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photo: Graham Whitmore 
Welcome to
Oysterband's official website....
....where we have news to impart: we're going to retire as a touring act. But we're going to take some time about it! To quote ourselves it's
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....where we have news to impart: we're going to retire as a touring act. But we're going to take some time about it! To quote ourselves it's
A LONG LONG GOODBYE
We've set up a
page at
alonglonggoodbye.live
alonglonggoodbye.live
where you'll
find links to tickets
for all remaining shows from January 2025
onwards (except summer
festivals), plus news and further dates.
Our final dates together with the great June Tabor finished on Oct 20th. They were followed by a further 20 Oysterband-only shows in November and December, and that is the end of our touring in UK.
Details of some one-offs in UK, farewell tours in Denmark and Germany and various festivals are listed on the right → →
Our final dates together with the great June Tabor finished on Oct 20th. They were followed by a further 20 Oysterband-only shows in November and December, and that is the end of our touring in UK.
Details of some one-offs in UK, farewell tours in Denmark and Germany and various festivals are listed on the right → →
We mean to enjoy every last minute!
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Our latest album READ THE SKY is
available (as CD or Download) from the usual
places.
CDs can also be bought direct from the band at concerts and via this website that you're reading, http://www.oysterband.co.uk/shipchoice.asp
CDs can also be bought direct from the band at concerts and via this website that you're reading, http://www.oysterband.co.uk/shipchoice.asp
DOWNLOADS are available from
iTunes, Amazon etc.
It was a strange job recording this one! But it seems to have been very well received. We hope you enjoy the fruit of our labours.
______________________________________________________________________It was a strange job recording this one! But it seems to have been very well received. We hope you enjoy the fruit of our labours.
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Every year from 1986, fRoots
magazine asked a large international panel of
experts – over 300 in recent times – to
nominate the Album Of The Year. After they announced the results of the 30th annual fRoots Critics Poll for Albums Of The Year in December, the magazine invited the public to vote online for their one favourite album out of all the winners and runners up in every year’s Critics Poll since it began in 1986, 120 albums in all. And after a massive entry for the Best Of The Best, the placings were: 1. BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB Buena Vista Social Club (World Circuit) 1997 2. PAUL SIMON Graceland (Warners) 1986 3. BELLOWHEAD Hedonism (Navigator) 2010 4. JUNE TABOR & OYSTERBAND Ragged Kingdom (Topic) 2011 5. OYSTERBAND Holy Bandits (Cooking Vinyl) 1993 6. EMILY PORTMAN Hatchling (Furrow) 2012 7. ELIZA CARTHY Anglicana (Topic) 2002 8. THE HOME SERVICE Alright Jack (Making Waves) 1986 9. AURELIO Landini (Real World) 2014 10. JIM MORAY Low Culture (NIAG) 2008 Massive thanks to everyone who voted for us… only one act with two entries in the top ten! |
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New in the online shop - the return of the Oysterband Badge. We found one on an ancient leather jacket (sigh...) and remembered we used to really like them many years ago. Finally we've had some manufactured again, in hand-enamelled nickel - they look slightly different now, but the quality is better. And the little running man is still running.
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We're very pleased to say the LYRICS section of this website is now up and running at last. Our thanks to Giolla Decair and Caz White, who did most of the work. At 150+ songs it was no small task. Now we can resolve those dressing-room arguments about "How did that one go??".....though possibly not the ones about which key it was in.
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(A
version of) Oysterband in 2015 at Bow Lake AB,
Canada. Happy days... Photo:
Ben Malone
