> Folk Music > Records > Phil Beer: Mandoline
Phil Beer: Mandoline
Mandoline Greenwich Village GVR 206 (LP, UK, 1979) |
Produced by Phil Beer;
Recorded by Alan Green at Mid Wales Sound Studios;
Mastered by Tony Bridge at Pye Studios, London;
Sleeve design by Glynis Owens
Musicians
Phil Beer: mandolin, mandocello, guitar;
Paul Downes: vocals, mandocello, mandolin, guitar [5, 9, 12-13]
Tracks
Side 1
- Jigs: Stanley’s Favourite / The Brighton Shuffle
- Dan Tucker / Soldier’s Joy
- Two Reels
- Green Rag
- Buddy Can You Spare a Dime?
- Hornpipes: Joe’s Hornpipe / Poppy Leaf
- Good King Arthur’s Days (Roud 130; G/D 3:704)
Side 2
- Morning Sky
- Slip Jigs
- Three Pretty Maids (Roud 1456)
- Jigs
- Up to the Rigs (Roud 868; G/D 2:299)
- Jigs
- Banks of the Bann (Roud 889; Laws O2; Henry H86)
All tracks trad. except
Track 1ab, 4, 6a Phil Beer;
Track 8 Dan Fogelberg
> Folk Music > Records > Show of Hands: Live at the Royal Albert Hall
Show of Hands: Live at the Royal Albert Hall
Live at the Royal Albert Hall Hands On Music HMCD01 (CD, UK, 1996) |
Produced by Simon Emmerson and Mass;
Recorded at the Presshouse Studios, Colyton, Devon, January 2006;
Pre-production at Riverside Studios, Exeter, autumn 2005;
Recording engineers: Mick Dolan, Mass;
Mixed by Mass with Simon Emmerson and Show of Hands
Musicians
Steve Knightley: vocals [1-5, 7-16],
guitar [2, 4-9, 12-13, 15],
cello-mandolin [1, 10-11, 14],
cuatro [3],
concertina [16];
Phil Beer: vocals [1, 5, 8-9, 11, 13-16],
fiddle [1, 6, 8, 10, 15],
guitar [2, 5, 13],
cello-mandolin [3-4, 12, 16],
cuatro [7, 9, 14],
mandolin [11]
with
Sally Barker: vocals [1, 12];
Vladimir Vega: pan pipes [1, 11, 14],
vocals [14];
Matt Clifford: keyboards [1, 7, 14],
vocals [1, 14];
Sarah Allen: accordion [10, 15];
Biddy Blythe: flute [15],
whistle [10, 15];
Nick Scott: pipes [10, 15]
Tracks
- Columbus (Didn’t Find America) (5.15)
- Day Has Come (3.46)
- The Preacher (4.28)
- Cutthroats, Crooks and Con-Men (3.27)
- The Blue Cockade (Roud 191; TYG 2) (5.48)
- The Soldiers Joy (1.35)
- Exile (5.13)
- The Man in Green (3.11)
- The Dove (4.10)
- The Well (3.54)
- The Hunter (4.55)
- Captains (4.15)
- The Blind Fiddler (Roud 7833) (3.57)
- Santiago (7.16)
- Galway Farmer (6.44)
- Time After Time (4.05)
All tracks written by Steve Knightley except
Tracks 5-6, 13 trad. arr. Steve Knightley, Phil Beer;
Track 9 Jacques Brel;
Track 16 Rob Hyman, Cyndi Lauper
> Folk Music > Records > Show of Hands: Dark Fields
Show of Hands: Dark Fields
Dark Fields Hands On Music HMCD03 (CD, UK, 1997) |
Produced by Show of Hands and Gerrard O’Farrell;
Wicker Man illustration by David Juniper;
Artwork by Stylorouge
Musicians
Steve Knightley: vocals, guitar, cuatro, mandocello, concertina,
acoustic bass, mandolin;
Phil Beer: vocals, uitars, mandolin, fiddle, cuatro, viola, mandocello
with
Matt Clifford: keyboards [1, 3, 5, 8];
Chris While: vocals [5];
Simon Care: melodeon [4];
Joe Partridge: percussion [8];
Lucy Watkins,
Richard Hammond,
Paul Banham: vocals [3, 8];
Kate Rusby: vocals [12];
Chris Wood: fiddle [12];
Andy Cutting: melodeon [12]
Tracks
- Cousin Jack (5.08)
- Longdog (2.43)
- The Shout (4.00)
- Wessex Medley: Carrick Roads / Plum Pudding / The Rocky Roaf to Chudleigh (3.39)
- Dark Fields (3.49)
- The Train (3.28)
- Flora (Roud 957; Laws P29; Henry H578) (4.21)
- Crazy Boy (5.37)
- The Warlike Lads of Russia (Roud V17408) (2.20)
