Oysterband
Oysterband (originally The Oyster Band) is an English electric folk, folk rock, and folk punk band formed in Canterbury in or around 1976.
History
Early history
The band formed in parallel to Fiddler's Dram, and under the name Oyster Ceilidh Band played purely as a dance band at first. The name Oyster comes from the group's early association with the coastal town of Whitstable in East Kent, known for the quality of its oysters. Their first album, released under the Oyster Ceilidh Band name, was Jack's Alive (1980) on the Dingles record label. Subsequent albums, as Oyster Band (sometimes The Oyster Band) were released on the band's own Pukka Music label: English Rock 'n' Roll: The Early Years 1800–1850 and Lie Back and Think of England, followed by Liberty Hall and 20 Golden Tie-Slackeners.
The lineup of the band changed over these albums. The first recorded line-up was:
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ALBUMS
- Diamonds on the Water released: 2014
- Ragged Kingdom released: 2011
- The Oxford Girl and Other Stories released: 2010
- Meet You There released: 2007
- The Big Session, Volume 1 released: 2004
- Oyster Origins 1: Before the Flood released: 2004
- Twenty Golden Tie-Slackeners released: 2003
- Rise Above released: 2002
- Granite Years (Best of... 1986 to '97) released: 2000
- Here I Stand released: 1999
- Alive and Acoustic released: 1998
- Pearls From the Oysters released: 1998
- Deep Dark Ocean released: 1997
- Alive & Shouting released: 1996
- The Shouting End of Life released: 1995
- Trawler released: 1994
- Celtic Junkies released: 1993
- Holy Bandits released: 1993
- Deserters released: 1992
- Freedom and Rain Tour '91 Sampler released: 1991
- Freedom and Rain released: 1990
- Little Rock to Leipzig released: 1990
- Ride released: 1989
- Step Outside released: 1986
- Liberty Hall released: 1985
- Lie Back And Think Of England released: 1983
- English Rock 'n' Roll: The Early Years 1800–1850 released: 1982
- Jack’s Alive released: 1980
- The 25th Anniversary Concert released:
- Wide Blue Yonder released:
The Oxford Girl and Other Stories
Released 2010- The Early Days of a Better Nation
- When I'm Up I Can't Get Down
- By Northern Light
- Blood-Red Roses
- The Soul's Electric
- The Oxford Girl
- Little Brother
- What Wondrous Love Is This?
- Angels of the River
- After Rain
- Shouting About Jerusalem
- The Lakes of Cool Flynn
- The False Knight on the Road
- Put Out the Lights
Twenty Golden Tie-Slackeners
Released 2003- Kentish Cricketers / Galopede
- The Belfast Almanac / Folkestone for the Day
- Three Jolly Sheepskins / Speed the Plough
- Mrs Forster’s / The First of May
- Dumbarton Castle / 'Twas Within a Mile
- Not the Fiery Clockface
- P’s / J’s
- Jack’s Alive / The Clare Jig
- Go and Enlist
- Spaghetti Junction / Dixie’s / Stack Ryan’s
- The Redowa Polka
- La Morisque
- Hunting the Hare / The Clog
- News of the Victory / The One-Horned Sheep
Alive and Acoustic
Released 1998- Sail On By
- Voices
- Be My Luck
- The Oxford Girl
- Native Son
- This Year, Next Year
- Reels: McMahon's / The Sailor's Bonnet
- I Look for You
- Blood-Red Roses
- The Story
- Moving On
- Milford Haven
- Molly Bond
- A Fire Is Burning
- Polkas: Scartaglen / Johnny Leary's / The Humours of Ballydesmond
- All That Way for This
- I Once Loved a Lass
- The Old Triangle
Alive & Shouting
Released 1996- Introduction
- The Shouting End of Life
- We'll Be There
- The World Turned Upside Down
- When I'm Up I Can't Get Down
- Everywhere I Go
- One Green Hill
- 20th of April
- By Northern Light
- We Shall Come Home
- Put Out the Lights
- Don't Slit Your Wrists for Me
- Blood Wedding
- Another Quiet Night in England
- We Could Leave Right Now
Jack’s Alive
Released 1980- The Blean Hoodening Song / The City Branle
- Hunting the Hare / The Clog
- Schottische D’Auvergne / Belle Rosinne
- Oyster River Hornpipe / Herne Bay Dance / The Curlyheaded Ploughboy
- Marche Due Fin Du Bal / The Committee Jig
- The Lakes of Cool Flynn
- The Rambling Sailor
- Brandy
- The Shaalds of Foula
- The Lawyer
- News of the Victory / The One-Horned Sheep
- Limbo
- Boscastle Breakdown
The 25th Anniversary Concert
- Native Son
- Uncommercial Song
- If You Can't Be Good
- The Lost and Found
- The Bishop of Chester's Jig/The Peacock Follows the Hen
- The Peacock Follows the Hen
- Molly Bond
- Mississippi Summer (feat. June Tabor)
- White Rabbit (feat. June Tabor)
- 20th of April
- Everywhere I Go
- Blackwaterside
- This Is the Voice (feat. Chumbawumba)
- When I'm Up (I Can't Get Down)
- The Road to Santiago
- Blood Wedding
- The Shouting End of Life
- Put Out the Lights (feat. June Tabor & Chumbawumba)
- New York Girls
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If You Can't Be Good
by: Oyster Bandten years I've known you now
still friends, I don't know how
each time we talk we row
we're chalk and cheese
you are one son-of-a-gun
the wreck of last night's fun
you're more commotion than
a dog with seven fleas
all night lights you burn
lit up from stem to stern
you're sailing for heavy weather
I hope we both pull through together
and if you can't be good be lucky
if you can't be good be lucky
if you can't be good be, lucky now
you never hit the brakes
you never make mistakes
disaster's in your wake
doing what you please
but still for all the scuzz
a brother is as a brother does
I love you just because
we've ploughed the seven seas
all night lights you burn
lit up from stem to stern
we're sailing for heavy weather
I hope we both pull through together
and if you can't be good be lucky
if you can't be good be lucky
if you can't be good be lucky now
if you can't be lucky lean on me
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