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Lost Pearls (Talking Elephant, 2004)
Is Justice Done / Bells Chime / Hard On You / Out On A Limb / Where You Been / Halfway House (Martin Vocal) / Halfway House (Claire Vocal) / Football And Boxing / John Sherry Jam / Too Much Monkey Business (Live) / Night Hawker / Sheriff Of Sherwood (Demo)
Producer: Martin Turner
Personnel: Wishbone Ash MkII + MkIV
A selection of previously unreleased material from 1978 (with one track from 1982). Reissued by Eagle, 2009.
Backbones (Talking Elephant, 2004)
Personnel: Wishbone Ash Mk VIII & X
No point in listing everything on this one. A 3CD compilation with two discs drawn from material on the band’s previous HTD and Talking Elephant releases—Illuminations, Bona Fide, Tracks, Tracks 2, Lost Pearls—but adding a third disc featuring an audio interview with Andy and three exclusive live acoustic tracks from 2002: ‘Strange Affair’, ‘The King Will Come’, and ‘Hard Times’.
Tracks 3 (Talking Elephant, 2007)
Surfing A Slow Wave / Ancient Remedy / The Ring / Healing Ground / Changing Tracks / Living Proof / Rock’n Roll Widow / Ballad Of The Beacon / Lullaby / Candlelight / Wings Of Desire / Sorrell / Capture The Moment / Comfort Zone / Why Don’t We / Baby What You Want Me To Do / Clousseau / The Raven / Valediction / Errors Of My Way / Wait Out The Storm / Dreams Outta Dust / Eyes Wide Open / Faith Hope And Love / Persephone / Cell Of Fame / Phoenix / Baby Don’t Mind / Hard On You / Ship Of Dreams / Come In From The Rain / High Heeled Sneakers / Rock Me Baby / Jail Bait / Another Time / Motherless Child / Hard Times / Blind Eye / East Coast Boogie / Loose Change / Warrior (Orchestral Arrangement)
Personnel: Various
A 3CD third compilation of previously unreleased live tracks. Reissued as Live History: Tracks Vol.3 by Happinet/Ward in Japan, 2009.
First Light (Talking Elephant, 2007)
Lady Whiskey / Roads Of Day To Day / Blind Eye / Joshua / Queen Of Torture / Alone / Handy / Errors Of My Way
Personnel: Wishbone Ash Mk I
Taken from the sole surviving acetate—bought at auction by Ash fan Dr John and generously made available for release—of a pre-first album studio session, this is the earliest known recording of Wishbone Ash. Reissued in 2014.
Selected DVD Releases
30th Anniversary Concert (Eagle, 2001)
Real Guitars Have Wings / The King Will Come / F.U.B.B. / Ballad Of The Beacon / Errors Of My Way / No Joke / Strange Affair / Living Proof / Blowin’ Free / Phoenix / Come In From The Rain / Hard Times
Personnel: Wishbone Ash IX + guests
Recorded in London, 2000, with Laurie Wisefield and Claire Hamill guesting. Released in the US by Eagle as 30th Anniversary Concert—Live Dates 3.
Phoenix Rising (Classic Rock Legends, 2004)
Vas Dis / The King Will Come / Blowin’ Free / Phoenix / Warrior / Cosmic Jazz / Living Proof / Jail Bait / Wings Of Desire / Why Don’t We / Ballad Of The Beacon / Real Guitars Have Wings / Blowin’ Free / Bad Weather Blues / Where Were You Tomrorrow?
Personnel: Wishbone Ash Mk I, Mk I (reunion) & Mk IX
Vintage performances from The Old Grey Whistle Test (BBC) 1971, ABC TV (Australia) 1972, Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert (USA) 1973, Bristol 1989, and London 2003.
Live At The Spirit Of 66 (2006)
Outward Bound / Warrior / The King Will Come / Healing Ground / Underground / Why Don’t We / Persephone / Leaf & Stream / Dreams Outta Dust / Tales Of The Wise / Changing Tracks / Almighty Blues / Living Proof / Phoenix / Surfin’ A Slow Wave / Jail Bait
Personnel: Wishbone MK XI
Recorded in Belgium, 2006.
Live In Hamburg (BHM Productions, 2007)
Eyes Wide Open / Healing Ground / The King Will Come / The Warrior / Why Don’t We / Dreams Outta Dust / The Raven / Sometime World / Valediction / Sorrell / Capture The Moment / Tales Of The Wise / Almighty Blues / Standing In The Rain / Phoenix / Blind Eye / Ballad Of The Beacon / Blowin’ Free
Personnel: Wishbone Mk XI
Recorded in Hamburg, 2007.
