Mr & Mrs Jarvis and Tiffany Thistle,
Mr & Mrs Ben and Lydia Thistle, playing games with; guitar, Harmonium, accordian, flute, melodica, organ, djembe, recorder, Drums, tambourines, fiddle and anything else that makes noise, and Matt on percussion, Big Al Davies on Bass, Little Mikey the dog, as himself, and occassionally Michael and Benet on saz, violin, lute and more x
Influences
Pentangle, The Trees, Fuchsia, The Incredible String Band, Heron, Mellow Candle, Tir Na Nog, Love, Davey Graham, Haight-Ashbury, Midwinter, Shirley and Dolly Collins, Martin Carthy, Donovan, Quicksilver messenger service, The Soft Machine, C.O.B, The Young Tradition, Ivor Cutler, The Kociana Orchestra, Sun also Rises, Fairport Convention, Shide and Acorn, Comus, Anne Briggs...
Sounds Like
Drunken faeries singing with sailors through seashells, gypsies dancing through heather on the first of May x.
Buy our album "Rosemarie" complete with beautiful artwork through Amazon
HERE
ThistleTown were born in a field overlooking the sea, when a unicorn, a talking dove and a spare guitar came together. We searched for the missing piece, and as the summer died, a love story blossomed, and ThistleTown became astrologically complete.
Download our album here
dearest thistles... hope you are all well.. sending you much summer warmth - and also to let you know there are some newly recorded poems to listen to on my page! much love xxx
Don't miss this musical freak zone in Penryn tomorrow, Headliners The Trembling Bells (members from Scatter, and Will Oldams drummer) are a 6 piece band with a love of canonical rock, traditional folk and Earlie musik they seek to reaimate the psychic landscapes of Great Britain....don't miss this musical adventure! Also on the bill are Penryn's rising stars The Rosemarie Band and Red River Dialect. For £4 on the door this will surely be a nite to remember xx
Dear ThistleTown. Thanks muchly for adding me. I wish you every success with your album. I LOVE what you do (and where you're doing it!) My warmest regard. Martin
"Labyrinth" on my radio show, The British Breakfast on WRIR 97.3FM Richmond, Virginia USA (www. wrir. org) this Saturday between 9-11am est which is either 2-4pm or 3-5pm UK time. Love your music and am so glad I found it.
Best wishes from Fruits de Mer Records, a small but almost perfectly-formed new psych/folk/prog label.
Check out our site for old and new videos, all the latest news on our first single (Small Faces' Ogden's Nut Gone Flake meets Van der Graaf Generator's Theme One - both by the brilliant Schizo Fun Addict - a very limited coloured vinyl pressing, just 300 copies worldwide), along with a few random live reviews, very old jokes and all manner of stuff - PLUS early news on our next project, with Mellow Candle's Alison O'Donnell, featuring a cover of a classic Nick Drake track!
Hope you and your friends enjoy the site and what we're doing, do let us know!
Just posted - Record Collector magazine's review of our first single (and - thank you, god - they love it)
[new live version of 'homeless' up on my profile just to let you know] .......any thistletown gigs blowing this way soon? hope you have a lovely evening love xx
