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Nicely Out Of Tune

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On Nicely Out of Tune they play a style of electric folk less beholden to traditional sensibilities and more in touch with then-current styles in art rock than the likes of Fairport Convention or Steeleye Span. The record itself comes in a printed brown paper inner sleeve with a small white band logo in the centre. At that time few local promoters would take a chance on booking us as our repertoire of Tyneside Delta Blues, Dylan influenced originals and Zappa covers was a little challenging to their regular punters who prefered a backdrop of Tamla Motown songs to fight and fornicate to.

Nicholas’ Hospital in Newcastle, in the days when alcoholics were prescribed 25 milligrammes of LSD per day. One of the primary successes of a folk cross over into the heavyweight world of pop / chart worthiness. For a while an artist friend of ours produced a monthly, hand drawn, one sheet comic, featuring the mythical exploits of our band. Drummond Amin, Tyneside rock'n'roll godfather and owner of the Shaftsbury electric 12 string guitar that Lindisfarne borrowed for the NOOT recording sessions.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Uncle Tony was Tony Stratton Smith, Lindisfarne's manager and owner of the Charisma label which was based at Number 7, Dean Street (I think). A couple of days later I was at my mam and dad’s house when I noticed a book of sheet music that belonged to my brother who plays piano. I don’t remember if Jacka and I volunteered to design the ‘Nicely’ sleeve or if it was just presumed that we would.

Tracks like the "Jackhammer Blues" or the "Knacker's Yard Blues" are not according to my taste and don't really fit the flow. A more masculine brand of English folk rock, complete with strong melodies and eerily reedy harmonies. It's got the lot, lively and ireverent with the likes of "we can swing together" to the melodic thoughtful "Alan in the river with flowers", and perhaps in "Winter Song" one of the best songs the late and much lamented Alan Hull ever wrote. Joe Robertson, Brethren manager and then Lindisfarne co-manager with Dave Wood, took Alan Hull/Brethren demos to Tony Stratton Smith which resulted in recording deal with Charisma. It charted more than a year after release, thanks to the huge success of their second album Fog on the Tyne, which topped the charts early in 1972.Our self-promoted gigs at venues like Jesmond Banqueting Hall and the New Orleans Jazz Club attracted a clientele who were as daft as us and often remarked on the whacky self-produced advertising material that had drawn them to our gigs. It's very very good, unusually you even get bonus tracks on the CD version that are worth having rather than put there to fill up the space. Songwriting is decent, usually containing ok verses followed by some catchy singalong choruses (complete with great harmonies). To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

The title of the piece was displayed in an ornate line drawing featuring cherubs and ladies playing harps and singing.Spectrum was design company owned by Joe Robertson, responsible for early Lindisfarne imagery/posters etc. What a joy to revisit this little beauty, if not one of the great albums of 1970, then certainly one with some of the great songs. Since I am a huge fan of Genesis, reading their history, I found out that they used to open for this band, so was obviously very curious as to what this band may sound like as they were being booked together. This is truly a great song, listen to the words and think how something written over 40 years ago is still so meaningfull today.

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