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1

Jack's Alive [as Oyster Ceilidh Band]

--/80

 

 

2

English Rock 'n' Roll - The Early Years 1800-1850

03/82

 

 

3

Lie Back And Think Of England

06/83

 

 

4

20 Golden Tie-Slackeners

12/84

 

 

5

Liberty Hall

05/85

 

 

6

Step Outside

09/86

7

Wide Blue Yonder

09/87

8

Ride

04/89

9

Litle Rock To Leipzig [part live]

03/90

10

Freedom And Rain [with June Tabor]

08/90

11

Deserters

04/92

12

Holy Bandits

08/93

13

Trawler [rerecorded versions of old songs]

09/94

14

The Shouting End Of Life

09/95

15

Alive & Shouting [live, limited availability]

--/96

 

 

16

Deep Dark Ocean

08/97

17

Alive And Acoustic [live, limited availability]

06/98

 

 

18

Here I Stand

05/99

19

Rise Above

09/02

20

The Big Session Volume 1

08/04

21

Northern Light

11/06

 

 

22

Meet You There

04/07

23

The Oxford Girl And Other Stories

11/08

24

Ragged Kingdom

09/11

 


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1) JACK'S ALIVE

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The Blean Hoodening Song/The City Branle
Hunting The Hare/The Clog
Schottische D'Auvergne/Belle Rosine
Oyster River Hornpipe/Herne Bay Dance/
The Curlyheaded Ploughboy
Marche Du Fin Du Bal/The Committee Jig
The Lakes Of Cool Flynn

The Rambling Sailor
Brandy
The Shaalds Of Foula
The Lawyer
News Of The Victory/The One Horned Sheep
Limbo
Boscastle Breakdown


John Jones
Cathy Lesurf
Alan Prosser

Chris Taylor


Ian Telfer
Will Ward

Chris Wood

Producer:

Vocals, Melodeon, Piano
Vocals, Dance Calls
Guitar, Fiddle, Bowed Psaltery,
Bones, Vocals
Bouzouki, Mandola, Guitar,
Jew's Harp, One-Row Melodeon,
Harmonica
Fiddle, Viola, English Concertina
Bassoon, Recorder, Crumhorn, Synthesiser
Bass, Percussion, Vocals

Oyster Ceilidh Band

2) ENGLISH ROCK 'n' ROLL - THE EARLY YEARS 1800-1850

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The Prentice Boy
Rufford Park/Bobbing Joe
Sons Of Freedom
A Longport Hymn
Annan Water

Abroad As I Was Walking
Bold Wolfe
Old Molly Oxford
Slippin' And Slidin'
The Dockyard Gate
Holligrave/Wayfaring Stranger


John Jones
Ian Kearey

Cathy Lesurf
Alan Prosser
Chris Taylor

Ian Telfer

Producer:

Vocals, Melodeon
Bass, Guitar, Epinette, Autoharp, Backing Vocals
Vocals (Tracks 3,7,11.2)
Guitar, Synthesiser, Bones
Bouzouki, Harmonica, Bodhran, Guitar
Violin, Viola, Alto & Tenor Saxophone

Oyster Band, Mike Warren

3) LIE BACK AND THINK OF ENGLAND

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Waiting On Glory
Gallop Hey
The Furze Field
My Young Man
La Valse Du Cochon Noir/Port Arthur Stomp
The Green Bed

Fanny Blair
Stonecutter Boy
The Sheepstealer
William Hall
Think Of England
Michael Turner's Waltz


Claire Hewlett
John Jones
Ian Kearey
Alan Prosser
Chris Taylor

Ian Telfer


Producer:

Drums (Track 11)
Vocals, Melodeon
Bass, Guitar, Vocals
Guitar, Synthesiser, Bass, Vocals
Bouzouki, Harmonica, Guitar, Melodeon
Fiddle, Viola, Concertina, Organ,
Alto & Tenor Saxophone

The Oyster Band

4) 20 GOLDEN TIE-SLACKENERS

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12.

