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Tønder 30.08.25
                                                                    End of the show: Tønder Festival, Denmark, 30th August 2025
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We have retired as a touring act.


We know now what David Bowie meant, near the end of his life, when he was quoted as saying "It was all good.  Even the bad bits were good."

The Long Long Goodbye Tour turned out to be the best possible way to sign off  -  whatever  memories any of us was carrying of disappointments, disagreements, years when we barely   made ends meet, became part of a bigger, deeper story.

To stand on stages and hear a crowd of sometimes thousands sing back to us songs we'd     written is a very powerful experience;  it felt like a validation of *everything* that went into them. Yes, they really did mean a lot to a lot of people, and it felt  -  feels  -  as if we have many more friends out there than we could ever get round to meeting in person.

Oysterband have not gone away.  We'll keep you posted from time to time on our news, and you have many ways to keep in touch with us.  We look forward to that. 

If you're not already signed up to our occasional newsletter, you can do it at Email List (above left).

Our thanks go to everyone who played and sang with us over the years; everyone who worked on our career and on our recordings and live shows; and to our significant others, who put up with all the craziness.

And most of all to you.  It turns out we had the most valuable of all the qualities a band can have. We were lucky.
                                     
           
                                                                              Alan, John, Ian xx







Our latest album READ THE SKY is available as CD from the usual places, and from this website.    http://www.oysterband.co.uk/shipchoice.asp

DOWNLOADS are available from iTunes, Amazon etc.
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We're  pleased to say the LYRICS section of this website is up and running.  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 arguments about "How did that one go??"  Though maybe not the ones about which key it was in.
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     (Another version of) Oysterband in 2015 at Bow Lake AB, Canada. Happy days...  
    Photo: Ben  Malone
 



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READ THE SKY

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"...they tackle their task with rare urgency and valour, John Jones' voice still magnificent, and the tough arrangements and musical barrage around him delivered with blistering gusto."
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