- Farewell Angelina (5.01)
- The Bristol Slaver (4.04)
- High Germany / Molly Oxford (6.26)
All tracks written by Steve Knightley except
Tracks 4ac Phil Beer;
Tracks 4b, 7, 9 trad.;
Track 10 Bob Dylan;
Track 12a trad. arr. Steve Knightley;
Track 12b trad. arr. Chris Wood, Andy Cutting
> Folk Music > Records > Show of Hands: Witness
Show of Hands: Witness
Witness Hands On Music HMCD23 (CD, UK, 2006) |
Produced by Simon Emmerson and Mass;
Recorded at the Presshouse Studios, Colyton, Devon, January 2006;
Pre-production at Riverside Studios, Exeter, autumn 2005;
Recording engineers: Mick Dolan, Mass;
Mixed by Mass with Simon Emmerson and Show of Hands
Musicians
Steve Knightley: vocals [1-12],
acoustic guitar [1-2, 5-6, 9-11],
acoustic bass [9],
cuatro [1-2, 4, 10-11],
mandocello [2-3, 5-6, 12];
Phil Beer: lead vocals [4, 7],
vocals [1-2, 6],
fiddle [1-4, 6-7, 10-11],
viola [1-2],
mandolin [1, 4, 10-11],
slide guitar [2, 9],
acoustic guitar [3],
melodeon [6],
cuatro [9],
dobro [11];
Seth Lakeman: vocals [1],
tenor guitar [1, 4];
Paul Downes: guitar [8];
Miranda Sykes: vocals [1, 6-8],
double bass [1, 3-7, 10-12],
cello [6, 12];
Matt Clifford: piano [3, 5, 8, 12],
keyboards [9, 11],
backing vocals [4];
Paul Wilson: melodeon [3-4, 10],
backing vocals [4];
Jackie Oates, Lizzie Wescott: fiddle [4];
Phil: ebow [5],
acoustic guitar [4],
backing vocals [4];
Mass: bass [2],
shaker [5],
keyboards [12],
percussion programming [1-4, 6, 10-11],
drum programming [1-2, 4, 6, 10-12],
backing vocals [4];
Johnny Kalsi: tablas [2],
mazhar [2],
shaker [5];
Fisherman’s Friends: Haul Away choir [2];
Lyme Bay, the sea [3]
Tracks
- Witness (3.31)
- Roots (4.48)
- The Dive (4.41)
- The Falmouth Packet / Haul Away Joe (5.36)
- Undertow (5.18)
- If I Need Someone (3.33)
- Innocent’s Song / Gwithian (4.38)
- Union Street (Last Post) (4.14)
- The Bet (4.21)
- Ink Devil (5.01)
- Scratch (3.40)
- All I’d Ever Lost (5.47)
All tracks Steve Knightley except
Track 4a, 7b Phil Beer;
Track 4b trad. arr. Steve Knightley, Phil Beer;
Track 6 George Harrison;
Tracks 7a poem by Charles Causley, music Johnny Coppin;
Track 8 Steve Knightley, Matt Clifford
> Folk Music > Records > Show of Hands: Arrogance Ignorance and Greed
Show of Hands: Arrogance Ignorance and Greed
Arrogance Ignorance and Greed Hands On Music HMCD29 (CD, UK, 2009) |
Produced by Stu Hanna;
Additional engineering and production by Mark Tucker;
Recorded at Riverside Studios, Exeter
Musicians
Steve Knightley: vocals [1-12],
guitar [2, 4, 6, 8],
tenor guitar [2-3, 5, 7-10],
mandocello [1, 3, 11-12],
cuatro [5, 9],
harmonica [8];
Phil Beer: vocals [1, 3-4, 8-11],
fiddle [2, 5, 7-8, 11],
strings [3, 6, 11-12],
mandolin [4, 11],
mandocello [6],
slide guitar [7],
guitar [9-10],
cuatro [12];
Miranda Sykes: vocals [1-4, 6, 8-12],
double bass [1-6, 8-12];
Andy Tween: cajon [2, 11],
percussion [2, 11],
drums [6, 8];
Stu Hanna: guitar [2, 8];
Jim Causley: vocals [4];
David Delarre: vocals [4],
guitar [4];
James Delarre: vocals [4],
fiddle [4];
Debbie Hanna: vocals [6, 12];
Matt Clifford: piano [6, 12],
Hammond B3 [8],
keyboards [8];
Jackie Oates: vocals [7,11]
Tracks
- Lowlands (Roud 681; Henry H469) (2.20)
- Evolution (3.23)
- The Man I Was (3.33)
- The Napoli (3.10)
- Señor (Tales of Yankee Power) (4.12)
- IED: Science or Nature (4.58)
- The Vale (4.46)
- Arrogance Ignorance and Greed (3.39)
