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Welcome to the official website of record producer and writer Joe Boyd.
Last year Joe's Lucky 13 aired on Resonance FM, 104.4 for 13 weeks
You can catch the Podcast of all the shows in the series.
Oh, about that "13" business - tune in and I'll explain how my lucky number helps me manoeuvre around the yards and yards of lps and cds and pull out plums for your listening pleasure.
Recent Events
Way to Blue
November 11: Sydney Opera House
November 13 - 15: Melbourne Recital Hall
Chinese White Bicycles
November 10th: The Basement, Sydney
December 1: 7.45 pm Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London
| In Madrid recently, I saw a Goya etching with the following timely caption - "The sleep of Reason produces Monsters." j |
White Bicycles now available in Kindle Edition!
Recent Chinese White Bicycle Tour Dates
Live and direct from 1967! Robyn Hitchcock and Joe Boyd present "Chinese White Bicycles"
In this show Joe reads excerpts from his book and Robyn plays related songs. Read Reviews
Later this year Joe and Robyn take their show to the US and the UK
October 4: Santa Fe Brewing Company, Santa Fe, New Mexico
October 7: Cactus Cafe, Austin, Texas
October 8: McGonigel's Mucky Duck, Houston, Texas
Previous Events
Way to Blue
Following last January's shows and the BBC's broadcast of the Barbican show last spring, we arranged 6 more shows, 2 in Italy and 4 in Britain.
The Incredible String Band's first four albums have been reissued.
Read a Review from Shindig! Magazine
CD versions will also be remastered. The downloadable albums are not currently remastered but will be soon...
REM's Fables of the Reconstruction reissued and remastered.
Interview with B92 Radio in Belgrade
I have always admired the courage represented by B92 Radio in Belgrade, who provided a creative opposition during the dark Milosovic years in Serbia. I was pleased and proud to do an interview with them - which is transcribed here in Serbian. You can also listen to the radio interview in English
A Celebration of Kate McGarrigle
Lives That Touched Mine - Joe Boyd Newsletter April 10
A tribute concert was held for Kate as part of Richard Thompson's Meltdown Festival featuring Anna McGarrigle, Martha and Rufus Wainwright, Linda and Richard Thompson, Emmylou Harris.
Concert Reviews
Other Events:
Watch videos of the concert in Birmingham Town Hall Way to Blue - The Songs Of Nick Drake
The Witchseason Weekend at the Barbican celebrated the music of Fairport Convention and the Incredible String Band. Read a review - Very Cellular Songs
Here's a link to a piece from Joe's home-town newspaper Town Topics....
Carthage Music:
I am still dabbling in the music business as a partner in Carthage, a music publishing company. Artists include Ivo Papasov, Chango Spasiuk and Tony Allen. Click here for Carthage Music News
Newsletters:
Read Joe's Newsletters for news on Upcoming Events as well as reports on musical and other activities he has been involved with over the past few months
International News
(including translations of White Bicycles):
White Bicycles: Making Music in the the 1960s. ReviewsNew Reviews from Germany US Reviews "The simple brilliance of... an irresistible tale. Boyd's wit and candor are rare enough, but what truly makes his writing stand out are his insights into an era when rock 'n' roll still seemed exciting and strange." "Boyd tells...this thoroughly entertaining memoir....with the kind of tender precision that raises 'White Bicycles' far above the ordinary rock bio and into the realm of valuable cultural commentary." "One of the most balanced and engaging look-backs of the '60s yet" NY DAILY NEWS "A deliciously detailed memoir." "It's an extraordinarily entertaining book; Boyd pulls from a bottomless bag of great stories, and his understated way with a punchline catches you by surprise. The result is a rock memoir marked by the drollery of an old-fashioned show-biz memoir." "Read it!" |
Compilation wins Mojo Award!
White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s - The Joe Boyd Story Track Listing:
UK Reviews "One of the most lucid and insightful music autobiographies I've read. Captures evanescent history with remarkable clarity (and) has enough of a grasp of larger issues - historical, philosophical, psychological - to be of interest to readers unfamiliar with the records Boyd produced." "Joe Boyd's memoir of his musical adventures is as acute and natural-sounding as his record productions. White Bicycles is as good an adjunct to great popular music as any that's been written." "What a wonderful book! I was so engrossed I missed my train station. A gripping piece of social history and the best book about music I've read in years." "Terrific book. The stories he tells are so enthralling and his sense of the period and the characters are so vivid..this engaging and readable book is an important addition to the history of its time." |
New White Bicycles Chapter During the final edit, I dropped a chapter from White Bicycles. It didn't really fit into the flow of the book, being about the events surrounding the making of the film "Scandal", which I produced in 1988 (but which was about the Sixties, which was why I wrote the chapter in the first place). Taken out of the context of the book, it still makes a good yarn, so consider it a 'bonus track' to White Bicycles, available only online! Robert KirbyNick Drake's string arranger, Robert Kirby, died in October 2009. He had conducted his original string arrangements for Nick in May of that year in our tribute concert in Birmingham. The strings sounded glorious and he had a wonderful time. He was so looking forward to the concerts coming up the next January and all of us are saddened by his death. It was a pleasure and a privilege to work with him. I took part in a Radio 4 programme about him called "Last Word". Tributes to Ludovic Kennedy and the Queen's Press Secretary precede Robert's, but at least he comes before the former Queen of Libya! (They play a bit of River Man, although that was the one arrangement of Nick's Robert didn't do!) You can hear it here - it's the one dated October 23. Carthage Music:I am still dabbling in the music business as a partner in Carthage, a music publishing company. Artists include Ivo Papasov, Chango Spasiuk and Tony Allen. Click here for Carthage Music News Syd Barret Tribute ConcertBelow is an excerpt of my article featured in the programme of the Syd Barrett tribute concert May 10 2007 at London's Barbican Theatre. View full article.
DEMOS!: I have always adhered to the notion that I will listen to anything once. But I am no longer seeking producing gigs, I don't have a label and I don't go to gigs involving WPSEs (White People Singing in English). Serpents Tail have been very polite about forwarding cds people want me to hear. But I urge you NOT to send demos to them. If there is something you feel I absolutely must hear, and have no need for a response from me, please send a stamped envelope to Rebecca for forwarding. | |
