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EINDHOVEN
Newly discovered live recording of a concert at TAC, Eindhoven on the 4th of March 2011 now out for Bandcamp Friday.
Available as a full quality digital download and perhaps soon as a limited, hand stamped CD-r if anyone would like that.
Annabel
Boys, I Am Worried
I Know What I Make Isn’t Fine
The Royal Canal
Suit Of Stones
I Do Wrong
Song For Fee
Paper Birds
Song For A Coalman
You Belong To Me, You Do
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New live CD-r editions now available
I’ve recently put together new edits and masters of a few live recordings and have made them available today in simple CD-r editions and free / pay what you like downloads.
Here they are on Bandcamp:
And you can also pick up the CD-r versions here directly on my site:
• Recorded at Künstlerkeller in Darmstadt, Germany on the 11th of March 2023.
• Hand stamped CD-r
• Includes download code
Track list:
What You Fear To Be The End Comes Around
The Royal Canal
Here Comes Your Son
Work With This
Deserter
Bedlam Boys Are Bonny
When I Was Away
The Hills Are Alive
While I Was Sleeping
We Could Have, We Should Have, We Didn’t
So Long Song
Super Good Advice
Leave Well Alone
• Recorded at Prinz Willy in Kiel, Germany on the 25th of November 2022.
• Hand stamped CD-r
• Includes download code
Track list
When I Was Away
The Royal Canal
Here Comes Your Son
Lover O Lover
Deserter
So Long Song
I Do Wrong
Here
We Could Have, We Should Have, We Didn’t
Work With This
Super Good Advice
Leave Well Alone
Paper Birds
We Swam A Little Song
• Recorded at Badstrasse 8 in Fürth, Germany on the 27th of August 2021.
• Hand stamped CD-r
• Includes download code of full 17 song concert
Track list:
When I Was Away
The Royal Canal
Down Down Down
Hove Beach And Eggshells
The Ghost Is The Only One That Beats My Drum
Song For A Coalman
If I Have To Walk All The Way To England
Super Good Advice (with Stefanie VIVIAN VOID)
Lord Franklin
So Long Song
Paper Birds
We Swam A Little Song
Fürth this Friday
Back at my beloved Badstrasse 8 in fine Fürth this Friday.
Here’s last time, back in summer of 2021:
'Bahnhof' now available
Improvisation (i)
Here Comes Your Son
If You’re Looking To Get Lost In The North That’s What We Got
Improvisation (ii)
Improvisation (iii)
Bedlam Boys Are Bonny
Improvisation (iv)
While I Was Sleeping
Make A Dead One Of It
Understudy
Bold Boy
Improvisation (v)
Recorded at Bruggen Bahnhof, St Gallen, Switzerland on the 28th of February 2023 and available exclusively as a limited edition CD-r edition and full quality download to my brilliant Patreon and Bandcamp subscribers.
'Bedlam Boys are Bonny' with Fee Reega
Out today for Bandcamp Friday - rather spontaneous version with Fee of this 18th century folk song.
'The Bedlam Boys Are Bonny'
Listen to my version of the 18th century song / poem 'The Bedlam Boys Are Bonny' from my new 'Won't Be Found By Looking' 6 song EP out next week.
Stuttgart 10.02.23
My next concert is in a couple of weeks in the brilliant Theater Rampe in Stuttgart.
Free download - 'Leave Well Alone'
It's my birthday - my last album 'Leave Well Alone ' is free / pay what you like for a few days. Click the image for it - please grab and share away.
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy 'Good To My Girls'
Off topic post for a song I’ve been listening to a lot this week. This is Will Oldham, aka Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy singing his version of a Matt Sweeney number as the last song of his concert in London at the start of December.
I was lucky enough to get to Will’s concert in Frankfurt a few days before this. It was a magical evening and, whilst I’m disappointed not to have found a recording of that show, this from a few nights afterwards is a wonderful listen. His songs, words and performances have been an enormous influence and source of joy for as long as I can remember making music.
The complete recording of the London show is available at Dimeadozen here and the photo above is from the Frankfurt show. Click through it for the original post on Instagram.
'KIEL' free download and limited CD-r now available
A recording from my concert at Prinz Willy in Kiel, Germany on the 25th of November is now available for everyone through my Bandcamp as a full quality download and also as a very simple, physical edition on CD-r.
