The latest news from Caedmon
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…
Use the links in the side bar to select the years you’re interested in.
| Christmas Term ’73 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 9th Dec | Pollock Carol Service | (Andy, Ken, Angela) |
| Easter Term ’74 | ||
| “Jesus + Folk” – Baird Common Room | Sun Feb 17th | (“CAEDMON” [+ Sam + Simon]) |
| Summer Term ’74 | ||
| “Jesus Thing” George Sq. | May 3rd, Fri | |
| “Jesus Thing” George Sq. | May 10rd, Fri | |
| “Time Machine” | 3rd May 8.00 pm | |
| Summer Vacation4 | ||
| Elm Howe, Patterdale | Sept 25th-28th ’74 | (Simon, Sam, Angie) |
| Andy’s Flat | ||
| Autumn Term ’74 | ||
| Freshers week | Fri & Sat nights | Hill Place |
| Sun night | Baird Common Rm. | |
| Torch Fellowship | October – Sat afternoon | (Jim joined) |
| Time Machine | Nov 8th | |
| Rutherglen – Stonelaw Church (Dennis Brice)[1] | Nov 10th | |
| George Sq bread & cheese lunches | Thursdays | |
| Pollock Carol Service | Sun Dec 8th | |
| Queen Margaret’s College | Dec 11th [or 10th?] | (Carol Service) |
| Charisma | Dec 13th | |
| Spring Term ’75 | ||
| Sellindge Vicarage | Dec 31st – Jan 3rd | |
| Denny High School | Jan 8th 12.30pm + 4pm | |
| Motherwell Maranatha Centre | Jan 12th | |
| Mission Cafe | Jan 16th + Jan 17th | |
| KB Union | Jan 20th 1pm | |
| Mission Cafe | Jan 25th | |
| Radio Forth recording (Netherbow) | Jan 27th | |
| Radio Forth programme | Feb 2nd 7.30am | |
| International reception | Feb 5th | (+ Alan)[2] |
| Queen Margaret College | Feb 10th | |
| ‘Mitre’ audition | Feb 13th | |
| St Thomas’s Guest Service | Feb 16th | |
| Charisma | Feb 21st | |
| ‘Mitre’ | Feb 22nd | |
| Craigmount School | Feb 24th + Feb 28th | |
| Mitre | ||
| Charisma | Mar 7th | |
| Summer Term ’75 | ||
| Fri 11th April | Whitley Bay Baptist Church | (33 C.P.A. NEWCASTLE Wed 9th -> Sun 13th)[3] |
| Thurs 17th | Dunfermline College of Physical Education | |
| Fri 18th | Charisma | |
| Sat 19th | Mitre | |
| Fi 25th | Charisma | |
| Sat 26th | Mitre | |
| Thurs 1st May | East Suffolk Halls | |
| Sat 3rd | Mitre | |
| Fri 9th | Charisma | (with Water Into Wine Band) |
| Sat 10th | Motherwell Civic Theatre | |
| Sun 11th | Bathgate | |
| Fri 16th | Crieff, Morrison’s School | |
| Sat 17th | Mitre | |
| Fri 23rd | Charisma | |
| Sat 24th | Mitre | |
| Sat 31st | Mitre | |
| Fri 6th June | Eyemouth | |
| Sat 7th | Mitre | |
| Fri 13th | Charisma | |
| Summer Vac | ||
| Netherbow | ||
Links to later academic years will appear in the sidebar.
[1] Dennis Brice was a fellow student who, IIRC, had recently become a minister and invited us to his church. He had a green Renault 4, I seem to recall.
[2] Alan Torrance – see reference on another page on this site – I’ll link to it when I work out how.
And in case there are any doubters out there, here’s video evidence that Caedmon can actually still play their instruments. …
And here’s the video evidence