Bluehorses - A retrospective and memories

The Ride video .. another from the cutting room floor

noreply@blogger.com (Bluesky Miner) — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 08:50:00 +0000

Following on from the "Ray of light" Resurrection, I found the source for this one as well .. a different night, but enough to make the vid.

Released as an Ostara present for the BH fans.

Ray of Light video

noreply@blogger.com (Bluesky Miner) — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 19:01:00 +0000

Lizzy asked me to dig this one out of the archives, so nearly 8 years late here is Ray of Light from the 13 fires album as performed at the Robin2 in Bilston during the Xmas tour of 2007

Bluehorses site

noreply@blogger.com (Bluesky Miner) — Wed, 01 Jan 2014 14:19:00 +0000

The demise of the Bluehorses web site has lead me to re-purpose this site and try to maintain the wealth of information that was previously available there.

Original Live Video Tracks now on YouTube

noreply@blogger.com (Bluesky Miner) — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 15:47:00 +0000

A number of people keep asking for this, and as we do not have any copies left (and they were only done on VHS tape - if you are old enough to remember that!), we have transposed then for the web and put them up on You Tube..

This has one of the early line ups with Emily on violin, Rob on bass, and Martin on Guitar together with Nic and Liz.

Bluehorses CDs still available on Amazon (UK)

noreply@blogger.com (Bluesky Miner) — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:32:00 +0000

All the Bluehorses CDs can still be purchased on the UK Amazon site

CDs

Skyclad -EP **Sold Out**

DVD

Live at Saul - DVD

On word of Warning .... there are some MP3's under the "live in London" title ... these are of a rather "dubious" quality and not endorsed by the band. They appear to date form the very early 2000's and bear no relation to the picture (Jay was not in the band at the time!)

Live at Saul DVD tracks on YouTube

noreply@blogger.com (Bluesky Miner) — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:20:00 +0000

All the Live at Saul DVD tracks are now visible on Youtube ... they are all individual so you can make up your own playlist, however the complete listing can be found on this playlist

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9FC3CA67798090DE

Some videos from the archive

noreply@blogger.com (Bluesky Miner) — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 15:01:00 +0000

Cruising around the depths of the hard drive I stumbled upon some un-published video from the days before Thirteen Fires ....

Crow on the Cradle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzjnbA8Ykjk

Skyclad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zzBsZrpvaU

and Twmbarlwm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIi2bECjsr0

Live shows sabatical

noreply@blogger.com (Bluesky Miner) — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:28:00 +0000

The following statement has been issued by the band (that sounds really formal but wasn't supposed to be). This is to kind of explain why no shows have been forthcoming this year.

Having been 'at it' for nearly fifteen years (! - where did that go then???) the band have decided to take a break from live shows this year and spend a bit of time working on their own things.

Nic and Jay have been having fun in the studio over the past few weeks working on ideas for a new project, and Liz is concentrating on the more traditional side of things for a while.

Nic's also finding time - and headspace! - to design and make Celtic and Anglo-Saxon inspired ceramic sculpture and tiles for the first time since he and Liz started the band waaay back in 1994.

Huge thanks as ever for your continuing support, we really will miss seeing all of you at the festies and shows and to keep you going til we next meet... do make sure you pick up a copy of the new album 'Thirteen Fires' - it really is a stormer :o)

You can buy the album, and all the other CDs and DVD from the website http://www.bluehorses.co.uk (paypal or credit cards accepted) and from http://www.amazon.co.uk

Our very, very best wishes to you from everyone at BH Towers

Bluehorses on Last.fm

noreply@blogger.com (Bluesky Miner) — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:26:00 +0000

Have you come across this interesting take on internet radio? It has brought a new word into the english dictionary - "Scrobble". I basically means - choose a track for me from an artist similar to the one just played ... it does take you down some interesting avenues ...

anyway there are several tracks from Bluehorses loaded into this jukebox on steroids which you can choose to listen to as well as playlists set up by yourselves ... have a look around and enjoy

Bluehorses on last.fm

New video - Raggle Taggle Gypsio

noreply@blogger.com (Bluesky Miner) — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:21:00 +0000

Another in the series of videos of tunes from the new Bluehorses album - Thirteen Fires.

This time Mike has taken footage filmed at The Point in Cardiff, Farmer Phil's festival, Solfest and Peterborough Beer Festival and mixed it all together.

Rob Leighton of Radio Caroline

noreply@blogger.com (Bluesky Miner) — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:46:00 +0000

It is with great sadness and much disbelief, that we have to report the untimely death of a great supporter and fan of Bluehorses.

Rob Leighton, a presenter on Radio Caroline, Died on 17th January. The details and arrangements can be found on the Radio Caroline web site and a book of condolences is also available.

Rob was a great friend to the band and our thoughts are with his wife Sharon.

Main Bluehorses Web site revamp

noreply@blogger.com (Bluesky Miner) — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:36:00 +0000

The Bluehorses website has been given a revamp ....
Rob at Bluedreamer has come up with a stonking new design, and a very easy to follow navigation.

the main page is displayed here.

