I heard the band on Mark Radcliffe’s BBC Folk Show recently. I have some earlier albums but had forgotten about them and now I’ve rediscovered them all over again
They aren’t from Stornaway but they’ve been there twice…apparently, I think they are from Cambridge, maybe but I’m not really bothered from whence they hail
A song in comments
They’re from Oxford but my son’s pal’s dad is their biggest fan, and he lives in Cambridge.
They had a five-year break between splitting up a reforming. Is that a record?
I heard them on 6Music recently too and was mighty impressed. Think will have to investigate further.
Green on Red reformed for one gig 19 years after Dan Stuart stormed off the stage in Athens.
The reformed band played the London Astoria with the same setlist and the same lineup.
I was there. It was transcendental.
Stornaway band Oxford are much better. in fact, any Stornaway band are better. A pox on ’em. (Sorry, I should have just scrolled past, but they make just as ghastly a racket this time around as half a decade ago. Caught their reunion gig at Cambridge FF. Awful. Left the heaving crowd of celebrants to it.)
We’ll post something to listen to instead of pontificating
Go on then.
I love how spellcheck offers advice when you are seeking an opinion.
Or should it be spe’llcheck?
As you may have guessed ‘We’ll’ was intended as ‘Well’
Could have been a “royal” we’ll. One never knows.
In other news, StornOway doesn’t have 2 a’s in it, which is my bloody spellcheck’s fault, denoting, likely, it has sassenach origins.
But let’s have a tune that mentions the bonny borough, anyway:
I quite like Peat & Diesel
I quite like Pearl & Dean. I find it brief and vibrant.
I like Pearl & Teddy
Sing Little Birdie
I have heard Tenbury We’lls is nice this time of year.
Highly recommended by the Bishop of Bath and We’lls
Not a patch on Tunbridge We’lls tho.
Remember We’lls Fargo?
My wife will be delighted. She loves their first album and we’ve seen them live in Dublin a few times.