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Just got this Email from Andy Roberts. I was trying to find an old out-of-print vinyl by a band called LONGDANCER (early 70's)..British folk rock, and a band that had Dave Stewart (Eurythmics) as one of it's founding and featured members, when I bumped into some nice CD and record stores online in the UK.  They can be found on NETSOUNDS..fabulous online site for out of print and rare recordings (if they don't have it..really, no-one does).   Through some internetting, I found Andy, and since LONGDANCER I think evolved into PLAINSONG...there you have it.  Andy did play with Iain Matthews in Matthews Southern Comfort, and Iain emerged, as many of you know, from Fairport Convention, in the days when the band featured Richard Thompson, and the late, great, Sandy Denny.  Anyhow...for all fans of British Folk-rock movement of that era, this may be of interest:

 "I always look forward to another Plainsong CD and tour.   They only happen every couple of years or so, and it's a rare treat to leave my usual back-room existence, and breathe in the dusty air of a few clubs and theatres for a change.
 
This time we are renewing acquaintance with Julian Dawson, veteran of the Voices Electric version of the band.   People always ask which was my favourite line-up, but I enjoyed them all in different ways, and I couldn't choose one over another; they'd get jealous of each other.   After all, 31 years has seen a whole barrel of Plainsongs - always with Iain and myself at the heart of them.
 
The new CD is called Pangolins, and features 12 new recordings of songs (no instrumentals this time) which we made at Julian's house in Somerset last November.   It's amazing how technology lets you produce high quality music in a broom cupboard these days.   We won't know exactly what songs will make up the live set until we come together to rehearse before the tour, but we'll certainly be featuring the new record as well as a host of material from the Dawson years of the mid 90s.
 
I'm looking forward to seeing all our old friends on the road."
 
ANDY ROBERTS
 
 
 
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