Judy Dyble - official website
Update :18th FEBRUARY 2010
2010!!! Good grief.. where did last year go?
Well I’ll tell you. 3 very special things happened.
The first was that my beautiful grand-daughter Freya was born in May..
The second thing was that I performed with Fairport at the Barbican in July. A sell-out concert based around the first five Fairport albums and part of the Witchseason Weekend Concerts. I had the wonderful task of introducing the first lineup with whom I sang and played autoharp on several songs, then bowed out gracefully as the lineups changed and sang from the other albums, culminating in a magnificent Meet On The Ledge..
The recorder that I played at the Barbican was signed by all the surviving members of the first lineup and it was then auctioned on Ebay and raised £210 which was then donated to Greyhound Lifeline, from whom I adopted my latest ancient greyhounds Whizzy and Flower (RIP)
And the third thing was the release of Talking With Strangers in August. We held a launch gig at the legendary 100 Club in London t play most of the album live.. Many thanks to Alistair, Tim, Simon, Mark, ,Laurie and Rachel who played for me so beautifully and made it a joy instead of the terror it might have been.
Thanks also to Sand Snowman, David Hughes and Tim Bowness and friends who also played their very different musics.
There were many wonderful reviews of the album from the BBC Music website, Mail on Sunday, Record Collector, Classic Rock Presents Prog, Oxford Times Limited Edition Spiral Earth, Netrhythms, Progfiles and many more. I gave interviews to many of the local BBC radio stations, including Radio’s Oxford, Manchester, Kent and Bristol as well as the US internet radio Prog’opolis who created a three hour programme around my life and music. My head is now very large.
The vinyl version of TWS has been released by Tonefloat. It is a limited edition of 500 and each one has a signed numbered postcard inside with the words of the original Harpsong and a picture of me and my harp.
The album has been selling very well and has now been repressed –sorry re-pressed with the new artwork by the wonderful Jackie Morris . There’s a bit of her work from the inlay at the top of the page. Isn’t it lovely? Her website is www.jackiemorris.com - go and have a look..
HMV gave me my own rack pack in nearly all their stores and had TWS in their Best of 2009 specialist Music stand
TWS will be released in Scandinavia by the Norwegian record company, Termo Records, on the 1st March 2010.
It will have a bonus track on it –‘Fragile’ and I will be going over there to promote it with Tim and Alistair, by appearing on two of Norway’s top TV and one of it’s top radio programmes plus a lot of nattering with magazines and journalists and all that lovely malarkey.
And TWS will be released in the US, France and Japan very shortly. Yippee!
What else? Ah yes Trader Horne. We will be releasing the Morning Way vinyl album this year. It will be a faithful reproduction of the original and will have vinyl 7” copies of the two Trader Horne singles included, again they will be faithful reproductions of the originals
And I have promised that I will do a one-off reunion Trader Horne gig with Jack McAuley this year. I must be bonkers..as well as one or two live JD performances this year. More news later when they are confirmed.
I am currently working on new material with Alistair and Tim, and on a wonderful project with Markus Reuter and Lee Fletcher. And I have contributed to recordings with Kings Cross, Sand Snowman and I will be writing and singing some music for a small project with some of Jackie Morris’s work.
All in all, apart from things like getting snowed in and on and losing another of my lovely greyhounds to old age..oh and picking up my bus pass (eek!) it’s been an extraordinary year and 2010 looks as if it’s about to go the same way.
I promise to keep my website more up to date in future, but you can always find me on www.myspace.com/judydyble and on Facebook , and of course on my blog thing http://blog.judydyble.com/
Right then. Toodle pip for now xxx
News: 20th June 2009
Well, after 18 months in the making, I am delighted to announce that the new album 'Talking With Strangers' has a UK release date of August 10th 2009.Co written with Tim Bowness (No-man) and Alistair Murphy (Cromer Museum) it features contributions from Robert Fripp, Ian MacDonald, Simon Nicol, Pat Mastelotto, Celia Humphris, Jacquie McShee, Julianne Regan and John Gillies, along with a supporting cast of many other talented musicians.
Limited numbered signed cd copies are available through my myspace site, and vinyl pre orders can now be placed by emailing Charles at Tonefloat info@crazy-diamond.nl.
