Barclay James Harvest Quotes

Well Ian (Wilson, acoustic guitars and occasional bass) had actually done gigs on the same bill as BJH in the early 70�s and tells a good story about the band he was in at the time, Greasy Bear, loaning the Barclays their stereo PA system for a �small consideration� when the BJH PA packed in! Steve Butler, Ian and myself worked on �Welcome to the Show� in 1989, also recorded at Revolution Studios. A friend of mine took me to see them around 1974 in Manchester �You�ve got to see this band� he said. I remember the album covers on the inner sleeves of my Deep Purple LPs ..the Harvest label. I remember Mel, what great drumming and what great rock and roll hair Les had! I worked at lot at Strawberry Studios in Stockport in the 80�s with Martin Lawrence who had produced and engineered many albums for BJH and the gold and platinum albums were everywhere. They had a very high profile and it was great to be asked to work on Show, then later on Revolution Days. 
Mike Byron-Hehir

Well I think the attitude in the UK is odd to say the least. Always has been. There are some great venues, there are audiences but people don�t seem to want to take the chance a lot of the time because of the expense, risk whatever ..maybe it�s financial, maybe it�s the red tape, regulations, you cant do that because of this, your not trendy etc. There�s a great festival culture in Europe where, besides the Coldplays and Arctic Monkeys or whoever, bands from the 60�s, 70�s, 80�s can still draw a good audience.
Mike Byron-Hehir