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The meaning of Sea Song

(or How Tony learnt to deal with a chronic dose of confusion)

All alone as you’re waving goodbye to the world

The coloured flags flutter and fly

The thoughts that were dreams of the past …

Click on the fox to hear Jim and archive audio from Farewell Concert 1978.

Death of a Fox was written in 5:4, which is the same rhythm as Take Five by the Dave Brubeck Quartet. Y’know, it really ought to …

Beyond the Second Mile – Caedmon/Caedmon

Recording from Farewell Concert 1978.

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The Reverend Professor William F Storrar, an internationally known academic theologian with way too many letters after his name, used to be known just as Willie. Back …

When we set about making our third studio album in 2018, we met a number of times in Edinburgh recording together in Simon’s garret studio.

We decided to copy the same format as our first eponymous album. 500 vinyl LPs …

Ouagadougou: ‘A Chicken to Hug’

Durham Demo Version 2008 with this link:

Caedmon · Ouagoudougou Durham Demo 2008

It was a joy to play together again after 30 years in 2008 when we started to put together our second studio …

Ten Maidens Fair: Caedmon / Caedmon

Here’s a recording from our Farewell concert 1978 of Ten Maidens Fair, the first track on the original eponymous Caedmon album. The recordings have never been released because of the mains hum which spoils …

The band met in Edinburgh in 2019 to film a series of short videos entitled:

– Caedmon: Rare
Collectable Caedmon
Caedmon’s Edinburgh
Caedmon: the 1978 recording
– Caedmon: Psych Folk
– Caedmon: the promo

Caedmon the full length documentary
They …

Caedmon have just published a new track, based on the medieval Christian poem ‘The Dream of the Rood’ which some believe to have been written by the seventh century monk Caedmon.

Developed from a jam session in January 2016, the …

From Terrascope

Durham/ Edinburgh/ Manchester/ West Bromwich residents Caedmon – gone from the music world for 30 years but now reformed, at least, in theory – have a new folk-infused album out, “A Chicken To Hug,” in which improvised material

That rarest of rare things, a Caedmon gig!

Only 18 months after the last gig and a lifetime after Caedmon played farewell in 1978, the band are getting together to play some old favourites and feature songs from the new …