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Born (1935-10-20 ) 20 October 1935Died 20 November 2018(2018-11-20) (aged 83 )Sheffield , England Genres Folk Occupation(s ) Singer, songwriter Instrument(s ) Vocals, guitar Labels Fuse Website (closed)
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Roy Bailey at Bromyard Folk Festival, 2007
Roy Bailey , MBE sociologist and folk singer . Colin Irwin from the music magazine Mojo ideals ... a triumphal homage to the grass roots folk scene as a radical alternative to the mainstream music industry."
Biography
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Bailey began his musical career in a skiffle band in 1958, and later joined folk supergroup the Three City Four featuring Leon Rosselson , as a replacement for Martin Carthy .[1] [2]
He performed a number of songs by the American singer-songwriter Si Kahn [3] Oats & Beans & Kangaroos is an album of children's songs performed by Roy & Val Bailey with Leon Rosselson.[4] [5]
Bailey worked with Robb Johnson and others on the award-winning Gentle Men [6]
In 2003, Bailey and Tony Benn were awarded "Best Live Act" at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards for their programme Writing on the Wall , later an album.[7] folk singer of his generation."
In the 2000 Honours List, he received the MBE for Services to Folk Music.
On 23 August 2006, he returned his MBE insignia in protest at the British government's foreign policy with regard to Lebanon and the Palestinian territories .
He contributed vocals to Chumbawamba 's 2008 album The Boy Bands Have Won London suicide attacks in 2005 . He also joined the band on stage to sing the song, on their farewell Leeds show in October 2012.
In 2016, Roy released his first live album, Live at Towersey Festival 2015, which was recorded in secret at the festival and featured guest appearances from Martin Simpson and Andy Cutting .[8] Si Kahn , Bob Dylan , Tom Waits , John Tams , Robb Johnson and others. Roy appeared at the very first Towersey Festival in 1965 and his well established Monday afternoon concert as patron regularly drew a crowd of around 1000.
Roy Bailey was an Emeritus Professor of Social Studies at Sheffield Hallam University . He was also the patron of Towersey Village Festival , Shepley Spring Festival and the Music on the Marr Festival based in the village of Castle Carrock , Cumbria. He was the father-in-law of Martin Simpson , a singer and guitarist, whose wife Kit is Bailey's daughter.
Performing his final Monday afternoon concert at Towersey Festival 2018, with a band including Martin Simpson , Andy Cutting , Marc Block, Kit Bailey and Max Simpson
Having struggled with heart failure for over 30 years, Bailey died on 20 November 2018 in St Luke's Hospice, Sheffield.[9]
Discography
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Albums
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Smoke and Dust Where the Heart Should Have Been , CBS 1965 (as part of the Three City Four) [most of the album reissued 2010]
Oats & Beans & Kangaroos , Fontana Records , SFL13061, 1968 (with Leon Rosselson) [children's songs]
Roy Bailey , Trailer Records, LER 3021, 1971
That's Not The Way It's Got To Be , Fuse Records, CF 251, 1975 (with Leon Rosselson)
Love, Loneliness & Laundry , Fuse, CF, 1976 (with Leon Rosselson)
New Bell Wake , Fuse, CF262, 1977
If I Knew Who the Enemy Was , CF284, 1979 (with Leon Rosselson)
Songs of Life from a Dying British Empire [10]
Hard Times , Fuse, CF382, 1982
Freedom Peacefully , Fuse, CF386, 1986
Leaves From a Tree , Fuse, CF394, 1988
Why Does It Have To Be Me? , Fuse, CF396, 1989 [children's songs]
Never Leave A Story Unsung , Fuse, CFCD398, 1991
What You Do With What You've Got , Fuse, CFCD399, 1992 [compilation of 1975–1991 material]
Business As Usual , Fuse, CFCD400, 1994
Rhythm & Reds , Musikfolk, MFO512, 1994 [as Band of Hope – with Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick & John Kirkpatrick ][11]
New Directions in the Old , Fuse, CFCD402, 1999
New Bell Wake , Fuse, CFCD262, 1999
Gentle Men
Past Masters , Fuse, CFCD403, 1998
Coda , Fuse, CFCD, 2000
Up the Wooden Hill , Fuse, CFCD170201, 2002 [children's songs]
Writing on the Wall , Fuse, CFCD405, 2004 (with Tony Benn)
Sit Down and Sing , Fuse CFCD406 2005
Below the Radar , Fuse, CFCD407, 2009
Tomorrow , Fuse, CFCD408, 2010 [children's songs]
Stories EP , Fuse, Digital release only, 2014
Live at Towersey Festival 2015 , Fuse, CFCD410, 2016[12]
Roy Bailey: Remembered .
See also
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References
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^ "Roy Bailey" . Mainlynorfolk.info . 12 September 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2016 .
^ "Roy Bailey: … Freedom Peacefully" . Mainlynorfolk.info . 3 November 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2016 .
^ "Roy & Val Bailey with Leon Rosselson: Oats & Beans & Kangaroos" . Mainlynorfolk.info . 14 September 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2016 .
^ "Roy Bailey: Why Does It Have to Be Me?" . Mainlynorfolk.info . 3 November 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2016 .
^ Robin Denselow. "Robb Johnson, Roy Bailey, Barb Jungr etc: Gentle Men – review" . The Guardian . Retrieved 9 August 2016 .
^ "Tony Benn & Roy Bailey: The Writing on the Wall" . Mainlynorfolk.info . 26 April 2014. Retrieved 9 August 2016 .
^ "Roy Bailey announces first ever live album" Archived 23 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine , "Folking", August 2016
^ Tesson, Geoff (20 November 2018). "Roy Bailey obituary" . The Guardian
^ "Songs of Life from a Dying British Empire" . Smithsonian Folkways Recordings . Retrieved 17 October 2018 .
^ "Archived copy" . Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 20 July 2015 .{{cite web }}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link )
^ "Roy Bailey To Launch Live Album at Towersey" , "Folk Radio UK (FRUK)", 11 August 2016
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