This was a nice evening for me, with a quiet audience and a great sound in the little place. I worked on the recording the past weekend and I think it turned out ok, perhaps the best sounding concert I've had for a while.
When I Was Away
The Royal Canal
Here Comes Your Son
Lover O Lover
Deserter
So Long Song
I Do Wrong
Here
We Could Have, We Should Have, We Didn’t
Work With This
Super Good Advice
Leave Well Alone
Paper Birds
We Swam A Little Song
'Work With This' from Kiel
Posting recordings from my recent concerts over on my Patreon. Here’s a little song from last Friday.
'Fire Escape' available again
Number 30 in The Great Park's monthly subscription releases is out now.
Blackwater
Fair And Fine
I Will See Myself Out
Pure Black Coal
Under Water
Fire Escape
Originally released in an edition of just 20 CD’s in March 2008, and unavailable since then, ‘Fire Escape’ is a mini-album of six songs, including the 12 minute ‘I Will See Myself Out’. Recorded in a couple of different Brighton rooms, including the basement of an Oxfam shop, this features Sam Collins on electric guitar on most tracks. A loose, scrappy little set of songs recorded and released within a matter of days.
'Fire Escape' has now been remastered and the download includes new linear notes. All subscription releases are also available during the month they come out as limited CD-r editions which I personalise and will send to you where ever you are.
FREITAL II
My recording from my concert at the Spielbühne in Freital, Germany on the 4th of November 2022 is available through Bandcamp and on Patreon now.
The download is free / pay what you like and the simple, CD-r + download edition is limited to just 50 numbered copies and is €10 plus postage. I’ll send them out when I'm back from some concerts in a week and they look like this:
This was a long concert over 2 sets and I cut some tracks from the recording due to some issues with the signal I had from the mixing desk. I also played a couple of songs in the room which are missing, you can imagine.
Anyway, it runs like this - just about squeezing onto a single CD-r.
When I Was Away
The Royal Canal
Here Comes Your Son
Work With This
We Could Have, We Should Have, We Didn’t
Blind Willie McTell (Bob Dylan)
The Ghost Is The Only One That Beats My Drum
Paper Birds
Here
The Hills Are Alive
We Swam A Little Song
Super Good Advice
Leave Well Alone
'The Ghost Is The Only One That Beats My Drum' live in Leipzig
Click the image above to listen to a version of this song played live in Leipzig at the beautiful Horns Erben.
I’m posting more from this show and the next in Freital all week to my Patreon and Bandcamp subscribers. Please sign up to either of those to get all the new music as I make it and support me directly.
Thanks all
Free download and Horns Erben in Leipzig this week
I’m returning to Leipzig this Wednesday night for a concert at the beautiful Horns Erben. To celebrate, for this week only I’m making the recording of my first concert there available for free / pay what you like.
17 songs from September 2017, including a bunch of things I don’t normally play. Grab it below and please share this with anyone you think might be interested in this stuff.
If you would like to come to the concert, tickets are at https://www.tixforgigs.com/Event/44717 and the Facebook event is here. I have a few guest list places so why not drop me an email at thegreatpark@icloud.com and I’ll pop you on there.
Thanks all,
Stephen
'Ballard' now available
November’s monthly release is the complete set of pieces I improvised and recorded for the ‘Biest Liest’ book club episode about JG Ballard.
Improvisation (i) (2:34)
Improvisation (ii) (1:58)
Improvisation (iii) (4:18) - listen below
Improvisation (iv) (1.33)
Improvisation (v) (1.01)
Wise Women, 1964 (10:16)
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Switzerland house concert recordings
I’m posting a bunch of recordings from these house shows I’m playing this weekend down here in Switzerland all week over on my Patreon page. Starts at €3 a month for much exclusive music and a direct way to support me. Click the button below to pop over there and have a look.
The Great Park - '‘You Were Somewhere, You Thought You Were Nowhere’ - first live version
Recorded at the Hin & Herzo festival in Herzogenaurach at the end of September. Debut live performance - original version at https://thegreatpark.bandcamp.com/album/you-were-somewhere-you-thought-you-were-nowhere. Filmed by Mina Reischer.
BIEST LIEST J.G. Ballard
I recently recorded some music for the ‘Biest Liest’ book club - a monthly meetup and audio project, archived on Soundcloud. For their Ballard episode I read from his autobiography and improvised electric guitar and piano - listen to the full show and all the previous editions below:
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