40th Anniversary Concert: Live In London (C&B Productions, 2010)
Blind Eye / Runaway / Right Or Wrong / Growing Up / Sometime World / Rainstorm / The Way Of The World / Everybody Needs A Friend / The King Will Come / Throw Down The Sword / Cell Of Fame / Almighty Blues / Faith, Hope And Love / Engine Overheat / Phoenix / Jail Bait / Blowin’ Free + Bonus: Road Movie
Personnel: Wishbone Ash MK XII
Recorded in London, 2010, with guests Mark Birch, Ben Granfelt, and Mervyn Spence.
This Is Wishbone Ash (A Rockumentary) (Wishbone Ash/Glasgow Production, 2010)
Documentary including six full live performances.
APPENDIX 3
WISHBONE ASH LIVE DATES 1969–2015
The 1969–2001 dates were very kindly provided by Simon Atkinson, with additional information from Big Harry, and are presented here with only a few editorial tweaks. Wishbone Ash performed many more dates in this period but these are all that can be currently retrieved, from numerous print sources. The 2002–15 dates were sourced from the official band website and represent virtually every show Wishbone Ash performed in this period.
All dates UK unless otherwise stated
1969
November
10 Civic Hall, Dunstable (with Aynsley Dunbar’s Retaliation)
18 Tiffany’s, Exeter
December
? Klooks Kleek, London
20 Eel Pie Island, London (with Audience)
1970
January
14 Klooks Kleek, London (with Hard Meat)
February
3 Northern Poly, London (with Edgar Broughton Band, Steamhammer, Sam Apple Pie, and Forest)
6 Assembly Rooms, Wood Green
12 Polytechnic Kingston (with Caravan and Rare Bird)
19 The Temple, London (with Mighty Baby and The Grope)
20 Bedford College, London (with Heavy Jelly and May Blitz)
March
13 Connaught Hall, London
14 University College, London (with Rupert’s People)
19 St Martin’s School of Art, London (with Boris and Flesh)
21 The Swan, Yardley
23 Speakeasy, London
April
2–3 Le Bilbouquet, Paris, France
4–5 The Golf Druot, Paris, France
6–7 Le Rock ‘n Roll Circus, Paris, France
12 Youth Club, Bletchley (supporting Van der Graaf Generator)
13 College of Agriculture, Leeds
16 Imperial College, London
17 Trent Park College, Barnet
18 The Cavern, Liverpool
29 Victoria Hall, Chelmsford
May
2 University College, London (with Heavy Jelly)
8 Marquee, London (with Slade)
9 Imperial College, London (with T.Rex, Taste, Smile, and Kevin Ayers)
14 Country Club, London (with Rupert’s People)
15 College of Education, Coventry
16 Tofts, Folkestone
18 Civic Hall, Dunstable (with Deep Purple)
19 Speakeasy, London
23 Twerton Park, Bath City Pop Festival
June
? Guildford College
? Roundhouse, London
? Henry Blues House, Newcastle
4 Marquee, London (with Writing On The Wall)
? Dorchester Hotel, London
? Country Club, London
15 Marquee, London
20 Hull University (with Taste)
July
? Old Granary, Bristol
? Farx Club, Southall
7 Ronnie Scott’s, London
25 Civic Hall, Dunstable (with Aquila, supporting The Who)
26 Brewery Tap, London
31 Town Hall, Torquay
August
1 Town Hall, Torquay (with Atomic Rooster, Adolphus Rebirth)
6 BBC Paris Studios,
London (Sounds Of The 70s)
8 Starlight Rooms, Boston
9 National Jazz & Blues Festival, Plumpton
14 Fishmonger’s Arms, Wood Green
16 Roundhouse, London (with Writing On The Wall, Heads Hands & Feet, Trader Horne, Stoics, Supertramp)
21 Lyceum, London (with Hardin & York, Keef Hartley Band)
22 Builders Exchange, Huddersfield
23 Edinburgh Festival
25 City Hall, St Albans
September
14 Cook’s Ferry Inn, Edmonton
