Heads up Nick Drake Five Leaves Left

Steve,

You were lucky as it is now at £24.67.

Richard

No, I think that's for the box set. Here's the link;

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Five-L...d_rhf_ee_s_cp_5_PFEF

Steve

Ah thanks......what a service you provide!

All part of the service sir. 

Was the Neil Young concert good last night?

Neil and Crazy Horse on top form

Going Monday Fangloss - can't wait. The Guardian gave the gig you went to Five Stars!

Rise in Bristol have Bryter Later for £15, on their website too

Bryter Layter is currently less than a tenner on Amazon with free P&P too. 

Many many thanks for this heads up. Really looking forward to hearing these re-issues.

Has anyone compared these latest versions to the 200g Japanese pressings?

gary

Cheers Mike, free p&p too. If it turns out not to be the box set its still good value.

Gay

The first pressing's now going for £1000 so anything's a bargain.

Five Leaves Left - and five years before he died.

A girl I knew, long lost in the mists of time, once saw Nick Drake at a festival in East Yorkshire (I never went) and bought what was the original LP release at the time.

She said he was very quite and shy on stage but very attractive and I think that is why she bought the LP!

Richard

Mike,

I have the Pink Moon box set and the Bryter Layter 'single' LP. Both come with the same digital downloads and the inner sleeve of Bryter Layter is a similar facsimile to the Pink Moon inner. I'm pretty certain they come from the same source. I guess you pay your money and take your choice, but at these prices you can't go wrong. 

Steve

Steve thank you for the heads up on the ND. Who need Stu. Also glad to hear that you are enjoying  your new cart. Hope to hear it v soon.

PS. The pic's are fantastic, what about a second career as a photographer? 

Regards Graham.

Thanks Graham.

The Kandid is very good indeed. Photography is a hobby I wish I had more time for.

Looking forward to meeting up.

Steve

Funnily enough I met someone recently at the Cheltenham Folk Festival who'd seen ND in Bristol in 1970 supporting Fotheringay. She said he just walked on, played half an hour of songs, and walked off... but was very good. 

Love to do that as soon as I can find where my wife filed the 200g pressings when she reorganised the LP collection when I was on a business trip.  Up side is I am rediscovering all sorts of music I had "forgotten" about.

Video of unpacking the new Nick Drake Five Leaves Left LP box set:

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v...26feature%3Dyoutu.be

and from the Bryter Music e-newsletter:

Dear Friends,

Poverty stricken students of 1968 rolled their own: not for them the cigarette temptations of a pack of 10 Embassy.  Oh no - their tobacco thrills came hand rolled, usually in Rizla papers, which contained a kindly reminder to the user when they were about to run out. Typed in bold red on a yellow interleaf paper, it stated ONLY FIVE LEAVES LEFT.

It was from this reminder that Nick Drake’s debut album derived its name. With its bucolic autumnal shades, it heralded a new type of signing for Island Record, being neither traditional enough to be folk, not weird enough to be psychedelic. Drake avoided the pitfalls of what was expected and collaborated with producer Joe Boyd, orchestrator Robert Kirby and recording engineer John Wood to make a singular and almost unique record -  which was released to a largely indifferent media.

However, a few leaves fell in the right place and, despite Nick’s early death at the age of 26 in 1974, his reputation slowly escalated into the world-wide fame he enjoys today.

Originally the album was released on vinyl and cassette. But these formats became redundant with the advent of CDs, and then downloads. For those still wanting the album in its original form, the choice was limited to a highly priced original pressing, or a poor quality bootleg.

But now, Island Records is completing the ReDISCovered vinyl set of Nick Drake’s albums with this boxed replica of his debut album. As with the other two albums, it was remastered from the original un-eq’d quarter inch master tapes by John Wood at Abbey Road Studios and pressed using wholly analogue processes onto 180 gsm virgin vinyl. The sleeve is an exact replica of the first edition of the album and is coupled with a period shop poster, lyrics to two of Nick’s songs and options to download the tracks in MP3, Hi-Res FLAC files or the new DFD (dubbed-from-disc) files for that authentic listening experience.

As with the previous two titles, the boxed edition is a ‘limited’ edition - the vinyl will be issued without the box and extra materials at a later date. 

Wednesday 19th June marks the 65th anniversary of Nick's birth and the BBC are marking this with an hour long radio broadcast dedicated to Nick's music.

Ever since the initial broadcast of the David Barber produced BBC radio documentary on Nick, way back in the mid 1990s, BBC Radio 2 have quietly championed Nick's music as well as traditional British folk music in the broadest sense of that term.

Next Wednesday is no exception as Mark Radcliffe will interview Joe Boyd and play various versions of Nick's music, - you may even get to hear the odd Molly Drake song too!

Richard

And for analogue fans:

"As with the other two albums, it was remastered from the original un-eq’d quarter inch master tapes by John Wood at Abbey Road Studios and pressed using wholly analogue processes onto 180 gsm virgin vinyl"

That makes it even more frustrating that the Beatles box set wasn't produced by Abbey Road all analogue as well! 

The SQ of the Nick Drake albums are as good allowing for the rather 'soft' production of the original recording. 

Steve