The Incredible String Band

LAWSON GIGS WITH COLUM REGAN BAND

Following on from a sucessful support gig with Richie Havens and Ben Taylor at the Cardiff Big Weekend, the Colum Regan band, featuring Lawson on Keyboards/Harmonium and Sitar, can be seen at the following.....

August 23rd The Musician, Leicester

August 26th Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff

Sept 7th Halfmoon, Herne Hill

Sept 8th Festival24, The Point, Cardiff Bay

MIKE HERON-THE GLEN ROW TAPES (New Quadrant Records release)

In 1977, Mike Heron, formerly of The Incredible String Band and Heron, was still living in the Glen Row Scottish cottage, which had been the Incredible String Bands home and musical headquarters. He recorded a lot of songs between 1977 and 1978, using the home studio located in Glen Row with help from Frank Usher on guitar who had also played with Mike on Heron and Jon Bavin, the session engineer, on bass and keyboards along with a variety of local drummers.

This double CD set contains the complete recordings from these sessions known for years amongst ISB fans as the Glen Row Tapes . These tracks are the fruits of a period when Mike Heron was free from the constraints of having to write songs to fit in with a particular bands repertoire, and so able to explore and experiment with a variety of genres and approaches. The sheer range of material and styles are reminiscent of Dylans Basement Tapes. Long unavailable, the songs have been lovingly remastered by Quadrant Records from the best available CD, cassette and vinyl sources and provide a unique insight into the Heron creative process. A couple of songs date back to ISB days,' Sold on your love', which was released on a rare 7" single and a re- working of Liquid acrobats 'Red Hair' and there's also ' Lost in space', which was from the Heron live set.

27 tracks in total, including a song recorded in 2006 specially for this release though probably written around the same time as the other material. It features a 36 page booklet with detailed liner notes and pictures, and comes in a nice slimcase.

Ref. Q00004-CG

Label: Quadrant Records email: management@quadrantcorner.com

New ISB at the Beeb double CD in the pipeline!

To let you all know that Hux Records has been working with Mike and Robin (and Malcolm!) to put together a new double CD of ISB at the BBC. The first CD is a reissue of the In Concert CD, with unreleased session tracks as bonus recordings. The second CD is almost all sessions. In making selections for this album, we prioritised unreleased material or substantial reworkings, as well as material which has become available in studio quality since the last BBC sessions compilation, On Air, was released in 1991. There are 13 previously unreleased recordings.

Adrian Whittaker has done the liner notes in consultation with Mike, Robin and Malcolm, and there’ll also be a full sessionography, lyrics to unreleased songs etc.

The CDs should be out some time in April – you should be able to pre-order them via the Hux website within the next few days. They won’t be in the shops till some weeks after that date because of the time needed by the distributors.

CD 1 – In Concert

1. Bright Morning Stars (Heron)
2. Worlds They Rise And Fall (Heron
3. Spirit Beautiful (Heron)
4. Willow Pattern (Williamson)
5. Turquoise Blue (Heron)
6. Whistle Tune (Williamson/Le Maistre)
7. Darling Belle (Williamson)
8. You've Been A Friend To Me (A.P. Carter)
9. I Know That Man (Williamson)
10. The Circle Is Unbroken (Williamson)
11. The Old Buccaneer (Williamson)
12. Black Jack David (Heron)

Bonus session tracks:

13. Fine Fingered Hand (Williamson)טּ
14. Everything’s Fine Right Now (Heron) טּ
15. Raga Puti (Trad arr. Heron) טּ
16. Empty Pocket Blues (Palmer) טּ

CD 2 - Sessions

1. All Writ Down (Heron) טּ
2. Dust be Diamonds (Heron/Williamson) טּ
3. Theta (Williamson/Heron) טּ
4. Beautiful Stranger (Heron) טּ
5. Won’t You Come See Me (Williamson) טּ
6. Oh Did I love A Dream (Le Maistre)
7. Secret Temple (McKechnie/Heron) טּ
8. Rends-Moi Demain (Williamson)
9. Dreams Of No Return (Williamson)
10. Jane (Heron)
11. Dear Old Battlefield (Williamson)
12. Log Cabin Home In The Sky (Heron)
13. 1968 (Heron)
14. Medley (Williamson & Heron)

Bonus session tracks:

15. Ring Dance (Williamson) טּ
16. Long Long Road (Heron) טּ
17. Living In The Shadows (Williamson) טּ

Tracks marked טּ are previously unreleased recordings.

Bonus tracks are off-air recordings

21st Sept 2006

Clive Palmer

Clive's gets recognition amidst the greats

Taken from the Elton John and Bernie Taupin article in the Times 15-09-2006..."One of the most
underrated albums of recent years is All Roads Lead to Land (2004) by
the Incredible String Band alumnus Clive Palmer. Far from being a
hindrance — the record has a sonic resemblance to an old-timer trapped
in his own potting shed with nothing but a banjo and three sizeable
tomato plants for sustenance — this is precisely what lends this album
its peculiar appeal. On Baby Sing the Blues and You Were Meant for Me
Palmer sounds like a man vainly attempting to prove Johnny Thunders
wrong when he sang: "You can't put your arms around a memory.""

"All Roads Lead to Land" recorded and produced by Lawson Dando at Albanystudios.

Upcoming Clive and Lawson Gigs

2007

May

24th May Princess Pavilion, Falmouth B/O 01326 211222

25th May Organic Beat/Bar 200, Truro B/O 0871 789 4219

26th May Assembly rooms, Glastonbury B/O 01392 667080

27th May Landmark Theatre, Ilfracombe B/O 01271 324242

www.amplifeyeshop.com Tickets will be on sale shortly

Sept

Moseley Folk Festival

Lawson...... live gigs with Clive Palmer,also Colum Regan and Kerry Sanson.

Albany Studios.... Refurb almost finished, new live room, refurbished band room, New tube Mix desk enroute......... instruments galore, The studio now has the following instruments in house.... Keyboards, Samplers and modules, Indian harmonium, Martin om16, Martin dreadnought, Portugese guitara, Fender Squire Jazz Bass, Lapsteel, Dobro, McNallypluckstick, Sitar, Israj, Dulcima, E-bow plus various percussion. All available to be played by clients or Lawson.