Read the Sky Oysterband

• 1 Born Under the Same Sun 03:44
• 2 The Corner of the Room 03:46
• 3 Roll Away 03:52
• 4 Wonders Are Passing 04:25
• 5 Fly or Fall 03:33
• 6 My Son 03:37
• 7 Hungry for That Water 03:29
• 8 Star of the Sea 03:32
• 9 Streams of Innocence 04:00
• 10 The Time Is Now 04:21
• Total Runtime 38:19

Info for Read the Sky

After an 8-year gap ("hey, we were busy"), Oysterband's 12th collection of new material (14th if you count their well-known collaborations with grande dame of folk June Tabor) displays undiminished creative energy from the senior-statesmen folk-rockers, and story-telling that ranges from Yorkshire to Hong Kong.

In writing about the world they experience, Oysterband's politically-alert songs have become at once more implicit and autobiographical ("Born Under The Same Sun", "Streams Of Innocence") and more urgently green ("The Time Is Now" and the elegiac "Wonders Are Passing"). The band is fond of saying that whatever happens out there, they find they've already written a song about it - never more true than now.

As well as founder-members John Jones, Alan Prosser and Ian Telfer, plus producer Al Scott, Read The Sky features new drummer Sean Randle (formerly of Zubop, Happy End) and on cello and Telecaster Adrian Oxaal, who moonlights as lead guitarist for rock band James.

John Jones, lead vocals, melodeon, backing vocals (3)
Alan Posser, lead vocals (7), guitars, violin, organ, bass, drum programming, backing vocals
Ian Telfer, violin, backing vocals (3)
Al Scott, bass, mandolin, guitar, percussion (6), backing vocals
Adrian Oxaal, guitar, cello, backing vocals (3)
Sean Rundle, drums, percussion (2), backing vocals (3)
Pete Flood, percussion (4)

OYSTERBAND
makes modern, folk-based British music, acoustic at heart, sometimes intense, sometimes rocking. Since 1978 they’ve toured in 35 countries – festivals, concerts, bars, rallies, jails, bring ’em on!

Right through the 80s & early 90s, you’d have been hard pressed to find something more unhip to be associated with than … (ahem”…fo*k music. But Oysterband had little choice in the matter. Influenced by all manner of music, culture and style, they listened to anything and everything – but the heartbeat of the band was a deep-rooted love of the traditional music of Britain.

And not the invented tradition of twee choruses and dodgy ideologies that inspired a million fake-rustic cliches that turned off the very people it was alleged to represent. But a tradition that dealt in integrity, passion, human experience and human emotion – songs that made you want to dance, laugh, cry, jump for joy, kick a few heads in. Hey, that could be folk music, could be rock music .. but maybe it’s just good music. Whatever – it helped the Oysters become one of the most irresistible bands of the last decade. And the one before that too.

Currently Oysterband consists of founder members John Jones (vocals, melodeon), Alan Prosser (guitars, vocals), and Ian Telfer (violin, keyboard, vocals) with Dil Davies (drums), Al Scott (bass guitar, mandolin, vocals), and Adrian Oxaal (cellor, guitar, vocals).


"A British folk band that likes to rock out" Rolling Stone Magazine

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