MOSTLY AUTUMN:
Has kicked of their special X-mas tour with a grande set and show at the Grand Opera House in York, Saturday 5th December.
The original vocalist Heidi Widdop supported the band at the York Grand Opera House gig. Heidi left the band shortly before the first album "For All We Shared" was recorded back in 1998 but never lost her passion for music and live performance, having been involved in a number of bands/solo projects over the years.
Heidi's latest musical venture is "The Secrets" - a two-piece, part acoustic band which also features the rather excellent Martin Ledger on guitar/vocals. The Secrets performed a number of Floyd tracks and other covers - time permitting of course - and Heidi will once again be taking the lead vocal as well as playing guitar and bass so please wander in from the bar area and check them out!
They released 2 live albums, Part 1 and a Part 2. The tracklist is indeed a best of and contains stunning new versions with rare arragements.
At first we were looking down the route of just doing one album and cramming in as many of the highlights as we could, but after speaking to so many of you the general consensus was that we should put the whole set out in its entirety, as two full blown albums exactly as these sets were performed - so this what we are doing.
We seriously believe that we have here the definitive versions of many of our songs; they have just evolved beautifully with the strength of our current line-up. It’s very live and very powerful so make sure you crank it up.
Bryan Josh
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Check them out at www.mostly-autumn.com.
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.
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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:
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.
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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.
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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.
The Albums, click on the titles for more info.
 | For All We Shared (1998) |
 | The Spirit Of Autumn Past (1999) |
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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) |
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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) |
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A Different Sky (Official Promo Video). | |
 | Pass the Clock 3 geremasterd cd's/ best of cd (2009) |
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| Live (2009) 2 albums! |
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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 |
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:
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),
January 2010:
Heather Findlay left the band after 13 year, read more here.
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Pictures by Jaak Geebelen, Nando & Eric de Bruijn.
Tourdates 2009:
NEW:
Dutch X-mas Photos 2009
+ more links
New: photo's and reviews of the Dutch Spring tour 2009 at this spot.
05.12.2009 Grand Opera House York
11.12.2009 Islington Academy London Christmas Show
12.12.2009 M Club High Street Crewe Christmas Show
13.12.2009 JOSH & CO LTD Robin 2 Bilston Wolverhampton VERY SPECIAL GUESTS 'PARADE'
14.12.2009 The Brook Portswood Southampton
17 december Perron55 Venlo,
18 december De Boerderij Zoetermeer,
19 december Hedon Zwolle,
20 december The Spirit of 66 Verviers.
More Pictures and live reviews.
Dutch April tour 2010:
140410 Bibelot Dordrecht www.bibelot.net
150410 De Kade Zaandam www.kade.nl
160410 Auw Kerk Bunde (Maastricht) www.roosterrockpromotion.com
170410 Metropool Hengelo www.metropoll.nl
180410 W2 Den Bosch www.w2.nl
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
Bryan Josh
Symfo Index.