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| www.dotmusic.com now has 820,000 unique users per month and is doing over 14 million pages a month too. That makes us the biggest music website in Europe. I'm the Editor and was a member of the Confusers - the Island's most tasteful new wave band between 1978-80. We played regularly at the Prince Consort and the Babalu as well as at Lakeside and the legendary Wight Rock festivities. Other members were Chris Stringer, Brillo, Damon and Mark Lewis. - Andy Strickland |
| Mornington Lockett Phenomenal UK saxophonist and jazzer who grew up on the Isle of Wight. |
| Village Bike Records - JC and Angelina's website, acoustic blues, hula and thrash skiffle on a musical journey from one end of the Mississippi to the other. |
| Auckland Studios in Ventnor Isle of Wight - Digital Recording Studio. |
| The Waltons Cheese's website dedicated to one of the wild, anarchic and chaotic Island bands of the eighties. Also in the pipeline stuff on The Be Bop Dustbins and Cats Like Plain Crisps. |
| Solent Records & Bandit A&R Newsletter John Waterman's association with Island music began in the 1960s. See also our 1970s archive entry Stormtrooper and the Sid Vicious Connection |
| Pulse The Island's Pink Floyd tribute band who play the Island and farther afield. E-mail them: Pulse email |
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Level
42 Visit Carl Mueller's Level 42 site where you can find all you
needed to know about Level 42 with links and sound files.
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| Wight Bands A new Isle of Wight web site concerned with promoting local bands. Guy running the site is Luke Jeffries and Steve Richmond Email Luke and Steve |
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| Camp
Buckman Hank Beukema aka the Rev. Buckman whose tastes run from Kerouac to Kinky Friedman and beyond. Lots of links and kewwwl stuff on his site as them across the puddle say . . . |
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Galway
Guest House recommendation |
| http://www.adastra-music.co.uk The Adastra agency is responsible for folk music across a broad spectrum from traditional to world music. Amongst the artists they represent for bookings are the acclaimed Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill. |
| http://www.musemix.demon.nl/hd.html Joanna Serraris author of Steve Earle in Quotes and also promoter of the Happy Days Concert series in The Hague. Check out the artists that have played for her, she has the best . . . |
| http://www.heartland.co.uk/
Nick Evans and Jeff Horne are two UK writers who self published an excellent biography on the great Texan songwriter Guy Clark. They have also written a book on Nanci Griffith. |
| Roundtower
Records Supporters of lots of great acoustic based music which has included tours here of Tom Russell and Albuquerque's Hazeldene. |
| Flying
Shoes Offbeat and very informative website named after a Townes Van Zandt song of whom Shaun Belcher is a big fan. Plenty of stuff regularly updated here for those looking wide of sad TV and soggy radio programmes. |
| Whispering
Bob Harris Several radios every week of which the Thursday Country Programme Radio 2 (7-8pm) and the Saturday Night Radio 2 (10-12pm) are places to hear some great material. Full details of all Whispering Bob's shows at his website. |
| Bob
Paterson Windmill Bob Paterson is DJ, researcher and promoter from London. Currently he has a weekly show on the satellite Country Music Radio for Europe. He is also the researcher for the Bob Harris show on Radio 2. Bob also DJs at Radio Avalon, Glastonbury, Cambridge Folk Festival and the Suffolk and Good Festival (where Islander Chiz and Eliza Carthy got the gip from the festival stew . . .) |
| Procol Harum website Roland Clare and fellow collaborator, Jens Anders Ravnaas run the comprehensive 'Beyond The Pale' website devoted to the music of Procol Harum where you will find a some pieces on Procol's Afton Festival appearance in 1970 |
| Family website Patrick Little runs an unofficial Family website from outside of Detroit, USA. The resources for his 'Family "encyclopedia" come from generous contributors in the UK'. Family played the 1969 'Dylan' Festival on the Isle of Wight and Family's guitarist Charlie Witney turns up at the Globe pub on Cowes Seafront on occasions to play some great sets with his new band Los Racketeeros. Patrick's email: Patrick Little |
| Dave Lang's festival
sites in Australia: Main Festival Page Bickershaw 1972 Bath 1969 Captain Beefheart Womadelaide Material on Robyn Hitchcock and Grateful Dead for Isle of Wight Rock's Bickershaw 1972 Diary see: Bickershaw 1972 Diary |