Discography

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Phil Beer Solo

Jan Tregeagle. Oddfolk. (1972)

My first ever recording studio experience in an 8 track set up in Torquay. The name now eludes me. My partner Colin Wilson read up an old Cornish legend and turned it into a song cycle. I think we were both heavily influenced by Fairport and specifically ‘John Babbacombe Lee’.  (I still regard this as Fairports finest hour!) After all these years, it’s being turned into an animation.

Mandoline (1978)

Recorded at Mid Wales sound. My first solo album. I persuaded Joe Stead to create a new label name for projects like this. We came up with Greenwich Village records. The cover photo was taken by Glynis Owens in Warwick Downes music shop in Hove. A stones throw from both Steve Knightleys flat and Janice Longs place.

Jon Benns

Many folks will remember Jon as my faithful roadie/ audio butler and companion on the road. He has had a varied career as a radio presenter, musical comedian, theatre manager and tour manager. I recorded his first EP at the infamous Brize Norton RAF folk club in a nissen hut at the end of a runway with aircraft taking off every 15 mins. Many out there will remember!

Hard Hats (1994)
The Works (1998)
Ridgeriders (with Ashley Hutchings and Chris While) (1999)
Mandorock (with the Phil Beer Band) (2000)
Mandorock 2000 Live (with the Phil Beer Band) (2000)
Once in a Blue Moon (2001)
Phil Beer & Deb Sandland Live 2003 (2004)
Rhythm Methodist (2004)
Rhythm Methodist (re-release 2008) Talking Elephant Label.
Hard Works (compilation of Hard Hats and The Works); 2008. Talking Elephant label.
Box Set One (a five disc compilation of archive, live and new music and video); 2010
Plays guitar and fiddle, sings a bit (2014)

With The Albion Band

Under the Rose (1984)

My first Albion Band Album. I was living in Cheltenham at the time and was a regular user of Dik Cadburys ‘Millstream’ studio. I brought the project there.

A Christmas Present from The Albion Band (1985)
Yuletracks (1986) (not Albion Band in name, though almost all of its participants are from The Albion Band. Phil Beer appears on two songs)
Stella Maris (1987)
The Wild Side of Town (1987)
I Got New Shoes (Albion Dance Band) (1988)
Rockin’ Barn Dance (recorded 1988, released 2009)
Give Me a Saddle, I’ll Trade You a Car (1989)
1990 (1990)
Captured/The Unreleased Radio Tapes (1992/1994)

With The Band of Love

Folk Fever (2018)
With Downes and Beer
Life Ain’t Worth Living (1973)
Dance Without Music (1976)
Live in Concept (1980)
Live at Nettlebed (2008, Talking Elephant label)

With Johnny Coppin

Roll On Dreamer (1978)

My first recording work with Johnny Coppin and one of the earlier albums made at Dick Cadburys Millstream Studio in Cheltenham.

No Going Back (1979)
Get Lucky (1982)
Forest and Vale and High Blue Hill (1983)
Line of Blue (1985)
English Morning (1987)
Edge of Day (1989)
West Country Christmas (1990)
Force of the River (1993)
The Winding Stair (2005)

With Show of Hands

Show of Hands (1987)
Tall Ships/Six O’Clock Waltz (1990)
Out for the Count (1991)
Show of Hands Live (1992)
Beat about the Bush (1994)
Lie of the Land (1995)
Dark Fields (1997)
Folk Music (1998)
Backlog (1999)
Show of Hands (2000)
Covers (2000)
Cold Frontier (2001)
The Path (2003)
Country Life (2003)
Witness (2006)
Roots – The Best of Show of Hands (2007)
Arrogance Ignorance and Greed (2009)
Wake The Union (2012)