Very soon I will have a new and updated site here, which will feature all kinds of news and information about the recording of the album, samplers, unseen photographs, and lots of other interesting stuff. Until then, feel free to keep up to date over at the myspace site - www.myspace.com/judydyble.
Exciting isn't it!
Jude.
News: 9th January 2008
I hope that you’ve all had a fantastic 2007 and I wish you all a Sparkling and Splendid 2008.Apologies for not updating very regularly but one thing I would like to say is that I do read all the comments in the guest book and that you are all very kind. If you have any specific questions that you think I can answer please email me through the contact link and I’ll try my best. I’m not telling you my pin number though!
Right then. This is all getting to be very exciting now. The Conspirators/Judy Dyble single is now finished and is sounding wonderful. It’s a double A side and a B side. (Yes, it’s triangular but magically it will fit any CD player) and it will be released on 3rd March 2008 as a download and as a proper CD
There will be more details soon about the release, but you just wait till you hear about the cover!
I share lead vocals with the lovely and talented Genevieve Parker on ‘One Sure Thing’ and I provide backing vocals on 'Take Me To your Leader’. ‘Connected’ is the Conspirators only, and is equally fab!
In case you were wondering, ‘One Sure Thing’ is the same song that I sang all those years ago on the first Fairport Convention album when we were young and beginning and it is a real delight to be re-visiting it again with these talented young musicians from North Yorkshire.
There are short tasterettes of each track for you to listen to:
‘One Sure Thing’
'Take Me To your Leader'
‘Connected’
I hope you like them!
News Update:
I have just been told that the Conspirators/Judy Dyble single will also be available as a limited vinyl edition, as well as CD and download.
500 will be pressed and they will be signed by the band and me.
If you are interested in pre-ordering a vinyl copy please contact Jon at Transcend Records
News: 11th October 2007
Helloee ……and here is the latest news….Firstly, and this is very exciting for me, I shall be collaborating with a brilliant new young band, the Conspirators. We go into the studio at the end of October to record a double A- side and a single B-side single (no, I have no idea how that works but that’s what it is) for physical and download release in January 2008.
The songs we will be recording are a new version of ‘One Sure Thing’ all modern and updated and with the extra verse that was left out of Fairport’s version. This will be equal lead vocals between myself and Genevieve Parker, she of the fantastic voice and beautiful hair (and fellow greyhound adorer).
The second A side will be probably ‘Funny’ written by John Gillies, guitarist of the band, with Genevieve singing lead and backing vocals from me.
And the B side will be another Conspirators song yet to be decided, but just them playing.
I haven’t yet met the rest of the band, Darren Banner (lead guitar), Mike Cinnamond (bass) and Laura Goodacre (drums) but I’m sure they’re all lovely. They’re a Yorkshire based band and their website and myspace are here where you can hear their music.
www.theconspirators.co.uk/
and www.myspace.com/theconspiratorsuk
You may have noticed (or possibly not!) that there is news of a 2-CD Anthology of my stuff called ‘Judy Dyble - Lost Voice of Folk’ appearing all over the internet, due at the end of October.
I am not absolutely sure what is happening with this. It is ‘in the pipeline’ but has got rather muddled with the takeover of Sanctuary Records, by Universal Records. So I wait and see …. Maybe next year?
Copies of Spindle and the Whorl LP are still available from Burning Shed,(see below) but they are selling quickly. There are less than 50 left…..
http://www.burningshed.com/store/singersongwriter/
Look here – I’m a verb …
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Dyble
I’m also a reluctant prog reviewer
http://www.theprogfiles.com/index.php
http://woodgreenbookshop.blogspot.com/
Right. That’s enough soppy stuff.
News: 11th May 2007
It's been 40 years since the beginning of ole Fairport and so this year, as it's an anniversary year, the lineup at the festival is amazing. And I shall be in there somewhere. Tickets are selling fast so go here http://www.fairportconvention.com and have a look to see what's going on, and who's playing.News: 10th May 2007
Rockwife makes the most splendid hats and she's showing them at the Great Yorkshire Showground http://www.greatyorkshireshow.comHarrogate on the 10th,11th and 12th July 2007.
She'll be showing four times daily in the Fashion Pavilion and if I could wear hats I'd wear several of hers. All at once! her website is http://www.rockwife.com/inspirations.html and she has a myspace here http://www.myspace.com/rockwife_couture