- Secret World (5.05)
- The Worried Well (2.12)
- The Keys of Canterbury (Roud 573) (3.41)
- Drift (4.34)
All tracks Steve Knightley except
Track 1 trad. arr. Steve Knightley, Phil Beer;
Track 5 Bob Dylan;
Track 9 Peter Gabriel;
Track 11 trad. / Steve Knightley
> Folk Music > Records > Show of Hands: Centenary
Show of Hands: Centenary
Centenary UMTV 3784840 (2 CD, UK, 2014) |
Produced and arranged by Mark Tucker and Steve Knightley;
Recorded and mixed by Mark Tucker at the Green Room, Devon;
Poetry recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London
Engineered by Jonathan Allen, assisted by Matt Jones;
Design by Stylorouge
Musicians
Show of Hands (Steve Knightley, Phil Beer, Miranda Sykes)
and guests:
Jackie Oates,
Jim Causley,
Paul Downes,
Ed Rennie,
Geoffrey Lakeman,
Rex Preston,
Chris Hoban,
Mark Tucker,
Andy Cutting,
Phillip Henry;
The Urban Soul Orchestra [2:11]
Tracks
CD 1, read by Jim Carter & Imelda Staunton
- Anthem for Doomed Youth, by Wilfred Owen
Music: The Flowers of the Forest (1.23) - Lamplight, by May Wedderburn Cannan
Music: The Sunshine of Your Smile (1.59) - Concert Party: Busseboom, by Edmund Blunden
Music: It’s a Long Was to Tipperary (1.36) - A Girl’s Song, by Katherine Tynan
Music: Goodbye-ee (1.56) - I Have a Rendezvous With Death, by Alan Seeger
Music: Keep the Home Fires Burning (1.21) - The Lads in Their Hundreds, by A.E. Housman
Music: Isca Rose (1.36) - To Victory, by Siegfried Sassoon
Music: Hanging on the Old Barbed Wire & The Menin Gate (2.16) - Who’s for the Game?, by Jessie Pope
Music: Love Will Make the World Go Round (1.06) - The Silent One, by Ivor Gurney
Music: Pack Up Your Troubles (in Your Old Kit Bag) (1.37) - Requiem for the Dead of Europe, by Yvan Goll
Music: Roses of Picardy (1.17) - The General, by Siegfried Sassoon
Music: Bombed Last Night (1.11) - Break of Day in the Trenches, by Isaac Rosenberg
Music: Fred Karno’s Army (1.26) - The Call, by Jessie Pope
Music: The Padre (1.30) - Dulce Et Decorum Est, by Wilfred Owen
Music: Landsend (2.23) - Trench Poets, by Edgell Rickword
Music: When This Bloody War Is Over (1.38) - To an Athlete Dying Young, by a.E. Housman
Music: If You Were the Only Girl in the World (1.48) - August 1914, by Isaac Rosenburg
Music: The Hallsands (1.21) - The Soldier Addresses His Body, by Edgell Rickword
Music: I Wore a Tunic (1.38) - An Irish Airman Foresees His Death, by W.B. Yeats
Music: Cain McSlainte (1.00) - Slumber Song, by Siegfried Sassoon
Music: Silent Night (1.39) - The Soldier, by Rupert Brooke
Music: Thaxted (1.22) - For the Fallen, by Laurence Binyon
Music: Coming Home & Bonny Light Horseman (3.32)
CD 2: Show of Hands
- The Gamekeeper (3.47)
- Goodbyee / If You Were the Only Girl in the World / the Lovely Nymph (3.23)
- The Lads in Their Hundreds (3.27)
- The Padre (4.13)
- Coming Home (3.33)
- It’s a Long Way to Tipperary (1.39)
- The Sunshine of Your Smile (3.06)
- Silent Night (3.09)
- Love Will Make the World Go Round (2.30)
- Goodbye ’Til the Next Time (3.16)
- The Blue Cockade (live at the Shrewsbury Folk Festival, 2013) (6.08)
- Requiem (3.20)
> Folk Music > Records > Show of Hands: The Long Way Home
Show of Hands: The Long Way Home
The Long Way Home Hands On Music HMCD39 (CD, UK, 15 January 2016) |
Produced by Mark Tucker and Show of Hands;
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Mark Tucker at the Green Room, Upottery, Devon;
