Home Service
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- Home Service from the series "A Little Night Music" broadcast by the BBC in 1981 featuring John Tams, Bill Caddick, Graeme Taylor, Michael Gregory, Malcolm Bennett, Howard Evans, and Roger Williams
Set List
1) Napoleon's Grand Marche
2) Walk My Way
3) The Grenadier
4) The Blue Eyed Stranger
5) The Barmaids Song
6) Where are The Bluebirds?
7) Galliard / Bramsley
8) Doing The Inglish
9) Chaconne - Hudba
Remember watching this on TV in 1981, not long after seeing Home Service for my first time at the Cambridge Folk Festival. MAGNIFICENT! And - sadly - "Walk My Way" has as much relevance now, nearly 40 years later, as it did in those dark days of Thatcher.
what a wonderful thing to hear/see. i'm a hillbilly yank who have followed fairport, steeleye, albion dance band and all the spinoffs and solos since late 60's...somehow these guys eluded me...just wonderful...thanx!
They almost eluded me as well, except I had an unidentified audio cassette of this show that someone gave me which I never tired of listening to. I didn't realise it was a TV show until I found this video copy on a file sharing site. I was so pleased they re-formed after the discovery of the 1986 Cambridge Folk Festival tapes in 2011. I was so looking forward to seeing them live this year both at a local folk club and at Cropredy, lets hope we can see them next year as they are every bit as good today as this recording would indicate
how have I missed this....????>..absolutely fantastic.....happened upon this by chance,......brilliant artifact / piece of archive,....
Blimey what a find!
Awesome band.
Great that this has also been saved and posted. I had it myself on VHS, Lord knows where now. I booked them for the "Treetops" in Epping, Essex, UK in about 85, with the much fun folk rock band "Arkright's Ferret" supporting.
It was Aardvark & No money, the later offshoot
So good to see this again. I saw this on the TV in 81 and only discovered them again when I found out a great friend and band-mate had a copy of Alright Jack stashed away in his collection.
I saw this and video recorded it and the Richard & Linda Thompson Little Night Music - Nocturnes broadcast which is on CZcams, saw them at Cambridge Folk Festival and Cropredy Festival several times and booked them in Epping, Essex with folk rock band Aardvark & no Money at the Treetops in 1988. Also put on Maddy Prior & Rick Kemp + Figgy Duff. Cropredy is next week. My 41st year of that festival.
They all look so young! Mind you, it was nearly forty years ago ... and they're still brilliant!
RIP Howard Evans and Bill Caddick ....
I recorded this on the Fergusson Videostar at the age of 20 then booked them in Epping 5 years later. Was looking forward to seeing them at Cropredy. They are far better now
Yep that was going to be a highlight for me this year, and we were booked to see them at St Edith's folk club on July 17th with Richard Thompson at the Gulbenkian in Canterbury on July 18th what a year it was going to be :-)
Interestingly I didn't record the video for this, I always has an audio cassette of the programme without realising it was in the same series as the Richard and Linda Thompson show, but then I found the video on a file sharing site and realised what I'd been missing all these years
Thank you for discovering and preserving this gem.
I watched this programme back in 1981, the Home Service were a very good band. Great to see and hear this again, many thanks for posting it 😃
Holy Shit! They were a great band.
Thanks for putting this on here ! - I watched the original broadcast way back, recorded it on Betamax and eventually it got lost. Now I've got it back ! - Sheer Bliss.
What a jewel! Thanks for posting it!
The guitarist Graeme Taylor used to play in the folk-rock band Gryphon in the early 1970's. Nice to see John Tams too, later of Sharpe fame as Rifleman Daniel Hagman. What a superb line-up playing quality songs.🎵
Indeed I saw Gryphon with Graeme at Cropredy in 2016. Graeme is one of my favorite guitarists. Hopefully Home Service will get to play Cropredy this year, fingers crossed!
@@BryanPetifer oh, I hope Cropredy materialises this year for you 🙏.
I saw Gyphon in about 1974 at QPR football ground, supporting Yes, who were headlining , also on the bill were Ace, and Seals & Crofts . Was a magic performance.
@@valeriekrueger91 One tear later, due to you-know-what, but they did appear at Cropredy this year (2022) and they were brilliant!
Thanks, enjoyed 😉