Kentish Cricketers/Galopede
The Belfast Almanack/Folkestone For The Day
Three Jolly Sheepskins/Speed The Plough
Mrs Foster's/The First Of May
Dumbarton Castle/'Twas Within A Mile
Not The Fiery Clockface

P's/J's
Jack's Alive/The Clare Jig
Go And Enlist
Spaghetti Junction/Dixie's/Stack Ryan's
The Redowa Polka
La Morisque


John Jones
Ian Kearey
Alan Prosser
Chris Taylor

Ian Telfer

Producer:

Melodeon
Bass, Guitar, Autoharp
Guitar, Guitar Synthesiser, Fiddle
Bouzouki, Harmonica, Guitar,
One-Row Melodeon
Fiddle, Alto & Tenor Saxophone

The Oyster Band

5) LIBERTY HALL

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Arise Arise
Bonnie Susie Cleland
The Breaking Of Our Lord's Birthday
Liberty Hall
Euston Station

Cropper Lads
Steal For Joy
Barnstead Downs (Geordie)
St Peter's Tea Gardens
Six Grey Men
Drink Again (Drowning Ballad No 142)


Martin Brinsford
Ron Elliott
Rod Franks
John Jones
Ian Kearey
Alan Prosser
Chris Taylor

Ian Telfer

Producer:

Percussion (Track 11)
Northumbrian Pipes (Track 5)
Trumpet (Track 1)
Vocals, Melodeon
Bass, Banjimer
Guitar, Guitar Synthesiser, Vocals
Harmonica (Tracks 4,10),
Jew's Harp (Track 10)
Violin, Saxophone, Keyboards

Oyster Band

6) STEP OUTSIDE

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9.

Hal-An-Tow
Flatlands
Another Quiet Night In England
Molly Bond

Bully In The Alley
The Day That The Ship Goes Down
Gaol Song
The Old Dance
Bold Riley


Clive Gregson
John Jones
Ian Kearey
Russell Lax
Alan Prosser
Ian Telfer

Producer:

Keyboards
Vocals, Melodeon
Vocals, Bass, Guitar
Drums
Vocals, Guitar
Fiddle, Tenor Saxophone, Keyboards

Clive Gregson

7) WIDE BLUE YONDER

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The Generals Are Born Again
Pigsty Billy
The Oxford Girl
Following In Father's Footsteps
The Lost And Found

Coal Creek Mine
Rose Of England
A Careless Life
The Early Days Of A Better Nation
The Lakes Of Cool Flynn
Between The Wars

LP


CD

Christine Collister
Clive Gregson
John Jones
Ian Kearey
Russell Lax
Alan Prosser
Ian Telfer

Kathryn Tickell

Producer:

Vocals (Track 3)
Keyboards
Vocals, Melodeon
Bass, Guitar, Banjo, Vocals
Drums, Percussion
Guitar, Vocals
Fiddle, Tenor Saxophone,
Concertina, Keyboards
Northumbrian Pipes (Track 5)

Clive Gregson

8) RIDE

 
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UK Issue
Too Late Now
Polish Plain
Heaven To Calcutta
Tincans
This Year, Next Year

New York Girls
Gamblers (We Do Not Do That Anymore)
Take Me Down
Cheekbone City
Love Vigilantes

US Issue
New York Girls
Gamblers (We Do Not Do That Anymore)
Take Me Down
Cheekbone City
Love Vigilantes

Too Late Now
Polish Plain
Heaven To Calcutta
Tincans
This Year Next Year


Chopper
John Jones
Russell Lax
Alan Prosser
Ian Telfer

Producer:

Bass, Cello, Vocals
Vocals, Melodeon
Drums
Guitar, Bones, Vocals
Fiddle, Alto Saxophone, Organ

Dave Young

9) LITTLE ROCK TO LEIPZIG

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10.

Jail Song Two
The Oxford Girl
Gonna Do What I Have To Do
Too Late Now
Galopede

Red Barn Stomp
I Fought The Law
Coal Not Dole
New York Girls
Johnny Mickey Barry's/Salmon Tails Down The Water


Chopper
John Jones
Russell Lax
Alan Prosser
Ian Telfer

Producer:

Bass, Cello, Vocals
Vocals, Melodeon, Caller (Track 10)
Drums
Guitar, Vocals
Fiddle

Oysterband, Dave Young (Tracks 4,5)

 

Tracks 6-9: recorded live at The Empire, Hackney, London, England on 31 December 1989
Track 10: recorded live at Westgate Hall, Canterbury, Kent, England on 16 December 1989

10) FREEDOM AND RAIN

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Mississippi Summer
Lullaby Of London
Night Comes In
Valentine's Day Is Over
All Tomorrow's Parties

