The latest news from Caedmon
A full house, with audience travelling from Washington DC, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Northumberland and Newcastle, with first timers from the Netherlands and Germany and of course, Edinburgh.
JIm’s ‘Old Enough to Know Better’ was storming with guests William Jaquet (kit), …
The Netherbow Theatre is small and intimate, the crowd almost filling it on the first night….. a loud hubbub of old friends sharing memories greeted the band as they took to the stage.
The first song was ‘Peace in the …
We’re installed and ready for a run through and sound check. See you tonight if you’re coming….…
At the farewell concert in 1978 there was quite a lot of black and white worn…… we never adopted a dress code: no equivalent to Beatles suits, not even Double Denim and Waistcoats (a popular folk rock dress format). But …
The weekend concerts are close. I promised a video of time-related imagery to back-project during the performance one of our new songs: ‘TIme Flies’. So ironic that the song it’s for details the dilemma I’m in “..Time flies when you’re …
Back home after seven solid days in the studio.
It’s Tuesday now and we perform our first concert for 32 years at 7.30pm on Friday……
You’d expect that a week of recording activity means that I now know all my …
Form 9am to 6pm Steve toils to get as much down as we can in the allotted week of recording. We’ve got Angela’s all important lead vocals and backing vocals to do, but most of the album is there, ready …
Today the four men in Caedmon confronted the challenge of singing lead vocals, whilst we wait for Angela’s studio contribution next week. Simon sang lead on ‘Sea Song’ in 1978, and we’ve all sung solo at different times and in …
The debate about definitions of Acid Folk and whether Caedmon should be in ‘that bag’ continues and some extraordinary descriptions exist in reviews e.g. from ‘Rate Your Music’
http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/caedmon/caedmon/ :
‘The greatest of all hippy folk albums, if you ask …
A mammoth day of pushing through the rhythm tracks:
“Elephant in the Chatroom’: spill the beans, are we all too blind to see?….. a song that emerged from jamming together.
‘Let the Four Winds Blow’: Jim’s song in gospel style. …