The latest news from Caedmon
Last weekend a new song was put in the pot by Jim: ‘Let the Four Winds Blow’ in a Black Gospel mode. Recently introduced song ‘Elephant in the Chatroom’ discovered its groove, and the whole new set list found a …
The astute listeners will spot the updated Ouagadougou vocals track on myspace and youtube….. Ken gets less BBC and closer to his roots. But also clock that there are a good number of people listening to the new tracks: Childless, …
There are now ten new songs in the pipeline being worked up by Jim, Ken, Sam and Simon. But are they Acid Folk? Perhaps Psychedelic Folk or Folk Rock……. Christian Contemporary……. a bit Wyrd….. New Indie Mondiale Scottish….. one eavesdropper …
We’ve had three writing and recording sessions in the past few months, and loads of takes to be mixed and mastered over the next few weeks.
One of the six songs is Ouagadougou, and Ken has put an early mix together, produced a video and uploaded it to Youtube.
Is there no end to the man’s talents you cry.
See for yourself.
Being a personal view this is of course very like the elephant itself.
Yup. Ken’s put up a Myspace Caedmon site on erm… Myspace. As a respected web designer I know nothing about Myspace, and frankly I hope to keep it that way. But the good news is that you can hear some …
Sadly this is where the record, so far as we have it at the moment, stops. The dates are written on sheets of writing paper pasted into the Caedmon scrapbook, but it looks as though the last one, with the remainder of ’77 and ’78, is missing. If we find it I’ll fill the rest of this in.
| Winter ’76 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Friday 8th Oct | Glasgow Univ. Barbecue | |
| Sat 9th Oct | “Naked Christian” Geo Sq Lect Th | |
| 16th Oct | Aberdeen C.U. | |
| 17th | Ellon | (Mike Frew) |
| 20th | Harthill Mission Centre | |
| 24th | Davidson’s Mains Ch. of Scot. | |
| 29th | Charisma | |
| Nov 10th | Stirling C.U. Pathfoot Building | |
| 13th | Hull Union | |
| 19th | Charisma | |
| 21st | Crieff | |
| 24th | Coulter’s Charity Concert | |
| 27th | Manchester | |
| Easter Term ’77 | ||
| Friday 21st Jan | Heriot’s School | |
| Sat 29th Jan | Bruntsfield Evan. | |
| Sun 30th Jan | Craiglockhart | (Jim Christie’s) |
| Sat 5th Feb | Dundee Univ C.U. | |
| Sun 6th Feb | St Ninians Corstorphine | |
| Friday 18th Feb | Charisma | |
| Sat 19th Feb | Grangemouth | (J.Cockburn); |
| Sat 26th Feb | Troon | — Brethren |
| Sun 27th Feb | Haddington | |
| Sat 5th Mar | Hull Univ. C.U. | |
The academic year ’75-’76 was notable because Simon spent most of it in France as part of his course, teaching English in a Lycée in Forbach near Strasbourg. We were down to a foursome – could we hack it?
| Winter Term ’75 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Freshers week | Prof Hunt’s + Chaplaincy Centre Evening [1] | |
| Oct 3rd | Balerno, St Mungo’s | |
| 8th | Hamilton College Freshers Night | |
| 11th | Aberdeen C.U. Barbecue | |
| 12th | Leith St Andrews Y.F. | |
| 19th | Bannockburn, Cowie | |
| 25th | Motherwell | — open air |
| 26th | Motherwell | — civic centre |
| Nov 2nd | Bathgate, St John’s YF | |
| 7th | Dick Vet “Outward Axis” Barbecue, Galashiels | |
| 9th | Auchterarder Annual Youth Rally | |
| 19th | Stirling Univ C.U. | |
| 20th | George Sq Bread and Cheese Lunch | |
| 23rd | Carrick Knowe YF | |
| 24th | Dunfermline College | (cancelled on arrival) |
| 30th | Ponton House | |
| Dec 6th | Willy’s — Glenrothes[2] | |
| 7th | St Thomas’ Guest Service | (Last of G Bridger) [3] |
| Easter Term ’76 | ||
| Jan 17th | CU Celidh | |
| 18th | Maranatha Centre | |
| 19th | Dunfermline College of Ed | |
| 25th | Bishopbriggs Brethren | |
| 28th | Netherbow Concert | |
| 30th | Dumfries Y.F. | |
| 31st | North Berwick Pavillion [sic] | |
| Feb 2nd | Q. Margs. C.U. meeting | (Talk) |
| 14th | Manchester | |
| 28th | Broughty Ferry | (van broke down) |
| Mar 5th | Charisma | |
| Summer Term ’76 | ||
| May 2nd | St Caths. Argyll | |
| Summer Vac ’76 | ||
| June 19th – 26th | Swaledale [4] | |
| Aug 10th – 14th | St Ninians Crieff[5] | |
| 14th | Aviemore — Speyside Th. | |
| 16th – 28th | Netherbow | |
[1] Professor Norman Hunt was the Edinburgh University Christan Union’s Honorary President. He and his wife used to host student gatherings at their rather astonishing house in Ravelston Dykes Road.
[2] This was at the home and home church of the man who is now Professor William F. Storrar of Princeton University. He was also responsible for our first gig as a fivesome, the “Jesus + Folk” event in the Baird House Common Room.
[3] Gordon Bridger was the vicar or rector of St Thomas’ Episcopal Church in Corstorphine, a student-friendly church. I think he moved to Norwich.
[4] Carolyn Dougill, our sound person and sometime girlfriend of Jim, arranged a cottage in Gunnerside in Swaledale for us all to spend a week in (getting Simon back in to harness and working on new material). I remember I got a summer job unexpectedly quickly and could only be there for the weekends.
[5] St Ninians was a Church of Scotland training centre in Crieff where Jim’s dad was the manager/warden/high heid yin, so Jim managed to find us rehearsal space there.
Transcribed from the lists maintained by Angela and Ken in the Caedmon scrapbook. For the moment I’ve left the columns in the same format as they appear on the page. I might consider changing the layout to make it more readable. If anyone really sad out there wants to request it we could put in images of the scrapbook pages so you can see for yourself. It’s the sort of thing only a really obsessive fan would consider, of course…
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