Dives And Lazarus
Dark Eyed Sailor
Pain Or Paradise
Susie Clelland
Finisterre


Chopper
John Hart
John Jones
Russell Lax
Alan Prosser
Gavin Sharp
June Tabor
Ian Telfer
Neil Yates

Producer:

Bass, Cello
Bass Trombone
Vocals, Melodeon, Accordion
Drums, Percussion
Guitar, Mandolin, Psaltery, Vocals
Tenor Saxophone
Vocals
Fiddle, Viola, Concertina, Organ
Trumpet

Oysterband

11) DESERTERS

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All That Way For This
The Deserter
Angels Of The River
We Could Leave Right Now
Elena's Shoes

Granite Years
Diamond For A Dime
Never Left
Ship Sets Sail
Fiddle Or A Gun
Bells Of Rhymney


Chopper
John Jones
Tomás Lynch

Rory McLeod
Lee Partis
Alan Prosser
Ian Telfer

Producer:

Bass, Cello, Tiple, Vocals
Vocals, Melodeon
Whistle (Track 6),
Uillean Pipes (Track 8)
Harmonica (Track 3)
Drums, Bodhran, Percussion
Guitar, Banjo, Vocals
Fiddle, Concertina

John Ravenhall

12) HOLY BANDITS

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When I'm Up I Can't Get Down
The Road To Santiago
I Look For You
Gone West
We Shall Come Home
Cry, Cry
Here's To You
Moving On
Rambling Irishman
A Fire Is Burning
Blood Wedding

UK Issue


US Issue

Sarah Allen
Chopper
John Jones
Lee Partis

Alan Prosser
Jackie Sheridan
Ian Telfer

Producer:

Whistle (Track 2)
Bass, Cello, Tiple, Vocals
Vocals, Melodeon
Drums, Bodhran, Vocals,
Banging & Shouting
Guitar, Mandolin, Banjo, Viola, Vocals
Vocals (Track 9)
Fiddle, Viola

Al Scott

13) TRAWLER

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Hal-An-Tow
Another Quiet Night In England (1994)
We Could Leave Right Now
Blood Wedding
Oxford Girl
Granite Years
Rambling Irishman
Love Vigilantes
Polish Plain
20th Of April
The Lost And Found
One Green Hill
Coal Not Dole
Bells Of Rhymney
Another Quiet Night In England
Oxford Girl
Love Vigilantes
Hal-An-Tow
We Could Leave Right Now


Chopper
John Jones
Lee Partis
Alan Prosser
Ian Telfer

Producer:

Bass, Cello, Vocals
Vocals, Accordion
Drums, Vocals
Guitar, Mandolin, Banjo, Vocals
Fiddle

Al Scott

 

Tracks 15-19: Original version, included on intial copies only

14) THE SHOUTING END OF LIFE

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We'll Be There
Blood-Red Roses
Jam Tomorrow
By Northern Light
The Shouting End Of Life
Long Dark Street
Our Lady Of The Bottles
Everywhere I Go
Put Out The Lights
Voices
Don't Slit Your Wrists For Me
The World Turned Upside Down


Sarah Allen
Chris Batchelor
Chopper
Linda Duggan
John Jones

Expensive Mustapha
Lee Partis

Alan Prosser

Ian Telfer
Kathryn Tickell

Producer:

Whistle
Trumpet
Bass, Cello, Vocals
Vocals (Track 11)
Vocals, Accordion, Melodeon, Piano
Trumpet
Drums, Percussion, Hammer, Vocals
Guitar, Banjo, Mandolin, Violin, Vocals
Violin, Viola, Concertina
Northumbrian Pipes

Pat Collier (Tracks 1-11),
Alaric Neville (Track 12)

15) ALIVE & SHOUTING

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Introduction
The Shouting End Of Life
We'll Be There
The World Turned Upside Down
When I'm Up I Can't Get Down
Everywhere I Go
One Green Hill
20th Of April
By Northern Light
We Shall Come Home
Put Out The Lights
Don't Slit Your Wrists For Me
Blood Wedding
Another Quiet Night In England
We Could Leave Right Now


Chopper
John Jones
Lee Partis
Alan Prosser
Ian Telfer

Producer:

Bass, Cello, Vocals
Vocals, Melodeon
Drums, Vocals
Guitar, Vocals
Violin, Tenor Aeola, Mandolin

Poul Erik Sørenson (Tracks 2-11),
Liv Ungermark (Tracks 12-15)

 

