their own label Running Man Records , which was to follow Alive and Acoustic (also on Running Man ) two years later .

Deep Dark Ocean from 1997 was the last album on the Cooking vinyl label. The album, on which the band returned to a softer, more melodic sound, contains popular songs such as Little Brother , Milford Haven , Be My Luck and above all the live standard Native Son and is generally regarded as a good but not outstanding album in the making the band.

In the same year, Alan Prosser's first solo album Hall Place was released and the Oysterband recorded "Farewell to the Crown" with Chumbawamba , which was used as the B-side for the tubthumping single.

In 1998, in addition to Alive and Acoustic, the best-of compilation Pearls From The Oysters was released , which only contains songs from the albums Step Outside (1986), Wide Blue Yonder (1987), Ride (1989) and Litte Rock To Leipzig (1990) (plus two traditionals of the Gone West single (1993)).

plans label

Here I Stand from 1999 was the only regular album on the Running Man label and for the time being the last album by the Oyster band that could position itself in the charts. In Germany the album was released on the Dortmund label plans . The friendly bands Chumbawamba and Great Big Sea could be won as guests . After the more reluctant reactions to Deep Dark Ocean , the reviews were consistently excellent this time.

In 2000, three years after the separation from Cooking Vinyl, they cooperated with the label on the compilation of the comprehensive double CD Granite Years .

In 2002, Rise Above was released, which received similarly rave reviews as its predecessor. The band was assisted by "permanent temporary" member James O'Grady on five of the ten songs on the album.

Anniversary & Big Session

In June 2003 Alan Prosser released his second solo album Makerfield and on December 12, 2003 the concert took place on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the band in the Forum in London in front of about 2000 spectators, which was also released on DVD ( The 25th Anniversary Concert ). June Tabor and Chumbawamba appeared as guests. (Exactly five years later, ie on December 12th, 2008, the 30th anniversary was celebrated in the same place.)

From December 2003 to February 2004 appeared on the Running Man label the EP 25 , and the two parts of the Oyster Origins , namely Before The Flood (Best of 1980-1985), as well as a re-release of the album Twenty Golden Tie Slackeners (with the addition plus namely with two tracks from the album Jack's Alive from 1980).

From May 18-20 , 2004, The Big Session was held at Bush Hall in London with the support of June Tabor, Rose Kemp , Jim Moray, James O'Grady, Eliza Carthy & Ben Ivitsky and members of Show Of Hands and Handsome Family Volume 1 on. The idea of ​​spontaneous jam sessions on stage with other musicians had already been tested on three major tours. A year later, from June 17 to 19, 2005, the band organized the first Big Session Festival at De Montfort Hall in Leicester , which was held there annually until 2010 (June 18 to 20).

2011 took the Big Session Festival from 19 to 21 August as part of the Beautiful Days festival at Escot Park, Devon instead and 2012 is from 15 to 17 June at the Catton Hall in Walton-on-Trent, South Derbyshire organized .

Westpark Music

With the release of The Big Session Volume 1 and the anniversary DVD in 2004, a long collaboration began with the Cologne label Westpark Music .

In 2005 John Jones, Ian Telfer and James O'Grady played on some of the songs on the Chumbawamba album A Singsong and a Scrap , and in late 2006 the Oyster band released an album on their own label called Northern Light , a live recording of an acoustic concert from 1998 to replace the older Alive and Acoustic , which they were no longer allowed to repress.

Meet You There was released in 2007 and the response has been even better than Here I Stand and Rise Above . In contrast to the previous releases, however, this time also metal magazines and webzines were sampled by the label. Although the band was able to win some fans from the metal scene over the years, the band was not prepared for the euphoria that suddenly met them from this scene.

Anniversary & solo albums

The Oxford Girl And Other Stories (2008) was released for the 30th anniversary and contained acoustic versions of old songs. It is the first album to feature new drummer Dilwyn "Dil" Davies, and it was again produced by Al Scott , who has been with the band regularly since 1993 ( Holy Bandits , Trawler , Deep Dark Ocean , Rise Above , Meet You There , 25 (EP), The 25th Anniversary Concert (DVD) and John Jones' Rising Road ).

In 2008 there was again a collaboration with Chumbawamba for "Hull or Hell" from the album The Boy Bands Have Won , for which the Oysterband contributed the vocals. In 2009 John Jones released his first solo album titled Rising Road and in 2010 Ray Cooper's solo album Tales Of Love War & Death By Hanging followed .

