Oysterband
Wedgewood Rooms Albert Road 147B, Portsmouth, England, United KingdomCurrently Oysterband consists of founder members John Jones (vocal, melodeon), Alan Prosser (guitars, vocal), and Ian Telfer (violin, keyboard, vocal) with Dil Davies (drums), Al Scott (bass guitar, mandolin, vocal), and Adrian Oxaal (cello, guitar, vocal). At first - around 1978 - purely a dance band ("The Oyster Ceilidh Band"), started experimenting with radical arrangements of traditional songs and with home recording, and even put out 4 albums in the early 80s. These sound harmless enough now, but at the time […]