Celtic Metal from Wales UK

Some of the old features are not currently available, the forums for example, but these may be back in a slightly different guise later in the year.

Have a look, have a listen, and buy the new album ;0

Bluehorses - Waes Hael Video

noreply@blogger.com (Bluesky Miner) — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:13:00 +0000

The second in a series of Videos of Bluehorses playing tracks from the new album - Thirteen Fires this is Waes Hael, a drinking song.

Bluehorses - Thirteen Fires Press Release

noreply@blogger.com (Bluesky Miner) — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:22:00 +0000

Native Spirit Records Press Release - December 2007

The New Bluehorses Album - Thirteen Fires - Native Spirit NSBH CD007

They’re back with their first album in 7 years and they ain’t taking no prisoners! Welsh Celtic Rockers, Bluehorses, have gone back to their roots and come up with a new album ‘Thirteen Fires’ that’s dripping with metallic riffs, double kick-drums and soaring violin.

Fronted by Irish/Welsh Gothess, Lizzie Prendergast, whose storming electric-violin, electric-Celtic-harp and vocals provide the Celtic flavour, the band have come out of the closet - and brought some skeletons with them!

Founder member, drummer and arranger Nic Waulker says “Over the last 15 years we’ve played numerous festivals in every country in the UK, Europe and Scandinavia, but compared to the stuff we’ve jammed in the privacy of Bluehorse Towers, we’ve always toned things down quite a bit. Thanks to the delights of YouTube, we’ve discovered there’s a massive Folk Metal scene going on in Europe and Scandinavia headed up by bands like Korpiklaani and In Extremo and it’s made us realise there’s now an awful lot of people around who want to hear the kind of music we’ve always really enjoyed playing.

With Thirteen Fires we’ve let our hair down and are just being ourselves. I think this new stuff actually sounds more like us than anything we’ve recorded in the past, because with the dearth of out and out rock festivals through the 90’s, we managed to keep playing a lot of festivals by working within the folky infrastructure By following that route we’ve been doing as many as 20 festivals across the UK and Europe in some years, but the downside was we couldn’t put out anything too heavy or we’d have cut down the number of them who’d entertain us.

Even then, once we did the live shows, we still caused plenty of protest from the Folk-Police… “ ‘eavy Metal at Trowbridge Festival???! I never heard nothin like it...” and (shrilly) “I had to run out of the marquee to protect my hearing...” blah blah.
But no more will we be restrained from producing the most storming Celtic-flavoured rock and roll music possible by old reactionaries and Luddites!

Jay made a huge contribution to creating the sound of the album, far more than any other band member in the past. With previous work it’s always tended to be me driving the process along with Lizzie. This time I mainly worked with Jay on the basic ideas and Lizzie came in after to add violin parts and together we put together the vocal melodies and choruses. That way we ended up with a collection of tracks with a far more out and out rock sound which I think will appeal to a much wider audience.

The guitars are a lot more prominent than on anything we’ve done before and it’s a pretty wild and heavy beast, while still keeping all the familiar elements that make Bluehorses music unique.

Here’s the tracklist:

1. Dance With Me
2. Ray of Light
3. Calling My Loves
4. The Ride
5. Chant
6. Raggle Taggle Gypsio
7. The Unknown
8. The Fool
9. Aberdulais
10. Waes Hael

You can snap up your copy of the new album (along with the CD back catalogue and DVD) from our online store at www.bluehorses.co.uk, or from amazon.co.uk

Bluehorses - Dance With Me Video

noreply@blogger.com (Bluesky Miner) — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:49:00 +0000

Much later than planned and hoped here is Bluehorses and the Dance With Me video from the Summer Festivals...

Bluehorses new album now available to buy on-line

noreply@blogger.com (Bluesky Miner) — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:43:00 +0000

The new Bluehorses album - Thirteen Fires is available to purchase on-line from either the Bluehorses store - http://www.bluehorses.co.uk/goodies or else from Amazon at http://www.amazon.co.uk/Thirteen-Fires-Bluehorses/dp/B0010YO876

all for a staggering £10 +p&p.

Also available at the same places are the
Live at Saul (DVD)
10 Leagues
Dragons Milk and Coal
Cracking Leather Skin and Bone
Skyclad (EP)

Bluehorses on the radio

noreply@blogger.com (Bluesky Miner) — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:48:00 +0000

Some more opportunities to hear some tracks from the new Bluehorses album - Thirteen fires -

Merlin's Magical Music Moments. on Soundart radio 87.7 fm Wednesday 12th December 8:30pm til 10pm GMT
Listen live via webstreaming @ www.myspace.com/soundart_fm just follow the link which loads onto your PC's media player.
Full play list for the show on Merlin's myspace page

Radio Caroline thurs eve, 13th Dec - imagination radio, rob leighton.
Caroline can be heard on Sky channel 0199, or on-line at www.radiocaroline.co.uk. Choose the Abacast stream for optimum quality.

