AFTER 45 YEARS ON THE ROAD, OYSTERBAND HAVE DECIDED TO TAKE THE TOUR BUS OUT FOR ITS LAST RIDE
“We’re hanging up our travelling shoes, but we’re taking a year or so to say goodbye to our lovely live audience.And we mean to enjoy every minute!”
Emerging in the early 80s from their folk club and ceilidh band days, Oysterband infused both the tradition and their own songs with a passion and energy that was electrifying for the time. Polkas, politics and a heaving dance floor seemed just 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 international following.
Their collaboration with June Tabor in 1990 produced the cult-classic album Freedom & Rain, and it was renewed 21 years later for Ragged Kingdom, one of the best-selling folk-rock albums of the new millennium.
Winners of several BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, including Best Band twice, Oysterband’s song-writing has never stood still, and classics such as The Oxford Girl, When I’m Up (I Can’t Get Down), Everywhere I Go and Put Out The Lights have entered the folk canon.
“It’s been a long, tough, joyful journey, but the time has come”
In the words of our own song Granite Years, we’re waving you a long, long goodbye…..come help us celebrate!”
All 3 of our albums with June Tabor will be available from October 2024 – Freedom & Rain and Ragged Kingdom on CD and LP, Fire & Fleet on CD.
ALL TICKETS FROM November ON ARE ON SALE VIA: alonglonggoodbye.live
“A LONG LONG GOODBYE” brings OYSTERBAND in Nov touring in UK:
Nov 04 Theatre Severn Shrewsbury [UK]
Nov 05 Storyhouse Chester [UK]
Nov 06 City Varieties Music Hall Leeds [UK]
Nov 08 St Petroc’s Church Bodmin [UK]
Nov 09 St Mary’s Church Bruton [UK]
Nov 12 Norden Farm AC Maidenhead [UK]
Nov 13 The Stables Milton Keynes [UK]
Nov 14 The Apex Bury St Edmunds [UK]
Nov 16 Brewery AC Kendal [UK]
Nov 18 Band on the Wall Manchester [UK]
Nov 19 East Riding Theatre Beverley [UK]
Nov 20 Memorial Hall Sheffield [UK]
Nov 22 Corn Exchange Hertford [UK]
Nov 23 Queens Hall Theatre Cranbrook [UK]
Nov 24 Allendale Centre Wimborne [UK]
Dec 02 Exeter Phoenix Exeter [UK]
Dec 03 Exeter Phoenix Exeter [UK]
Dec 04 The Wedgewood Rooms Portsmouth [UK]
Dec 05 Subscription Rooms Stroud [UK]
Dec 06 St James’ Church Emsworth [UK]
2025 OYSTERBAND:
Jan 11 Blackpool Winter Gardens UK West
Coast Folk Festival [UK]
Jan 17 St Luke’s (Celtic Connections) Glasgow [UK]
OYSTERS 3:
Jan 21 to Feb 04 La Gomera Winter Retreat
La Gomera (Canary Islands) [ES]
OYSTERBAND:
Mar 01 Tørning Mølle near Vojens [DK]
Mar 03 Folkets Hus Struer [DK]
Mar 05 Skraaen Aalborg [DK]
Mar 06 Foderstoffen Ringe [DK]
Mar 07 Medborgerhuset Lunden Silkeborg [DK]
Mar 08 Portalen Greve (for CPH) [DK]
Mar 10 Knust Hamburg [DE]
Mar 11 Frannz Club Berlin [DE]
Mar 12 Pavillon Hannover [DE]
Mar 13 Music Hall Worpswede [DE]
Mar 14 Kulturkirche Köln [DE]Mar 15 Musiktheater Rex Bensheim [DE]
Mar 16 Zeche Bochum Bochum [DE]
May 09 End of the Pier Festival Cromer [UK]
View https://www.oysterband.co.uk/ for many more information
