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Grayshott Folk Club presents Home Service. The mighty award-winning Home Service return with their sensational new line-up, featuring John Kirkpatrick's resounding vocals, a roaring 4-piece brass section and the searing guitar of Graeme Taylor.
Home Service are in the same league as Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span and The Albion Band. They are considered by many as the greatest ever folk-rock ensemble and were formed in the early 1980s by a core of musicians who had been part of the influential line-up of the Albion Band in the previous decade (John Tams, Graeme Taylor, Bill Caddick, Howard Evans, Michael Gregory and Roger Williams). The outfit released a single and three albums; by the time of the last of these, "Alright Jack", the band was at the height of its powers, and live Home Service shows had attained genuine legendary status, but sadly they split in 1987.
The reunion of this classic band came about after the discovery, in early 2011, of some previously unheard live recordings made by their former sound engineer on a couple of cassette tapes that have languished in the back of his wardrobe for the last 25 years. These recordings, made at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 1986, exhibit a power and commitment that was never fully captured in the studio, so a live album release immediately became inevitable. With an album to promote, live performances were the obvious next step. So, with everyone truly inspired by the might of these recorded performances, Home Service was very much back in business, winning the BBC Radio 2 award for Best Folk/Roots Live Act in 2012.
Their incandescent, incendiary, and absolutely magnificent performance is totally unmissable: no argument.
Bof! good friends from Hadleigh Suffolk, return to sing/play a delightful selection of traditional French Folk songs and Dance tunes on a range of unusual and interesting instruments. They charmed Grayshott Folk Club most recently when they supported Ireland's top Folk band Altan back in April 2016.
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