From February to March 2011 the band recorded the album Ragged Kingdom together with June Tabor at Rockfield Studios , the follow-up to Freedom & Rain from 1990, which was released on September 9, 2011. In Great Britain, the album was released on September 19th via Topic Records and reached number 59 on the UK charts. Ragged Kingdom was also named 2011 album of the year in the fRoots Critics Poll and Folk Album of the year in Mojo magazine. This collaboration also won four BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards , namely "Folk Singer of the Year" (June Tabor), "Best Group" (Oysterband & June Tabor), "Best Album" (Ragged Kingdom) and "Best Traditional Track "(Bonny Bunch of Roses).

In November 2012, the band announced that Ray Cooper would leave the band in February 2013 to focus on his solo career. Adrian Oxaal, former guitarist of the band James , and Al Scott, who also produced the following album Diamonds on the Water , which was released on February 17, 2014, took over his post .

Discography

Albums

year Band name title format Remarks Label Charts
UK
1978 Fiddler's Dram To see the play LP - Things -
1980 Fiddler's Dram LP - -
Oyster

Ceilidh band

Jack's Alive LP - -
1982 Oyster band English rock 'n' roll:

The Early Years 1800-1850

LP - Pukka -
1983 Lie Back And Think Of England LP - -
1984 20 golden tie slackeners LP / CD CD see "Others" -
1985 Liberty Hall LP - -
1986 Step Outside LP / CD - Cooking vinyl -
1987 Wide Blue Yonder LP / CD - -
1989 Ride LP / CD - -
1990 Freedom & Rain (with June Tabor) LP / CD - -
1992 Oyster ribbon Deserters LP / CD - -
1993 Holy bandits CD - -
1995 The Shouting End of Life CD - 96
1997 Deep Dark Ocean CD - 123
1999 Here I stand CD feat. Chumbawamba

and Great Big Sea

Running

Man

170
2002 Rise Above CD feat. James O'Grady plans -
2007 Meet you there CD - West Park -
2011 Ragged Kingdom (with June Tabor) CD - 59
2014 Diamonds on the Water CD - navigator 51

Solo projects

year Musician title Remarks Label
1997 Alan Prosser Hall Place - Rafting

Dog

2003 Makerfield -
2006 Prosser , Power & Randall Nomads - Cellar Sessions May 2006 -
2009 John Jones Rising Road - West Park
2010 Ray Cooper Tales Of Love War & Death By Hanging -
2017 Alan Prosser & Al Clarke Roomful of Light - Rafting

Dog

2018 Alan Prosser 5/4 AP -
2019 Alan Prosser & Al Clarke Living in Clover -

Singles and EPs

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Day Trip To Bangor
  UK 3 December 15, 1979 (9 weeks)
year Band name title format Remarks
1979 Fiddler's Dram Day Trip To Bangor LPS c / w The Flash Lad (1979); c / w Peel The Tatties (1980)
1980 Beer Cart Lane LPS c / w Ythanside
1981 Black Hole LPS c / w Agony
Little Ray Of Sunshine LPS c / w Sweet Chiming Bells
1986 Oyster band Hal-An-Tow LPS c / w Edward II & The Red Hot Polkas - Ashes To Ashes
1987 Rose Of England LPS c / w Dawn Run
1988 The Early Days Of A Better Nation LPS c / w The Oxford Girl
1989 I Fought The Law LPS c / w Spend The Night
The Lost And Found (Remix) LPS c / w MacLeod's Reel / The Generals Are Born Again (Intro) / Between The Wars /

A Change Is Gonna Come (12 "); c / w A Change Is Gonna Come (7")

New York girls LPS c / w My Dog ; c / w My Dog / Galopede
Love vigilantes LPS Original: New Order (1985); c / w Polish Plain (7 ");

c / w Polish Plain / I Fought The Law / Between The Wars (10 ")

