June Tabor is an English folk singer known for her solo work and her earlier collaborations with Maddy Prior and with Oysterband.
The Albion Band, also known as The Albion Country Band, The Albion Dance Band, and The Albion Christmas Band, is a British folk rock band, originally brought together and led by musician Ashley Hutchings. An important grouping in the genre, it has contained or been associated with a large proportion of major English folk performers in its long and fluid history.
Chris Wood is an English songwriter and composer who plays fiddle, viola and guitar, and sings. He is a practitioner of traditional English dance music, including Morris and other rituals and ceremonies, but his repertoire also includes much French folk music and traditional Québécois material. He worked for many years in a duo with button accordion/melodeon player Andy Cutting: Wood & Cutting were one of the most influential acts on the English folk music scene. Q Magazine gave their "Live at Sidmouth" album four stars and put the duo "at the forefront of the latest wave of British music acts". One of his first recordings was playing bass and percussion on "Jack's Alive" (1980) the first album by the Oysterband.
Fiddler's Dram were a British folk band of the late 1970s, most widely known for their 1979 hit single, "Day Trip to Bangor ", which reached no. 3 on the UK Singles Chart.
A Singsong and a Scrap is the 12th studio album by Chumbawamba released in 2005. It shows more folk influence than their previous album Un and features guest appearances from folk musicians such as Coope Boyes and Simpson, Andy Cutting and John Jones and Ian Telfer of Oysterband. The first single to be taken from the album is "Fade Away".
Rise Above is an album by British folk music group Oysterband, released in 2002.
Here I Stand is a 1999 album by British folk-rock band Oysterband. It is their 17th studio album.
Deep Dark Ocean is a 1997 album by British folk rock band Oysterband.
The Shouting End of Life is an album by the British folk rock group Oysterband, released in 1995. The album was vehemently political, and showed a much harder, punkier side than previous albums.
Holy Bandits is a 1993 album by British folk rock band Oysterband. The album features the original version of the song "When I'm Up ", which became a top ten hit in Canada for the folk group Great Big Sea in 1997.
Freedom and Rain is a 1990 album by British folk rock band Oysterband and singer June Tabor. The album features a mixture of traditional material and contemporary covers including "Lullaby of London" by Shane MacGowan, "All Tomorrow's Parties" by Lou Reed, "Valentine's Day Is Over" by Billy Bragg and "Night Comes In" by Richard Thompson.
Ride is a 1989 album by British folk rock band Oysterband. The album features a cover of the New Order song "Love Vigilantes".
Wide Blue Yonder is a 1987 album by British folk rock band Oysterband. As well as traditional material it features covers of "Between the Wars" by Billy Bragg and "The Rose of England" by Nick Lowe. The album is produced by Clive Gregson.
Step Outside is a 1986 album by British folk rock band The Oyster Band. The album was the first release of Cooking Vinyl records. The album was chosen as one of the 50 best of the year in Q Magazine.
Little Rock to Leipzig is a 1990 album by British folk-rock band Oysterband. The album is a mixture of live and studio recordings, also a mixture of traditional songs, original recordings and covers of contemporary songs including "I Fought the Law" by Sonny Curtis and "Gonna Do What I Have to Do" by Phil Ochs.
The Oxford Girl and Other Stories is a 2008 acoustic compilation album by British folk rock band Oysterband.
Cathy Lesurf is a British folk music singer-songwriter who was brought up in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. She has been a member of bands in the 1970s such as Oyster Ceilidh Band, Fiddler's Dram, and The Albion Band. She released a solo album, Surface, in 1985, the same year that she appeared as a guest vocalist on the Fairport Convention album Gladys' Leap. She created and ran the World in 1 County festival from 2002 to 2007. In November 2009, she released the solo single "This Christmas", which was written by her husband, David Wilson.
Ragged Kingdom is a 2011 album by June Tabor and Oysterband. Tabor and Oysterband had collaborated previously on the 1990 album Freedom and Rain. The majority of the tracks are interpretations of traditional folk songs but also includes covers of Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart", Bob Dylan's "Seven Curses" PJ Harvey's "That Was My Veil" and the Dan Penn & Chips Moman soul standard "Dark End of the Street".
Ray Cooper, also known as Chopper, is a British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist living in Sweden.
Camus are a traditional folk band from Cambridge, England, named after a village in Co. Galway, Ireland. They perform as a fourpiece: Greg Smith on fiddle, Andrew Burn on melodeon, vocals and Northumbrian smallpipes, David Somerville on keyboards and Northumbrian smallpipes, and Brian Cleary on vocals, guitar and bouzouki. Their repertoire fuses influences from Northumbrian, Shetland and Irish music, as well as their own song and tune compositions drawing on Cleary and Burn’s backgrounds in Ireland and North East England respectively.
