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MOSTLY AUTUMN

At this page you can find the videos of the TV appareance and pictures, a lot and beautiful ;-)



News August 2011: new live album out!

News May 2011:
Live Review April 2011
+ picures by Tim Hall.
Radio BBC2, interview with Bryan and acoustic live!
BBC2, Radio, Bob Harris Sunday, go to 1:18 hours.



Live pictures from their Dutch tour:

Roger Newport / Zoetermeer.
from Groningen by Bert Treep.
Jorrit van Bennekom / Groningen & Verviers.
Jaak Geebelen / Verviers.




Still Beautiful Live 2011

CD1
Hold The Sun
Deep In Borrowdale
Something Better
Forever Young
Ice
The Dark before The Dawn
The Last Climb
Questioning Eyes
CD2
Heroes Never Die
Distant Train
Answer The Question
Caught In A Fold
Nowhere To Hide
Go Well Diamond Heart
Passengers
First Thought
For All We Shared
Evergreen
And When The War Is Over…


You can order the new live cd;
Still Beautiful Live 2011
@ www.mostlyautumnrecords.com



NEWS:

Passengers re-mastered
We are happy to announce the return of the Passengers, newly re-mastered, album to our stock. “Why re-master” you may ask… well for various reasons we had to re-manufacture this album at a different pressing plant in the UK and after the sonic success we had in re-mastering all the songs on the Pass the clock triple album, we thought we may as well give Passengers the same treatment throughout, and it is improved. We also thought it would be nice to add three bonus live tracks from shows played in the winter of 2009 and some additional artwork to boot. More of our earlier albums may get the same treatment in time and some need to be made available again as the rights have now come back to Mostly Autumn Records. Available now at Mostly Autumn Records.

PLUS BONUS TRACKS
* Caught In a Fold - live
* Simple Ways - live
* Passengers - live




thatnightin
Pictures by Bert Treep
thatnightin
An interview with Bryan Josh about Heather, Olivia and more side projects:
at this spot.


Liam Davison will release his first solo album soon, here a teaser.


Heather Findlay leaves Mostly Autumn
Read more here.

The Leaminington Spa 02.04.10 gig was filmed by John Vis for a DVD recording.
pictures by Howard Rankin.
more pictures.
Pictures by Jorit van Bennekom.
Pictures by Rob Ligtenberg.

NEW:
Awesome photos by Roger Newport.





The new album for free: here!

Live pictures from Groningen by Bert Treep.



Music with heavy emotions, organic, powerful and atmospheric floydian spheres with a Celtic edge; songs about life. Influenced by Pink Floyd, Genesis, Fleedwoodmac, Fairport Convention, Deep Purple and the Lake District! I'm sure that the band will be hugely successful in the future.

Mostly Autumn's sound incorporates the uses of flute, low and penny whistles, violins and vocal harmonies - over a powerful band, existing of keyboards, two guitarists, bass, drums and lead-vocals by Heather and Bryan.



THE NEXT GENERATION OF MOSTLY AUTUMN AUDIO VISUAL ...

With the huge sweep of symphonic art rock music, a spectacular light show, innovative film projections and a highly theatrical stage show it’s no surprise Mostly Autumn are being widely hailed as the new Pink Floyd.

The band is touring in th eUK and The Lowlands, some of their shows will have a full thechnicol coloured gig with all the extra's you can get.

 

 

The band was formed in York and the inspiration was found in the beautiful English Lake District.
It started with the Expressions and The Early Years. Formed in 1984 by Bryan, Liam and Marc Atkinson they played gigs and wrote many songs together until 1990 when Bryan left the band. The group continued as Frontier with Liam taking over on lead guitar. In '91 they recorded a 5 track EP called BIG TALK at Faireview studios in Hull with Mr John Spence producing (Bryan came down for some of the recording and loved the studio and was impressed with Mr Spence.... the rest is history!)...

The line-upp in those early beginning was:

Bryan Josh - Founder member - Lead electric guitars, acoustic 6 + 12 strings, e bow, vocals, he played in a rock band called Expressions and some Pink Floyd cover bands. He was a guitar-teacher and he prefers the Fender Stratocaster just like Henk Marvin, Richie Blackmore and David Gilmour.
He likes Pink Floyd, The Alan Parsons Project, Maddy Priors "Arthur the King" and the early Genesis stuff and more...
Heather "lady Galadril" Findlay - Vocals, Bodhran, Tambourine, 6 + 12 string acoustic guitars. Vocals on Shed Seven on their album Let it ride. You can hear vocals on the track entitled In a hole on which she harmonises with their frontman Rick Witter. In April 1997 Heather was asked to join Mostly Autumn.
She likes Led Zepplin, the Beatles, Metallica, Fleedwoodmac and more 60- and 70-ies bands.
Iain Jennings - Keyboards, Synthesisers, Hammond Organ, trumpet, trombone and vocals, did some miscellaneous studies in Music,
Liam Davison - Electric guitars, 6 + 12 string acoustic guitars and vocals. Iain is now a full time lecturer in Popular Music at Hull College. Iain came to play for Mostly Autumn in 1997 when he stood in temporarily, and has been with them ever since.
Angela Goldthorpe - Flute, Low & High whistles, recorders and vocals. Angela first met Bryan and Mostly Autumn as their lighting engineer. Her musical influences a re All About Eve (see index on the left side) and Jethro Tull.
Bob Faulds - violin.

