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Old Swan Band

In the early 1970s the pioneering folk band Oak disbanded, but the nucleus of that band went on to form the Old Swan Band, the name originating from music sessions held in the Old Swan pub in Cheltenham. They became key players in the so-called English Country Music Revival, championing tunes mainly from the English tradition, and influencing a whole generation of folk music performers. They played at barn dances and festivals throughout the seventies and eighties, undergoing a number of personnel changes, and still perform today under the snappier name "Old Swan".

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english country dance

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Jackdaw With Crowbar

In 1985 Jackdaw with Crowbar pioneered a technique of projecting several layers of 8mm film onto live musicians.
The set varied from post punk to dub to eastern jazz with influences like Captain Beefheart, Lee Perry, The Residents
and Wire. The films would sometimes lead the music or visa versa often mocking the politics of the day and distorting
reality whilst the music always ahead of the times treading unexplored territories with homemade instruments and
re purposed analogue technology. They toured this combination from Liepzig to Florence to Aushwitz to Amsterdam

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Frank Chickens

Frank Chickens were an Anglo-Japanese group based in London, performing their quirky brand of pop from 1982 to 2001. The founder members were Kazuko Hohki and Kazumi Taguchi. Taguchi was later replaced by Atsuko Kamura and then Chika Nakagawa and others in the 1990s. Their best known song was We Are Ninja (Not Geisha), which they continued to perform at every gig. According to Discogs, their last release was a remix 12" of the song, We Are Ninja (2000).

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