The show is marked to start at 9pm GMT and last for three hours.

December Newsletter from Bluehorses: Remember November - new album goes to print

noreply@blogger.com (Bluesky Miner) — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:19:00 +0000

The Bluehorses December newsletter has been emailed to those who signed up on the main website front page.

The newsletter can be seen on the newsletter blog pages Magazine Newsletter from Bluehorses: Remember November - new album goes to print

If you did not receive it, and would like to do so in the future, or if you previously signed up but nothing has arrived in your in-box, please enter your mail address in the box on the main band web page. We also had a problem this time with people on some mail systems, it may be that your mail accounts are blocking the newsletter as Spam. If this is the case then you can continue to receive the newsletter by setting the sending account as valid sender (the account is "horseheadzine at gmail.com" .. change the at to an @ sign)

Thirteen Fires artwork preview and track listing

noreply@blogger.com (Bluesky Miner) — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:25:00 +0000

Thirteen fires - the new Bluehorses album - artwork has been signed off .... yipee

The album will be presented in a digipac so the artwork can be a little larger than your average CD. The cover image is wrapped around the equivalent of 3 covers

the front cover in greater detail.

The track listing for the album has been finalised as :-

Dance With Me
Ray of Light
Calling My Loves
The Ride
Chant
Raggle Taggle Gypsio
The Unknown
The Fool
Aberdulais
Waes Hael

Six of these tracks can be previewed on the Bluehorses myspace site

Album tracks released for preview

noreply@blogger.com (Bluesky Miner) — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:46:00 +0000

6 new tracks have been uploaded to the Bluehorses MySpace profile.

Waes Hael
Dance With Me
Ray of Light
Calling My Loves
Aberdulais
The Fool

The CD will be available from our main website store immediately after Xmas 2007 (and at the Yule Bashes in Derby, Winchester and Bilston nr. Birmingham)

They're back with a new sound and they ain't taking no prisoners! Welsh Celtic Rockers Bluehorses have gone back to their roots and come up with a new album - their 7th - that's bursting with metallic riffs, pounding double kick drums and electric violin.

Fronted by Irish/Welsh Gothess, Lizzie Prendergast, whose storming violin and vocals provide the Celtic flavour, the band have come out of the closet - and brought some skeletons with them!

Founder member and drummer Nic Waulker says "Over the last 15 years we've played numerous festivals in every country in Europe and Scandinavia, but compared to the stuff we've jammed in the privacy of Bluehorse Towers, we've always toned things down quite a bit.

Now thanks to the delights of YouTube, we've discovered there's a massive Folk Metal scene going on with fantastic bands like Korpiklaani and In Extremo and it's made us realise there's an awful lot of people around who want to hear the kind of music we've always really enjoyed playing.

We spent the summer at our studio up here in the Welsh mountains with Jay MacDonald our guitarist - who also played bass on Thirteen Fires - writing and recording the new album which has just gone to press, and we seriously think it's a bit of a stunning beast!

Xmas mini tour and Album launch

noreply@blogger.com (Bluesky Miner) — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:03:00 +0000

Bluehorses are playing 3 shows in 3 days in December, as part of the their traditional run up to Christmas.

This year however there is the added advantage of the launch of Thirteen Fires - the new album.

Friday 14th Dec - The Flowerpot in Derby
Saturday 15th Dec - The Railway in Winchester
Sunday 16th Dec - The Robin2 in Bilston

See you there

Skyclad video added

noreply@blogger.com (Bluesky Miner) — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:51:00 +0000

The video on the main bluehorses site has been changed to show Skyclad from the live DVD.

Don't forget to check out the other videos on the Bluehorses channel on YouTube which cover tunes from recent years, and some behind the scenes views from the band.

November Newsletter published

noreply@blogger.com (Bluesky Miner) — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:39:00 +0000

The Bluehorses November newsletter has been emailed to those who signed up on the main website front page.

The newsletter can be seen on the newsletter blog pages Magazine Newsletter from Bluehorses: October

If you did not receive it, and would like to do so in the future, or if you previously signed up but nothing has arrived in your in-box, please enter your mail address in the box on the main band web page. We also had a problem this time with people on some mail systems, it may be that your mail accounts are blocking the newsletter as Spam. If this is the case then you can continue to receive the newsletter by setting the sending account as valid sender (the account is "horseheadzine at gmail.com" .. change the at to an @ sign)

new foal in the stables

noreply@blogger.com (Bluesky Miner) — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:54:00 +0000

Baby Connor McDonald was born last night - 17th Oct 2007 at 18-45

Mother and Baby (8lbs 3.5oz) calm and doing well. Jay is very proud Daddy again.

No doubt pictures will be available soon in the gallery ;)

New video on website

noreply@blogger.com (Bluesky Miner) — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:52:00 +0000

During the Summer festivals a couple of new tunes were aired; one of these that went down rather well with all who were there, was "Dance With Me".

A new video has been compiled from the footage shot at the Peterborough Beer Festival show by Mike, and is now showing on YouTube, and there is also a view on the main band web page