bryan heather Iain
liam angie bob

The bass and drums changed on every album. The new guys are (2001);
Andy Smith - Bass, he runs an lighting business with Angela, The Rolling Strones are one of his favourites and he's the oldest of this team!
Jonathan Blackmore - Drums, (no family of Richie), born in '81 (and great already), he likes enjoys surfing and extreme sports in his spare time.

andy jonathan
John Spence - who engineered and produced all of Mostly Autumns albums has said "They are the best band I've heard in years, "you just don't get albums like this anymore". John has worked with the likes of Beautiful South, John Parr, The Phoenix Horns (Phil Collins band), The Mission, Bill Nelson (Be-Bob Deluxe) and many more.

Bob Carruthers is as executive producer involved since 2002. He's an author, film producer (mostly documentaries about the war), fan of Uriah Heep, born in Scottland,

And in April 2004 they announced that Jonathan Blackmore leaves the band for personal reasons...
Andrew Jennings, brother of Iain, is the new man behind the drumkit. And as a fully trained classical percussionist Andrew will bring an impeccable musical pedigree to the band. The first performance by Mostly Autumn with Andrew Jennings on drums was at the Y Theatre Leicester on April 3rd.

andrew

 

The Albums, click on the titles for more info.
For All We Shared (1998)
The Spirit Of Autumn Past (1999)
The Last Bright Light (2001)
+ the single Prints in Stone.
The Story So Far DVD/ CD (2001)
Music Inspired By The Lord Of The Rings (2001)
Catch The Spirit - The Complete Anthology (2002)
Passengers (2003)
The Next Chapter DVD (2003)
Live at The Opera House DVD
Limited Edition Astoria DVD.
Storms over over still Water CD (2005)
Storms over London Town live cd (2006)
Heart full of Sky (2007)
Glass Shadow CD (2008)

A Different Sky (Official Promo Video).
Pass the Clock 3 geremasterd cd's/ best of cd (2009)
Live (2009) 2 albums!

Go Well-Diamond Heart (2010)!
To Heather.....
‘Through Valleys of Evergreens and Violets
We walked for a while,
We reached for the heart of the sun
And a forest of stars,
But down in the fields
I realised a dream
That they all shone from the back of your eyes’

Go well, friend of mine
Bryan Josh

thatnightin That Night in Leamington Spa (2010)(Farewell gig Heather Findlay!)

thatnightin Still Beautiful Live 2011

 

The band changed often, drummers went and new sat down the kit, even Liam, one of Bryans close friends left for a short while, Chris Johnson replaced him and Iain Jennings. The heart core was always Bryan, Heather, and Andy. When Angela became pregnant she decide to leave and Ann Marie Helder replaced her. Some people did know her of Karnataka and later from Panic Room.
In the meantime they had added a young backing vocalist, called Olivia Sparnnen, she would end up in Iain Jennings band, Breathing Space for a long time.
For some people the line-upp got a big crash when Heather Findlay annouced that she would leave (Jan 2010).

Nowadays (january 2010) the band is:

Bryan Josh - guitars and vocals (solo in Josh & Co),
Olivia Sparnenn - lead vocals, (Breathing Space) Liam Davison - guitars and backing vocals (also Breathing Space),
Andy Smith - bass,
Iain Jennings - keyboards and backing vocals (Breathing Space),
Ann-Marie Helder - flute, keyboards and backing vocals (Panic Room & Parade),
Gavin Griffiths - drums (Panic Room & Fish).


January 2010:
Heather Findlay left the band after 13 year, read more here.



Pictures by Jaak Geebelen, Nando & Eric de Bruijn.

 

Iain Jennings
Odin Dragonfly
Bryan Josh
Solo / Sessions
Mostly Autumn Page 2
for more news\



Go Well-Diamond Heart (review)!

live 2009
Heart Full of Sky Review
Live 2007/ '06 / LowLands!

Storms Over Still Water
Launch Party 4 June 05
Storms Over London Town
Interview with Heather Findlay Sound Samples
live-reviews and pics
Pictures of Bristol 17 March 05
013 live review
v-shows
cd-reviews
dvd at the Grand Opera House
Mostly Floyd DVD
lyrics
interview
sound samples passengers
Album-reviews by DPRP; see this Page.
An long inter view with Heather and Bryan,
by Jon Hitchliffe thanks Fireworks!
Some lyrics

Solo / Sessions
See Mostly Autumn Page 2
for more news and gosspis

Iain Jennings
Odin Dragonfly
Liam Davison
Bryan Josh

 

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Index SymfoSymfo Index.

 

Updated April 2010 by Nick

A Present

Mostly Autumn 14 April 2010
TV Limburg.

Evergreen.

The Rain Song.

 

For all who we've lost, where ever they are.
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