Nicely Out Of Tune

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Tracks like the "Jackhammer Blues" or the "Knacker's Yard Blues" are not according to my taste and don't really fit the flow. Our self-promoted gigs at venues like Jesmond Banqueting Hall and the New Orleans Jazz Club attracted a clientele who were as daft as us and often remarked on the whacky self-produced advertising material that had drawn them to our gigs. milligrammes later, Hull tripped for a month and still had flashbacks in 1978 (‘pretty frightening, really’). It charted more than a year after release, thanks to the huge success of their second album Fog on the Tyne, which topped the charts early in 1972. The record itself comes in a printed brown paper inner sleeve with a small white band logo in the centre.

This kicks off with one of the most famous songs, still very enjoyable many years later (ok, ok FOTN was massive but I felt Lady Eleanor was a more traditional, ‘closer to the bands roots’ type of song than the commercial success of ‘Fog’). Great CD, a few of my favorite tunes are: Down, Jackhammer Blues, Knackers Yard Blues and Scarecrow Song. He came out of the end with songs that were in Lindisfarne’s repertoire for years, notably Lady Eleanor, Winter Song, Clear White Light (pt.At that time few local promoters would take a chance on booking us as our repertoire of Tyneside Delta Blues, Dylan influenced originals and Zappa covers was a little challenging to their regular punters who prefered a backdrop of Tamla Motown songs to fight and fornicate to. Mr Bolton, owner of the local garage that regularly repaired Lindisfarne's vans at ridiculously low cost. A more masculine brand of English folk rock, complete with strong melodies and eerily reedy harmonies. Ray Jackson and myself had met at art college, a well-known safe haven for musicians who had yet to figure out how to make a living from music.

Track B1 published by Hazy/Heathside, Track B4 published by Stratsong and Track B5 published by Essex Music. Bruce Eder of AllMusic praised Nicely Out of Tune as "easily the best album the group ever recorded". Lady Eleanor" counterbalances any complaints I have, in any case: it's such a well structured song, particularly in regard to the slow, ethereal intro and the way it holds back its chorus until after the second verse (and what a lovely chorus it is, too). Uncle Tony was Tony Stratton Smith, Lindisfarne's manager and owner of the Charisma label which was based at Number 7, Dean Street (I think).

For a while an artist friend of ours produced a monthly, hand drawn, one sheet comic, featuring the mythical exploits of our band. Of course you wouldn’t get a band like this, nowadays, securing the commercial success of Lindisfarne (ok, maybe Mumford?

On the back of the insert are the lyrics - American releases always try to have lyric sheets enclosed somewhere, it seems.This is truly a great song, listen to the words and think how something written over 40 years ago is still so meaningfull today. Nicholas’ Hospital in Newcastle, in the days when alcoholics were prescribed 25 milligrammes of LSD per day. Some of the songs are cruder in their arrangements than they became, notably We Can Swing Together, and I sometimes hear echoes of contemporaries: the Faces certainly, perhaps too Dr Strangely Strange. The "flatulette" was actually one of the band members blowing raspberries during the instrumental break in "Down".