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The Great Park

Seeking gigs anywhere, I am still restless...

About Me

Woodland Recordings compilation.
DO NOT BUY if you have the previous sold out releases.
• 12 tracks - includes The Burning Of Two, Paper Birds, Pure Black Coal, I Do Wrong, etc.
• £8 including postage anywhere in the world.
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WR001 Split EP
• 11 songs from The Diamond Family Archive and The Great Park.
• 2 cds in individual hand stamped sleeves.
• Just 300 handmade numbered copies.
• Includes lyric and chord booklet and unique postcards.
• Includes 'Paper Birds'

£8 including postage anywhere in the world
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Woodland Recordings website here

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Member Since: 10/12/2005
Band Website: thegreatpark.co.uk
Band Members: Stephen Burch.
With help on the recordings and occasional live shows by Laurence Collyer (The Diamond Family Archive), Sam Collins (Mid-West Blues), Lawry Joseph Tilbury (Mortis Tobias, Birdengine), Daniel Michael Clark (Clara Kindle), Lewis Shaw (The Steam Age), Vicky Steer (Blanket), Jane Bartholomew (Jane Bartholomew) and other fine folk.
Influences: I like all this - the film The Belstone Fox, the Dire Straits song Telegraph Road, the books of Cormac McCarthy, the 1954 recording of Under Milk Wood, the series Deadwood, music made by Liz Green, Birdengine, The Diamond Family Archive, Mid-West Blues, -a+M, Bob Dylan, Kristin McClement, Leonard Cohen, Guy Dale, Sons Of Noel And Adrian, Clara Kindle, Lambchop, Alela Diane, Men Diamler, Blanket, Gerry Mitchell, Tristan Brusch, oh loads more. I might come back to this bit.
Record Label: Woodland Recordings
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Tour of Germany part seven.

Coke and a cigarette kicks my arse.Today was always our day off but Dennis had arranged something for me, knowing I've been saying all along that I'd always prefer to play anywhere than not at all.So ...
Posted by The Great Park on Wed, 07 May 2008 03:53:00 PST

Tour of Germany part six

Cologne was a great night - rubbish cold and damp weather so we killed time by pretending to shop for hats. Got through 2 or 3 hours, no hats, but good Italian food and beer and the walking around the...
Posted by The Great Park on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:56:00 PST

Tour of Germany part five

Too late for this now, but here's a song from the lovely little back room at Elektra in Cologne from last night. We decided against a PA so you get wobbly singing in the room without reverb and all th...
Posted by The Great Park on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:13:00 PST

Tour of Germany part four

Sitting in super bright sunshine outside Sudstadt cafe in Munchen, we're a little early. Sounds of church bells from Sunday services up the road, T planning the drive tomorrow to Cologne. A fair dista...
Posted by The Great Park on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:43:00 PST

Tour of Germany part three

In Magedeburg, waiting in car whilst Tristan walks to train station to get directions. First impressions are of the most East German town I've seen so far - flat, desolate blocks of civic buildings, a...
Posted by The Great Park on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:39:00 PST

Tour of Germany part two

More tapping in the passenger seat whilst Tristan sits back and cruises down the autobahn. Heading to Hamburg after 2 days in Berlin, weird muddy sunshine, but very hot, cold blower on my bare feet he...
Posted by The Great Park on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:44:00 PST

Recent show to download for free

12/04/08 - Komedia, Brighton. New song, bit wobbly playing - but with the ace Sam Collins playing electric guitar. Available to download for free now from http://www.woodlandrecordings.com/Again, righ...
Posted by The Great Park on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:19:00 PST

Tour of Germany part one

Random bits of text written from passenger seat - it might not get very interesting so you may want to skip all this.Driving to Bremen from Tueblingum - Tristan thinks we've got about 4 hours until we...
Posted by The Great Park on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:53:00 PST

Pure Black Coal

Not a lot to say here except that the version of ’Pure Black Coal’ from the Fire Escape ep is available to download from the profile page, and also from the Woodland Recordings website - h...
Posted by The Great Park on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 07:46:00 PST

New ep

Over the last few weeks I’ve been recording things in different rooms around Brighton with Mr Collins and now I’ve put some of them together for a new ep which I’ve imaginatively tit...
Posted by The Great Park on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:48:00 PST