Nicely Out Of Tune

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Anna Mylott, Alan and Pat's live-in nanny and close friend of the band ('Oh Anna what does money mean anyway' ) Yes, that Anna. Bruce Eder of AllMusic praised Nicely Out of Tune as "easily the best album the group ever recorded". Nicholas’ Hospital in Newcastle, in the days when alcoholics were prescribed 25 milligrammes of LSD per day.

Of course you wouldn’t get a band like this, nowadays, securing the commercial success of Lindisfarne (ok, maybe Mumford? This is a good quality recording, no pops and scratches ;-), and even the two bonus tracks are good as well as familiar.This debut is probably their best, boasting pint-swinging tunes like "Lady Eleanor", "Scarecrow Song", "Clear White Light" and "We Can Sing Together".

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. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.Then there is the "Hull family", Alan's wife Pat and their daughters Rosamund, Francesca and Berenice. Drummond Amin, Tyneside rock'n'roll godfather and owner of the Shaftsbury electric 12 string guitar that Lindisfarne borrowed for the NOOT recording sessions. That was in 1983, when I’d not long started work and I had to go into a training day unable to hear much beyond the ringing in my ears. 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. Most of the songs were written by Alan Hull, with Rod Clements adding two and Rab Noakes adding one (the Noakes tune, Turn a Deaf Ear was a staple of pub sessions in Edinburgh for years).

Stücke wie der "Jackhammer Blues" oder der "Knacker's Yard Blues" sind nicht nach meinem Geschmack und passen auch nicht wirklich in den Flow. I don’t remember if Jacka and I volunteered to design the ‘Nicely’ sleeve or if it was just presumed that we would.On the other hand, the followers could probably sing every word of ‘We can swing together’ and I suspect the roof came off on several venues when this was played live. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. A live version can be found on the group's Lindisfarne Live, recorded in 1971 and released in 1973, and as a bonus track on their third album, Dingly Dell.