The Albion Band have just released a track from their new (as yet unreleased) album ‘The Vice of The People‘. The featured track ‘One More Day‘ is a blinder & shows that they are more than capable of carrying on the British folk music legacy of The Albion Band. It is featured on bandcamp as a free download or ‘name your price’.
“For a good number of years people have been encouraging me to re-form The Albion Band. I have resisted these calls; getting the old faces together again in a permanent kind of way didn’t seem the right thing to do. Then, just before last Christmas, I had a Eureka moment. The way forward was to allow a new generation to take over the baton of The Albion Band. The next day I asked my son Blair what he thought of being part of a new re-invented Albion Band. His reply was that he couldn’t think of anything he would rather do. We were up and running. Initially, I thought I would be some kind of Brian Wilson-figure, lurking in the background, pulling the strings. However it hasn’t turned out that way. The youngsters don’t need me and are building something new themselves.” Ashley Hutchings
UK Tour
Sat 11 Feb Cheltenham Folk Festival 0844 5762210
Thu 1 Mar Camberley Theatre 01276 707600
Fri 2 Mar Bradford St Georges 01274 432000
Sat 3 Mar Durham Gala Theatre 0191 3324041
Sun 4 Mar Boston Blackfriars Arts Centre 01205 363108
Tue 6 Mar Leamington Royal Spa Centre 0845 2183540
Wed 7 Mar Tewkesbury Roses Theatre 01684 295074
Thu 8 Mar Lichfield Garrick Theatre 01543 412121
Fri 9 Mar Worthing Assembly Hall 01903 206206
Sat 10 Mar Harpenden Public Halls 01582 767525
Sun 11 Mar Wellingborough Castle Theatre 01933 270007
Tue 13 Mar Stevenage Gordon Craig Theatre 01438 363200
Thu 15 Mar Tunbridge Wells Assembly Halls 01892 530613
Fri 16 Mar Christchurch Regent 01202 499199
Sun 18 Mar Whitley Bay Playhouse 0844 2772771
Mon 19 Mar Wakefield Theatre Royal 01925 211311
Thu 22 Mar Chesham Elgiva Theatre 01494 582900
Fri 23 Mar Norwich Playhouse 01603 598598
Sun 25 Mar Edinburgh Queens Hall 0131 6682019
Tue 27 Mar Stockport Plaza 0161 4777779
Fri 30 Mar Aberystwyth Arts Centre 01970 624335
Sat 31 Mar Scunthorpe Plowright Theatre 0844 8542776
Sun 1 Apr Kings Lynn Corn Exchange 01553 764864
Mon 2 Apr Bristol Colston Hall 2 0117 9223686
Tue 3 Apr Croydon Ashcroft Theatre 0208 6889291
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