16 Marquee, London
24 Town Hall, Watford (with ELP)
25 City Hall, St Albans (with Farm, ELP)
26 Starlight Rooms, Boston (with Farm, ELP)
27 De Montfort Hall, Leicester (with Farm, ELP)
28 Guildhall, Portsmouth (with Farm, ELP) or Nite Cat, Clacton
October
1 Town Hall, Leeds (with Farm, ELP)
or Hornsey Town Hall (with Juicy Lucy)
4 City Hall, Newcastle (with Farm, supporting ELP)
7 The Dome, Brighton (with Farm, ELP)
8 Lancaster University (with Free)
9 Dunhelm House, Durham (with Free)
10 Polytechnic, Kingston
16 Floral Hall, Hornsey (with Van der Graaf Generator and Mandrake)
19 Ronnie Scotts, London
24 University College, London (with Blodwyn Pig)
29 Acid Palace, Uxbridge (with Mogul Thrash)
30 Rag Ball, University of Surrey (with Keef Hartley Band, Yes, Jimmy James, New Temperance Seven)
31 Starlight Ballroom, Boston (with Van der Graaf Generator)
November
7 Imperial College, London (with Brinsley Schwartz)
19 Paris Theatre, London (John Peel Sunday Concert, with The Faces)
30 Winter Gardens, Cleethorpes (with Stray and Mogul Thrash)
December
2 BBC TV Studios, London (Disco 2)
? 1932, Windsor
? Cooks Ferry Inn, Edmonton
? Railway Tavern, London
10 Locarno Mecca, Blackpool (with Barclay James Harvest)
1971
January
1 BBC Maida Vale, London (Sounds Of The 70s)
8 Sisters, Tottenham
9 Van Dyke Club, Plymouth
16 Dumfries University
17 Eel Pie Island, London
18 Civic Hall, Dunstable
22 Thames Polytechnic (with If)
27 Albert Hall, Nottingham (with Mott The Hoople, Red Dirt, Nothineverhappens)
28 City Hall, Newcastle (with Mott The Hoople, Red Dirt, Nothineverhappens)
29 City Hall, Sheffield (with Mott The Hoople, Red Dirt, Nothineverhappens)
30 City Hall, Hull (with Mott The Hoople, Red Dirt, Nothineverhappens)
31 St George’s Hall, Bradford (with Mott The Hoople, Red Dirt, Nothineverhappens)
February
2 Marquee, London (with Gordon Giltrap)
5 Il Rondo Ballroom, Leicester
7 Youth Club, Bletchley
12 Co-op Hall, St Albans
19 Town Hall, West Bromwich (with Tea & Symphony and Egg)
20 Shenstone College, Worcester
21 Roundhouse, London
25 Austin, USA (with The Guess Who)
26 Dallas, USA
27 Houston, USA
March
5–7 Whisky A Go Go, Los Angeles, USA (with Ned)
9 San Diego, USA
11 Fillmore West, San Francisco, USA (with Siegel-Schwall)
12–14 Fillmore West, San Francisco, USA (with Poco and Siegel-Schwall)
19 Eastown Theatre, Detroit, USA (with Eric Burdon, War, Badfinger)
20 Eastown Theatre, Detroit, USA (with Mountain and McKendree Spring)
April
3 The Warehouse, New Orleans, USA (with The James Gang; The Allman Brothers?)
? Detroit, USA
? Chicago, USA
8–10 Fillmore West, San Francisco, USA (with Seatrain and Elton John)
12 Virginia Theatre, Alexandria, USA
16 Cheltenham Town Hall
17 Country Club, Kirklevington
18 Boat Club, Nottingham
21 BBC Maida Vale, London (Sounds Of The 70s)
23 Nag’s Head, Wollaston
24 Dudley Technical College
25 Lyceum, London (with Wooden Horse and Thin Lizzy)
27 Resurrection, Hitchin
28 Big Brother, Hertford
29 Westbridge College, Nottingham
30 Penthouse Club, Scarborough
May
1 Hull University
2 Bowes Lyon House, Stevenage
4 Marquee, London (with Stackridge)
5 Tooting Castle, London
6 Swansea University
7 Polytechnic, Lancaster
8 Van Dyke Club, Plymouth
14 Red Lion, Leytonstone
15 University College, London
21 Westfield College, London
June
5 The Phonograph, Finchley
All dates to June 22 with Stackridge and Renaissance unless otherwise noted.