Photography by Rob O’Connor;
Design and art direction by Stylorouge
Musicians
Steve Knightley: vocals [1-9, 11-12],
mandocello [1-2, 11],
tenor guitar [1-2, 4, 6, 9, 12],
guitar [3-4, 7, 10],
concertina [5-6, 11],
cuatro [8];
Phil Beer: vocals [1-2, 4-10],
fiddle [1-2, 4-6, 8, 10],
mandolin [4, 7, 9, 12];
Miranda Sykes: vocals [1-4, 7-9],
double bass [1-9, 11]
with guests:
Jack Knightley: cajon [1, 6-7];
Michael Wood: spoken Saxon [1];
Ange Hardy: vocal landscape [1, 12];
Chris Hoban: accordion [2-3, 5-6];
Bridge Inn Shantymen (Paul Downes, Chris Hoban, John Redmond, Mick Ryan, Mark Tucker): vocals [2, 5];
Mark Tucker: percussion design [6];
Phillip Henry: mouth organ [6],
mouth harp [7],
dobro [9];
Hannah Martin: fiddle [6, 9];
Jackie Oates: vocals [12],
fiddle [12]
Tracks
- Breme Fell at Hastings (3.35)
- Hallows’ Eve (3.18)
- Hambledon Fair (4.02)
- The Long Way Home (3.21)
- Keep Hauling (2.47)
- ’Twas on One April’s Morning (4.52)
- Sweet Bella (3.46)
- The Old Lych Way (3.43)
- Walk with Me (When the Sun Goes Down) (2.40)
- Virginia (3.10)
- John Harrison’s Hands (4.33)
- Mesopotamia (4.00)
Tracks 1, 4, 7, 9, 12 Steve Knightley;
Tracks 2, 8 Chris Hoban;
Track 3 trad., tune Portsdown Hill by Steve Knightley;
Track 5 Andrew Cadie;
Track 6 trad., tune Isca Rose by Steve Knightley;
Track 10 trad.;
Track 11 Dick Gaughan, Brian McNeill
> Folk Music > Records > Show of Hands: High Germany - 900 Miles to Bremen
Show of Hands: High Germany - 900 Miles to Bremen
High Germany - 900 Miles to Bremen MIG MIG02732 (CD, UK, 1 July 2022) |
CD 1 recorded live at Moments, Bremen, on 5 October 1997;
CDs 2 and 3 live at Sendesaal / Studio F Radio Bremen, Bremen, on 26 September 2005:
Liner notes by Sean McGhee;
Photos by Christine Meyer;
Mastered by Johannes Scheibenreif;
Artwork by Hamoun Beyraghdar
Folking.com review by Dai Jeffries
Musicians
Steve Knightley: vocals, guitar, cuatro,
mandolin [1997],
mandocello [2005],
concertina [2005];
Phil Beer: guitar, violin, vocals,
mandolin [2005],
cuatro [2005];
Miranda Sykes: vocals and double bass [2005]
Tracks
CD 1: Live at Moments, Bremen, 5 October 1997
- Medley: Man of War / The Well / The Oak (10.10)
- Don’t It Feel Good (5.58)
- The Red Rose of England (0.53)
- The Crow on the Cradle (4.39)
- Cars (4.59)
- Medley: Plum Pudding / Rocky Road to Chudleigh (3.49)
- Armadas (7.27)
- Longdog (4.28)
- Crazy Boy (5.33)
- Exile (7.33)
- Corinna, Corinna (3.17)
- The Blind Fiddler (5.34)
- The Train (3.48)
- 900 Miles (5.58)
- High Germany (5.33)
CD 2: Live at Sendesaal / Studio F Radio Bremen, Bremen, 26 September 2005
- Don’t It Feel Good (5.13)
- Red Diesel (4.26)
- Reynardine (Roud 397; Laws P15; G/D 2:333) (5.16)
- Undertow (5.36)
- Medley: Lumps of Plum Pudding / Leaving of Wessex (1.59)
- The Crow on the Cradle (6.59)
- The Blind Fiddler (2.17)
- Galway Farmer (4.57)
- The Oak (4.51)
- I Promise You (5.31)
CD 3: Live at Sendesaal / Studio F Radio Bremen, Bremen, 26 September 2005
- The Dive (7.40)
- When You Think It’s All Over (4.04)
- Country Life (6.23)
- Adieu, Sweet Lovely Nancy (Roud 165) (6.44)
- Cousin Jack (7.47)
- Medley: The Train / Santiago / The Soldiers Joy (14.45)
- Medley: The Setting / Mary From Dungloe (5.42)
- Roots (4.50)
All tracks by Steve Knightley except
Tracks 1.4, 2.6 Sydney Carter;
Tracks 1.5, 2.5 Steve Knightley, Phil Beer;
Tracks 2.3, 4.4 trad.
