Oysterband
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Oysterband

A Long Long Goodbye

Presented by: The Sub Rooms
0 STROUD: The Sub Rooms (info)
P Thursday 5th December, 2024
N Door time: 7:00pm
Start time: 8:00pm
. 14+ (under 18s must be accompanied by an adult)
C Music - Folk/blues/world

Event Information

“A single star is shining // Across the evening sky // Sending us a message // Then they're waving us goodbye // They are waving us a long, long goodbye // Thousands of light-years // Goodbye…”Oysterband - “Granite Years” (from ‘Deserters’, 1992)

From their earliest days as a noisy, politicised ceilidh band in the late Seventies, Oysterband have never stopped evolving or providing soundtrack to the changing times.

Initially meeting at Canterbury in Kent, at a time when pubs were alive with folk clubs and music sessions, the Oyster Ceilidh Band (as they were known then), were a band on a simple mission to get dancefloors bouncing. But with a chemistry between its members and music that made a profound connection with its audiences, greater things soon beckoned as the times became more complicated.

Emerging in the early 80s from their ceilidh band days they infused both the traditional and their own songs with a passion and energy that was electrifyingly fresh for the time. Polkas, politics and a heaving dance floor somehow seemed perfectly right for Thatcher’s Britain. Signing to new roots label Cooking Vinyl, headlining English Roots Against Apartheid, playing Glastonbury and the Fleadh several times each, touring with The Pogues in Europe and Billy Bragg in North America, hosting the Big Session Festival. All gained them a large and loyal following both at home and internationally.

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Total price: £30.80
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Venue information

STROUD: The Sub Rooms
0 George Street
Stroud
GL5 1AE
> thesubrooms.co.uk/
! 01453796880

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