Steeleye Span The Forum London Uk 1995-09-02 songs omitted from "The Journey" CD 2nd gen cassette FLAC

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THE ARTISTS:-

Ashley Hutchings
Maddy Prior
Gay Woods
Martin Carthy
Liam Genockey
Michael Gregory
Tim Hart
Tim Harries
Bob Johnson
Rick Kemp
John Kirkpatrick
Peter Knight
Nigel Pegrum


REVIEW BY NICK CLARK, OCTOBER 1999

THE JOURNEY
Steeleye Span Live at The Forum
Kentish Town, London
2nd September 1995

Four years after this historic concert events have conspired to allow the release of a CD of the best of the evenings entertainments.For those that don't know or can't remember, this was the night all the versions of Steeleye Span came together to reprise some of their best work. With the exception of Terry Woods from the first line up all the famous names that have appeared over the bands twenty-five years put aside their differences and played together - even the first line up that never managed it first time around.

The concert was the brainchild of Dave Hill, long time associate of the band and actor."When I asked them if they'd do it they all agreed" he said, "But that was because each one thought the others would refuse".

The result was the assembling of five line-ups including Tim Hart who had long since retired to a Canary island and had to come up with a dulcimer to play having not had one since quitting the band thirteen years previously. Other members to give their time for the gig (in aid of the charity War Child) included founder member Ashley Hutchings and folk legend Martin Carthy.The organisation was fraught with problems.Drummer Nigel Pegrum had to be flown in from Australia and the only member to span all the five line-ups - Maddy Prior had been told to rest her voice after an operation. She was needed on stage for the whole gig !

On the day, the hall in London was packed with folkies who watched Dave Hill with friend Brian Glover and Martin Carthy and spouse warm up the afternoon session before a rousing three hour finale of the ultimate Span concert.

For Span 1 Carthy sat in on banjo for Terry Woods who didn't show and Maddy and Gay sang vocals. For the second version he moved onto electric guitar and the band played early seventies material (the first version made only one album - 'Hark The Village Wait').He came back in the fourth version and the evening concluded with a line-up that included the then regular drummer Liam Genockey.The event was well-received by the press and even had a write up in The Guardian. Their reviewer concluded, "Dave Hill did more than raise money for Bosnia

Altogether then an excellent piece of work. Some real highs in hearing the earliest line-up perform and seeing how well the later ones had retained their high level of energy. Again one can only admire the standard of musicianship in coming into these songs with so little rehearsal and playing them so well - it could easily have been a much-practised studio recording. Perhaps this is to be expected given the musicians who have passed through Span in a quarter of a century but it is still a delight to hear and a really good album. Now where's the video to go with it?


Steeleye 1 Gay Woods, Maddy Prior, Tim Hart, Ashley Hutchings, Martin Carthy and John Kirkpatrick (both to play Terry Wood's part, the only Steeleye member not present), Michael Gregory (drums, to replace Mk 1 studio drummers Gerry Conway and Dave Mattacks)

01 banter
02 My Johnny was a shoemaker

Steeleye 2 Maddy Prior, Tim Hart, Martin Carthy, Peter Knight, Ashley Hutchings

03 banter
04 The King

Steeleye 3 Maddy Prior, Tim Hart, Bob Johnson, Peter Knight, Rick Kemp, Nigel Pegrum

05 banter
06 Black Jack Davy

Steeleye 4 Maddy Prior, Tim Hart, Martin Carthy, John Kirkpatrick, Rick Kemp, Nigel Pegrum

07 banter
08 17 come Sunday
09 banter
10 Black Freighter
11 banter
12 False Knight on the Road

Everyone

13 banter
14 Gaudete (Gaudaytay!!!)