1992 Oyster ribbon Granite Years (feat. Celtas Cortos) LPS -
Granite Years (Remix) CDS c / w Curragh Of Kildare / Star Of The County Down / Hangman Cry
Fiddle or a gun LPS -
All That Way For This LPS -
1993 Gone West CDS c / w After London / Star Of The County Down / Curragh Of Kildare
1994 Cry Cry CDS c / w Blood Wedding / Bells Of Rhymney / Hangman Cry ;

c / w After London / Star Of The County Down / Curragh Of Kildare

20th of April CDS Original: Celtas Cortos - 20 de April (1991)
Oxford girl CDS c / w 20th of April / Hal-An-Tow
1995 Long Dark Street CDS c / w Sticks & Stones / Hallelujah / The Sailor's Bonnet
1996 Everywhere I Go CDS c / w Sticks & Stones / Hallelujah / The Sailor's Bonnet
One Green Hill LPS c / w Jam Tomorrow (12 ")
1997 Sail On By CDS c / w Be My Luck / One Green Hill / Jam Tomorrow
1999 This Is The Voice (Single Edit) CDS c / w On The Edge (Single Edit & Mix) /

The False Knight On The Road / Funny Time Of Life

Street Of Dreams (Single Edit) CDS c / w This Is The Voice (Single Edit)
Street Of Dreams CDS c / w This Town
On The Edge (Single Edit) CDS c / w This Is The Voice / In Your Eyes
2000 Ways Of Holding On

(Waiting For The Sun)

CDS Ways Of Holding On (Waiting For The Sun) feat. Emma Hardelin

c / w On The Edge / Ways Of Holding On / Someone You Might Have Been

2002 The Soul's Electric CDS c / w Blackwaterside
2003 Rise Above CDS -
25th CD-EP 7-Song EP feat. June Tabor at Factory Girl and

James O'Grady at Road To Nowhere (Original: Talking Heads )

2007 Here Comes The Flood CDS Here Comes The Flood (Radio Version) c / w Dancing As Fast As I Can

(Radio Version) / Dancing As Fast As I Can (Album Version)

2012 Love Will Tear Us Apart LPS / CDS c / w Fountains Flowing (with June Tabor)

Other publications

year title format Remarks Label
1990 Little Rock To Leipzig LP / CD Side 1: Studio / Side 2: Live Cooking vinyl
1992 Oyster band VHS Recorded in the Capitol, Hanover on May 2, 1992 ! K7 (Studio K7)
1994 trawler CD Best of 1986 - 1994 (with new recordings of old songs) Cooking vinyl
1996 Alive & Shouting CD Live album; February 1, 1996, Aarhus

and November 15, 1995, Stockholm

Running man
1998 Pearls From The Oysters 2 CD Best of 1986 - 1990 Snapper
Alive and Acoustic CD Live album (acoustic) Running man
2000 Granite Years 2 CD Best of 1986-1997 Cooking vinyl
2003 Twenty Golden Tie-Slackeners Plus

(Oyster Origins 2)

CD CD release of the album 20 Golden Tie-

Slackeners from 1984 + 2 songs from Jack's Alive

Running man
2004 Before The Flood (Oyster Origins 1) CD Best of 1980-1985
The Big Session Volume 1 CD Live album; May 18-20, 2004, London West Park
The 25th Anniversary Concert DVD feat. June Tabor, Chumbawamba and James O'Grady
2006 Northern Light CD Live album (acoustic); 5th and 6th September 1998, Aalborg Running man
2008 The Oxford Girl And Other Stories CD Acoustic re-recordings of old songs
2016 This House Will Stand 2 CD Best of 1998 - 2015 navigator
2019 Fire & Fleet CD Studio & Live Running man

The Big Session Volume 1 feat. June Tabor, Rose Kemp, Jim Moray, James O'Grady, Eliza Carthy & Ben Ivitsky and members of Show Of Hands and Handsome Family.

Web links

Commons : Oysterband  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Folk World: Live Review January 2003
  2. Oysterband @ Coda Music Agency ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.codaagency.com
  3. Charts Canada: Great Big Sea ( Memento of the original from April 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved April 1, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.collectionscanada.gc.ca
  4. The best records of all time - Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann ; Rock Hard, No. 252
  5. Holy Bandits Review ; Allmusic. Accessed April 1
  6. JMI: Oyster Volume
  7. ^ Oyster volume biography
  8. Interview with John Jones ; Metal.de, March 22, 2007
  9. fRoots: Critics Poll 2011 ( memento of the original from December 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.frootsmag.com
  10. Rocklist: Mojo End Of Year 2011
  11. BBC: Radio 2 Folk Awards
  12. Charts UK: Oysterband , accessed on March 20, 2011.
  13. Charts UK: Ragged Kingdom , accessed March 12, 2014.
  14. Charts UK: Diamonds on the Water , accessed March 12, 2014.
  15. Charts UK