> Folk Music > Records > Show of Hands
Other records with Show of Hands
Various Artists: Club Sandwich: A Musikfolk Compilation, cassette, Musikfolk MFC511, 1993
Various Artists: Huntingdon Folk, CD, Speaking Volumes SVL 04CD, 1997
Various Artists: Seka [“Sister”], CD, Twah! 113, 1998
Various Artists: Heart of England, CD, Teenage Cancer Trust TCTCD 101, 2000
Various Artists: Heart of England Volume Two, 2 CD, Teenage Cancer Trust TCTCD 102/103, 2002
Oysterband: The Big Session Vol. 1, CD, Westpark 87105, 2004
Various Artists: Folk Festival: A Celebration of Music Recorded at the Sidmouth International Festival, 2 CD, Gott Disks GOTTBOX 011, 2004
Various Artists: Someone Was Calling: “Folk on the Pier” Celebrates 200 Years of Cromer's Lifeboats, 2 CD, Symposium SIUM 1347/48, 2004
Various Artists: BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2005, 2 CD, Proper PROPERFOLK01, 2005
Various Artists: Rubber Folk, CD, Gott GOTTCD035, 2006
Tom Palmer: Tom Palmer, CD, Chudleigh Roots CR001, 2007
Various Artists: BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2007, 3 CD, Proper PROPERFOLK03, 2007
Various Artists: The Mother of All Morris, CD, Talking Elephant TECD118, 2007
Various Artists: Huntingdon Folk 4, CD, Speaking Volumes SVL 14CD, 2008
Various Artists: Never Chance Your Luck Against the Sea, 2 CD, Deckchair DPCD 102/3, 2008
Various Artists: BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2008, 3 CD, Proper PROPERFOLK05, 2008
Various Artists: BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2010, 3 CD, Proper PROPERFOLK10, 2010
Various Artists: Folk Against Fascism, 2 CD, Folk Against Fascism FAF1CD, 2010
Various Artists: Cambridge Folk Festival 2010, DVD, Delphonic DELPH008, 2011
Various Artists: Fresh Handmade Sound: From Source to Sea, CD + DVD, Lush 003, 2011
Various Artists: This Is Proper Folk Too!!, CD, Proper PROPERFOLK13, 2012
Jim Causley: Forgotten Kingdom, CD, Hands On Music HMCD41, 2016
> Folk Music > Records > Show of Hands
Other records with Steve Knightley
Various Artists: Ne Me Quitte Pas: Brel Sung by …, CD, Irregular IRR033, 1998
Ashley Hutchings: Street Cries, CD, Topic TSCD535, 2001
Little Johnny England, Mercs & Cherokees, CD, Fellside FECD166, 2001
Ashley Hutchings: Human Nature, CD, Talking Elephant TECD053, 2003
Steve Knightley, Jackie Oates et al.: Cecil Sharp Project 2011, CD, Shrewsbury Folk Festival SFFCD02, 2011
The Imagined Village: Bending the Dark, CD, ECC ECC006, 2012
Mawkin: Crow, CD, Good Form MKN003, 2012
Ange Hardy: Esteesee, CD, Story STREC1659, 2015
Ange Hardy: When Christmas Day Is Near, CD EP, Story STREC1660, 2015
Various Artists: BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2016, 2 CD, Proper PROPERFOLK17, 2016
Various Artists: The Electric Muse Revisited: The Story of Folk into Rock and Beyond, 4 CD, Good Deeds Music GDM060, 2021