7 Town Hall, Plymouth
9 Flamingo, Redruth
10 Colston Hall, Bristol
11 Guildhall, Southampton
12 Town Hall, Oxford
14 De Montfort, Leicester
15 St George’s Hall, Bradford
16 Free Trade Hall, Manchester (with Stackridge and Mogul Thrash)
17 University, Warwick
18 Town Hall, Birmingham
19 City Hall, Newcastle
20 City Hall, Hull
22 City Hall, Sheffield (with Stackridge and Mogul Thrash)
23 Town Hall, Leeds
24 Albert Hall, Nottingham
25 Caird Hall, Dundee
26 Stirling University
27 Caley Cinema, Edinburgh
July
5 BBC Maida Vale, London (Top Gear)
17 Pioneer Club, St Albans
26 Reading Festival
August
All dates to August 16 with The Who
12 Public Hall, Cleveland, USA
13 Hara Arena, Dayton, USA
14 Cobo Arena, Detroit, USA
15 Sports Centre, Minneapolis, USA
16 Mississippi River Festival, Edwardsville, USA
September
3 Satsop River Festival, Seattle, USA (with Steve Miller, Flash Cadillac, Eric Burdon, War)
5 Austin, USA
? Alexandria, USA
? Performing Arts Centre, Saratoga Springs, USA (with Love and Humble Pie)
24 The Hove, Bournemouth
25 Slough College
26 Greyhound, Croydon
28 Osborne Hotel, Clacton
October
1 Polytechnic, Bristol
2 Roundhouse, Dagenham
3 Lyceum, London (with Renaissance, Burnt Oak, Armada)
5 Town Hall, Cheltenham (with Phillip Goodhand-Tait)
6 Patti Ballroom, Swansea
8 Mayfair, Newcastle
9 Sheffield University
10 Jazz Festival, Redcar
12 BBC TV Studios, London (Old Grey Whistle Test)
15 Chez, Leightonstone
16 Polytechnic, Isleworth (with Keith Christmas)
18 BBC Kensington House, London (Sounds Of The 70s)
24 Empire Theatre, Sunderland
28 Alsager College
29 Bath University or Technical College Ball at the Pavilion (with Stray and Edgar)
30 College of Technology, Watford (with Renaissance)
31 Starlight Ballroom, Boston (with Van der Graaf Generator)
November
12–13 Rainbow, London (with Gordon Haskell and Mountain)
18 Kinetic Circus, Birmingham
19 St Peters, York University
/> 21 Caley Picture House, Edinburgh (with Glencoe—60p)
26 Stockport College (with In Crust)
27 Spa Hall, Bridlington
30 Southampton University
December
1 Lyceum, London (with Renaissance and Phillip Goodhand-Tait)
4 Technical College, Waltham Forest (with Camel)
31 Marquee, London
1972
January
14 Subscription Room, Stroud (with Renaissance)
15 University College, London (with Glencoe)
26 Civic Hall, Dunstable
27 De Montfort Hall, Leicester
28 Town Hall, Birmingham
29 Colston Hall, Bristol
31 Exeter University (with Glencoe)
February
5 Free Trade Hall, Manchester
6 Greyhound, Croydon (with Trapeze)
7 Oxford Polytechnic
8 Town Hall, Watford
9 Civic Hall, Guildford
10 City Hall, Sheffield
11 Town Hall, Leeds
12 City Hall, Newcastle
13 Caley Cinema, Edinburgh
14 City Hall, Glasgow
16 Guildhall, Southampton
17 Essex University
18 The Dome, Brighton
19 Guildhall, Portsmouth
20 Winter Gardens, Bournemouth
March
23 Schwabingerau, Munich, Germany
April
? Camden Festival
4 Kinetic, Kenilworth (with The Groundhogs)
13 Central Hall, Chatham (with Cat Iron)
14 Locarno, Sunderland
15 Sports Centre, Bracknell (with Glencoe)
16 King George’s Hall, Blackburn (with Cat Iron)
17 Top Rank, Swansea
18 BBC Maida Vale, London (Top Gear)
19 City Hall, Salisbury (with Cat Iron)
20 Winter Gardens, Malvern
22 City Hall, St Albans (with Glencoe)
30 Camden Festival, Roundhouse, London (with Flash, Linda Lewis and Hookfoot)
May
5 Bickershaw Festival, Wigan
10 BBC Maida Vale, London (Sounds Of The 70s)
12 ? University
14 Locarno, Bristol
21 Germersheim Festival (with Humble Pie and Atomic Rooster)
25 Paris Theatre, London (In Concert taping)
27 Great Western Festival, Lincoln
31 BBC Aeolian Hall, London (Sounds Of The 70s)
June
10 Will Rogers Coliseum, Fort Worth, USA (with Jo Jo Gunne)
16 The Warehouse, New Orleans, USA (with ZZ Top and The Uncle Jam Band)
19 St Louis, USA
? Houston, USA (with Jo Jo Gunne)
? Memorial Stadium, Charlotte, USA (with Uriah Heep)
July
19 Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, USA (with Poco and The Kinks)