Clive Palmer, Robin Williamson and Mike Heron on the cover of the first Incredible String Band album The Incredible String Band were one of the most influential bands of the Sixties but their roots ...

Mike Heron A couple of years ago I looked up and realised that my musical output had dwindled and now consisted mainly of performances of Incredible String Band material with the Glasgow band ...

In 2007 a friend I had met in the US came to stay for a few days. She put some music she thought I might like on my laptop. Two of these albums turned out to be two of the most important things that ...

Looking back at the British rock scene of the late 1960s, it's hard to believe that bands as diametrically opposed as Pink Floyd and Incredible String Band could share a concert bill. Floyd were ...

The new folk revival has rightly led to renewed interest in the experiments of the 60s folk scene, and the pioneering work of Pentangle and Fairport Convention. But what of the Incredible String Band, ...

THE immediate sense of community and informality created by the performers, immensely passionate about the Incredible String Band, was the most prominent feature of this concert. The haphazard layout ...

Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending: An Incredible String Band Compendium is edited by Adrian Whittaker and available from Strange Attractor Press now "[Liking the ISB] was like joining an exclusive ...

Looking back at the British rock scene of the late 1960s, it's hard to believe that bands as diametrically opposed as Pink Floyd and Incredible String Band could share a concert bill. Floyd were ...

Final trawl of the vaults turns up a double CD’s worth of lost sounds by the Scottish folk starsailors Modern ears frequently can’t get past the more frivolous side of The Incredible String Band: the ...

Just a couple years after the Beatles raised eyebrows with a single sitar, this Scottish combo made two of the most fearlessly and promiscuously eclectic folk albums of all time. The 5000 Spirits or ...

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