Only available during 1996 from The F-Word and at live gigs.
Tracks 1-11: recorded live by the Danish Broadcasting Corporation at Huset, Aahus, Denmark on 1 February 1996
Tracks 12-15: recorded live by the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation at Gino, Stockholm, Sweden on 15 November 1995

16) DEEP DARK OCEAN

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Sail On By
Little Brother
Only When You Call
Native Son
Not Like Jordan
North Star
Milford Haven
The Story
Be My Luck
No Reason To Cry
Drunkard's Waltz
Native Son [hidden bonus track, in Welsh]


Chopper

John Jones
Lee Partis
Alan Prosser
Alan Scott

Ian Telfer

Producer:

Bass, Cello, Mandolin, Harmonica, Guitar, Vocals
Vocals, Melodeon
Drums, Vocals
Guitar, Violin, Octave Mandola, Vocals
Guitar, Bass, Octave Mandola,
Mandolin, Percussion
Violin, Concertina, Korkenzieher

Oysterband, Alan Scott

17) ALIVE AND ACOUSTIC

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Sail On By
Voices
Be My Luck
The Oxford Girl
Native Son
This Year, Next Year
Reels: McMahon's/The Sailor's Bonnet
I Look For You
Blood Red Roses
The Story
Moving On
Milford Haven
Molly Bond
A Fire Is Burning
Polkas: Scartaglen/Johnny Leary's/
The Humours Of Ballydesmond
All That Way For This
I Once Loved A Lass
The Old Triangle


Chopper
John Jones
Lee Partis
Alan Prosser
Ian Telfer

Producer:

Cello, Guitar, Harmonica, Vocals
Vocals, Melodeon
Drums, Percussion, Vocals
Guitar, Fiddle, Vocals
Fiddle, Concertina, Vocals

Alaric Neville

 

Only available from The F-Word and at live gigs

18) HERE I STAND

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On The Edge
This Is The Voice
In Your Eyes
Street Of Dreams
Ways Of Holding On
A Time Of Her Own
After Rain
I Know It's Mine
Someone You Might Have Been
Kantele
She's Moved On
And As For You
Cello Drop
Jump Through The Fire
This Town
A Last Glass


Chopper


Chumbawamba

Rowan Godel
Great Big Sea


Steáfán Hannigan
John Jones
Yulia Kuszta
Gino Lupari
Wild Slim Mustapha

Alaric Neville

Lee Partis

Alan Prosser

Ian Telfer


Producer:

Bass, Cello, Kantele, Vocals, Harmonica, Organ, Guitar, Percussion, Glass Harmonica
Vocals, Trumpet & Shouting
(Track 2)
Vocals (Track 4)
Vocals (Tracks 7,15),
Bodhran (Track 13),
Whistle (Track 15)
Whistle (Track 15)
Vocals, Melodeon
Vocals (Track 5)
Bodhran (Track 3)
Bouzouki (Track 3),
Boogaliser (Track 15)
Guitar, Bouzouki, Percussion, Melodeon, Vocals
Drums, Vocals, Percussion,
Subliminal Piano
Guitar, Banjo, Vocals, Mandolin, Fiddle, Percussion
Fiddle, Concertina, Rainstick, Glass Harmonica

Alaric Neville, Oysterband

19) RISE ABOVE

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The Soul's Electric
Uncommercial Song
If You Can't Be Good
Everybody's Leaving Home
My Mouth
Shouting About Jerusalem
Blackwaterside
Rise Above
Wayfaring
Bright Morning Star


Chopper
Nuala Friedman
Rowan Godel
John Jones
Benji Kirkpatrick
James O'Grady
Lee
Alan Prosser

Matt Savage
Ian Telfer

Producer:

Bass, Cello, Kantele, Vocals
Accordion
Vocals
Vocals, Melodeon
Bouzouki, Guitar
Uillean Pipes, Whistle
Drums, Vocals
Guitar, Guitar Synthesiser,
Bouzouki, Mandolin, Vocals
Keyboards
Fiddle, Concertina

Alan Scott

20) THE BIG SESSION VOLUME 1

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John Barleycorn
Whitehaven
Lowlands
Country Life
Fuse
Ten Thousand Miles/Hungarian March
The New Jerusalem
When That Helicopter Comes
The House Carpenter
The Cuckoo's Nest
We Shall Come Home
Love Will Tear Us Apart
Factory Girl
Country Life (I Like To Rise)
The Cornish Farewell Shanty


