Released almost one year to the day since the 2021 studio album Lammas Fair, ‘Live After Lammas’ is a one night snapshot of Henry Parker performing with his electric trio in the student quarter of Leeds at the Hyde Park Book Club, with Rob McNicholas on electric bass and Louis Berthoud on drums. The title of the live album, which marks as a nod to the much loved heavy-metal live albums of his teenage years (Iron Maiden, Motorhead) seems ever more appropriate as the set progresses, with performances of Drive East, and the The Brisk Lad transcending notions of what a folk artist should sound like in 2022 with wailing guitar leads and cascading drums.
The varied set takes in cuts from Parker’s two studio albums, the aforementioned Lammas Fair, as well as 2019’s Silent Spring, albums both long out of print on vinyl and much celebrated across the music press and the echelons of the psych and folk music forums that lurk in the overlooked, dusty corners of the web.
2022 saw Henry Parker play shows across the country, London, The Isle of Wight, Margate and North Shields, but this performance amongst his Yorkshire peers in Leeds stands out as the best of the lot. Expertly recorded on the night by Christopher Jones, impeccably mixed by producer Kurt Wood and deftly mastered by the much respected Nick Jonah Davis, ‘Live After Lammas’ is a record to be treated with the same respect as it’s studio produced counterpart and namesake.
credits
releases November 4, 2022
Henry Parker – Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar
Robert McNicholas – Electric Bass
Louis Berthoud – Drums
Recorded by Christopher Jones at Hyde Park Book Club 20/2/22
Mixed by Kurt Wood at Corner House Recording Studio, Keighley
Mastered by Nick Jonah Davis
A teaser video clip from the evening of the live album recording. Two songs available for previewing on Bandcamp: https://henryparker.bandcamp.com/
How very ye olde folke rocke! Excellent!!!
Indeed so, Retro! Here they are in a show I attended on a folk-rock field trip to Yorkshire two weeks ago. This one is in the live album too (in multi-track recorded fidelity, of course).
Ordered yesterday. It`s limited to just 200 copies.
I quite like Mr Parker
Good Grief, Colin – that’s quite the best thing I’ve heard in a month of Sundays…
EXCELLENT! 🙂
And a version, I spy, of Willie O’Winsbury too. Aces!!
No more than 198 copies left then, by my reckoning from this thread.
😉
😀 Henry actually sold around a third of the 200 on the day sales opened (one of them to me)
and one to me.
…and one to me…
I’ve never actually seen the Chuckle Brothers but I’ve been told this is their most popular routine. I can see why!
@colin-h Blimey, it’s good isn’t it? My copy showed up this morning, and it’s fab.
Your postal service is better than mine!
Mine arrived today…I’ve only had the opportunity to listen to it once; but I am seriously impressed. Must be a contender for top 5 in this years poll…
I can only agree. I’m impressed that it’s vinyl length – c. 44 mins. No filler. If only he’d called it ‘Live at Leeds’, though. 😀
Full video of ‘Lammas Fair’ now out!
Hey, @Colin-H , may I “lift” your YouTube vid for Brisk Lad for a review I have done. Will credit you, clearly…..
By all means, Retro!
Got my copy on Friday last week. It is, indeed, excellent. Thanks for the review @Colin-H – I expect those 200 copies are going to sell out quickly
I suspect so too! Though it’s not a review – it’s a Noticeboard post, using the PR blurb from Henry’s Bandcamp. I have a feeling Retro may be reviewing it in dues course.
https://atthebarrier.com/2022/11/07/henry-parker-live-after-lammas-album-review/
Sensational! Accurate!
And Henry himself thought it ‘sweet’ on that Twitter 😉
Yet it was not unsavoury. A conundrum.