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I fear I am going to be the voice of dissent here. My copy arrived yesterday and I wanted to like it more than I did. There is much to enjoy about their approach. It is folk and it rocks. What more can you ask? But my feeling is they really need a singer. I just don't like the voice (Gavin?), or perhaps the vocal style on most of the tracks at all. I will persist with it and hopefully it will grow on me or maybe they will allow Blair or Katriona to take more of the lead vocals on future recordings.
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« Reply #142 on: August 24, 2011, 09:55:40 AM » |
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We both found the EP to be excellent and very enjoyable. Shades of one of the voices in Albion Country Band #1!!
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I fear I am going to be the voice of dissent here. My copy arrived yesterday and I wanted to like it more than I did. There is much to enjoy about their approach. It is folk and it rocks. What more can you ask? But my feeling is they really need a singer. I just don't like the voice (Gavin?), or perhaps the vocal style on most of the tracks at all. I will persist with it and hopefully it will grow on me or maybe they will allow Blair or Katriona to take more of the lead vocals on future recordings.
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« Reply #144 on: August 24, 2011, 12:14:07 PM » |
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« Reply #146 on: August 25, 2011, 06:33:11 AM » |
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The unkind might suggest that weak vocals on an Albion Band CD are not a new thing - eg those with Ashley all along......
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« Reply #147 on: August 25, 2011, 09:23:23 AM » |
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Ashley's vocals have grown on me, given the right song. They work perfectly well on something like Kitty Come Down The Lane or Pat Nevin Flew In On A Wing & A Prayer (one of my favourite Ashley songs). And his Dylan covers are usually pretty sound.
It is not so much weak vocals that bother me as mannered vocals (sadly usually derived from some perception of traditional folk singing).
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« Reply #149 on: September 08, 2011, 07:59:44 AM » |
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Some good pics there - wonder where they were taken - it's a Wards pub, so could be S Yorks/Notts - possibly Sheffield?
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They are all living in that area atm...until Blair moves to Siuth Wales soon! Nice commute!
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« Reply #151 on: September 18, 2011, 07:41:40 PM » |
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« Reply #152 on: September 18, 2011, 08:09:37 PM » |
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Some good pics there - wonder where they were taken - it's a Wards pub, so could be S Yorks/Notts - possibly Sheffield?
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« Reply #153 on: September 23, 2011, 05:34:28 PM » |
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Just up on the Facebook page: WE'RE LOOKING FOR A GUITARIST!!! We need a 6th member. Someone who plays Electric guitar. If you are/know someone between 21 and 40 who is a versatile Electric guitarist with a knowledge of Folk Rock and an interest in other genres, get in touch!!! Youtube clips, demo MP3s, myspace/soundcloud links, etc to nick@albionfolk.co.uk |
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Just up on the Facebook page: WE'RE LOOKING FOR A GUITARIST!!! We need a 6th member. Someone who plays Electric guitar. If you are/know someone between 21 and 40 who is a versatile Electric guitarist with a knowledge of Folk Rock and an interest in other genres, get in touch!!! Youtube clips, demo MP3s, myspace/soundcloud links, etc to nick@albionfolk.co.ukAgeism  |
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Just up on the Facebook page: WE'RE LOOKING FOR A GUITARIST!!! We need a 6th member. Someone who plays Electric guitar. If you are/know someone between 21 and 40 who is a versatile Electric guitarist with a knowledge of Folk Rock and an interest in other genres, get in touch!!! Youtube clips, demo MP3s, myspace/soundcloud links, etc to nick@albionfolk.co.ukAgeism I know, right? I think I'll sue. |
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« Reply #157 on: October 22, 2011, 10:54:11 AM » |
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The text on the Playhouse site doesn't say that it's a bunch of twentysomethings playing in the spirit of the Albion Bands of yesteryear. In which case 19.50 is quite a bold move. "New line up", sure, but there was one every year for decades anyway, so that's not very clear.
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« Reply #158 on: October 24, 2011, 03:58:33 PM » |
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Speaking southern hemispherically, I just hope someone YouTubes a few songs from the gig. I wonder if would be wise, or the opposite of wise, for perhaps Ashley to be there to intoduce the band, so the audience is aware of the baton-passing if they weren't before. Presumably he'd be there anyway? Though Ashley Hutchings introducing the Albion Band and then not playing with them would be a little surreal, I imagine. No bottom line here, sorry! |
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« Reply #159 on: October 24, 2011, 04:04:43 PM » |
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Short, scathing review of the EP in fRoots. I don't think he/she liked it very much! Oh well, each to their own, etc, etc
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