From their earliest days as a noisy, politicised ceilidh band in the late seventies, Oysterband have kept evolving and evolving.
Now they have launched the next instalment of their journey: a new 10-track album entitled ‘Read The Sky’.
Maybe it was partly forced on them by the absurd complexity of trying to record a six-piece band under COVID regulations that were no sooner adopted than changed. But there’s a definite sense of urgency to many of the songs on ‘Read The Sky’ that serves them very well.
Politically, they’re expressing themselves in ‘greener’ terms now, both in anger and in elegy.
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If anything, the band’s story-telling, with tales from Hong Kong to Huddersfield, has become more personal and more emotional.
Oysterband are itching to play the new songs along with all the classics. They will show the world that they’ve learned the life lesson of COVID - hit the road running, there’s not a moment to lose.
“We absolutely cannot wait to get out playing our songs live again," says Oysterband frontman John Jones, "As well as performing new tracks from our recent No.1 album ‘Read The Sky’ live for the very first time,’ we will be bringing out all the big guns plus a few cast-iron fan favourites.
"Everybody has missed live music so much these past couple of years - we plan on doing our level best to make sure these UK shows are something truly unforgettable.”
Catch the band live at The Stables in Milton Keynes on May 27. To book tickets click here