Phil Beer
Eliza Carthy
Chopper
Ben Ivitsky
John Jones

Rose Kemp
Steve Knightley

Jim Moray

James O'Grady

Lee Partis
Alan Prosser
Brett Sparks
Rennie Sparks
June Tabor
Ian Telfer

Producer:

Mandolin, Violin, Vocals (Tracks 7,15)
Violin, Vocals (Tracks 5-7,14,15)
Bass, Cello, Vocals (Tracks 7,15)
Viola, Vocals (Tracks 7,15)
Vocals (Tracks 1,2,7,11-13,15), Melodeon
Backing Vocals (Tracks 5,6,15)
Vocals (Tracks 1,4,7,15), Mandocello, Quattro
Vocals (Tracks 7,10,15), Piano, Guitar
Uillean Pipes, Whistles, Violin,
Vocals (Tracks 7,15)
Drums, Vocals (Tracks 7,15)
Guitar, Kantele, Vocals (Tracks 7,15)
Vocals (Tracks 2,7-9,15), Guitar
Vocals (Tracks 7,9,15), Banjo
Vocals (Tracks 1,3,7,12,13,15)
Violon, Viola, Vocals (Tracks 7,15)

Rob Keyloch

 

Recorded live with a small audience at Bush Hall, London, England on 18-20 May 2004

21) NORTHERN LIGHT

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Not Like Jordan
The Oxford Girl
Coal Not Dole
Bells Of Rhymney
North Star
The Story
Native Son
Love Vigilantes
Sail On By
Molly Bond
Voices
We Could Leave Right Now
Everywhere I Go




Producer:



 

Recorded Live at Skraen, Aalborg, Denmark on 5/6 September 1998

22) MEET YOU THERE

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Over The Water
Here Comes The Flood
Where The World Divides
Walking Down The Road With You
Bury Me Standing
Everything Must Go
Control
The Boy's Still Running
Someone Somewhere
Just One Life
Dancing As Fast As I Can


Genevieve Applebee
Chopper



Hullabaloo Community Quire
John Jones
The Marine Parade Marching Band
Kirsty Martin
Lee Partis

Alan Prosser

Al Scott


Ian Telfer

Producer:

Vocals (Track 8)
Cello, Mandolin, Bass, Tiple,
Mbira, Bass Harmonica,
Harmonica, Harmonium, Guitar,
Keyboards, Vocals
Vocals (Track 11)

Vocals, Accordion
Snare Drums (Track 11)

Vocals (Track 11)
Drums, Found Percussion,
Vocals
Guitar, Banjo, Bass, Accordion,
Violin, Organ, Vocals
Cello (Track 11), Guitar, Piano,
Mandolin, Tambourine (Track 5),
Pedal Steel Guitar (Track 11)
Violin

23) THE OXFORD GIRL AND OTHER STORIES

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The Early Days Of A Better Nation
When I'm Up I Can't Get Down
By Northern Light
Blood-Red Roses
The Soul's Electric
The Oxford Girl
Little Brother
What Wondrous Love Is This?
Angels Of The River
After Rain
Shouting About Jerusalem
The Lakes Of Cool Flynn
The False Knight On The Road
Put Out The Lights


Chopper


Dil Davies
John Jones
Lee Partis
Alan Prosser

Al Scott
Ian Telfer

Producer:

Cello, Electric Double Bass,
Keyboards, Harmonica, Mbira,
Mandolin, Bouzouki, Vocals
Drums, Percussion
Vocals
Percussion, Vocals
Guitar, Banjo, Bass, Accordion, Violin,
Kantele, Vocals
Guitar, Bass, Accordion, Bouzouki
Violin, Concertina

Al Scott

24) RAGGED KINGDOM

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12.

Bonny Bunch Of Roses
That Was My Veil
Son David
Love Will Tear Us Apart
(When I Was No But) Sweet Sixteen
Judas (Was A Red-Headed Man)
If My Love Loves Me
The Hills Of Shiloh
Fountains Flowing
The Leaves Of Life
Seven Curses
The Dark End Of The Street


Chopper
Dil Davies
Alan Prosser
John Jones
June Tabor
Ian Telfer

Producer:

Bass, Cello, Vocals
Drums, Vocals
Guitar, Vocals
Vocals, Melodeon
Vocals
Fiddle, Concertina, Vocals