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The Archive is eager to obtain in any live audio or video performances featuring Ollie and any stories, anecdotes or reminiscences from those who knew him or even just saw him play. We will be happy to trade with copies of our extensive collection of recordings and press cuttings

 

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Abbots Langley
Abbots Langley
Ollie Halsall with
John Halsey

A new album of
previously unreleased recordings

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Caves
Caves
Ollie Halsall
Ollie's long-lost solo album
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Warts and All
Warts & All
Patto
The ONLY live Patto album - at The Black Swan, Sheffield

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Scraps album cover - John Otway
Scraps
John Otway
TRIPLE album including 7 Otway and Halsall 1979 collaborations
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Shapes and Sounds
Shapes & Sounds
BBC Radio 1 sessions 1968 | 1969. Including 4 live Timebox tracks
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Still Life with Guitar
Still Life With Guitar
Kevin Ayers
Ollie's final collaboration with Kevin Ayers

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Uncommon Sound
Uncommon Sound
The Left-Handed Guitar Players that Changed Music
by John Engel

The definitive, long-awaited book about left-handed guitar players and lefty guitars is finally available.

This is a lavishly packaged limied edition which promises to become a collector's item. A certain southpaw Southport lad is featured amongst this wealth of painstaking text and rare photographs
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Tuning Up At Dawn
Tuning Up at Dawn
A Memoir of Music and Mallorca
by Thomas Graves

The Pambs bass player's book about the Catalan music and culture makes fascinating reading and includes a lengthy chapter on Ollie and his association with The Pa Amb Oli Band
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Tuning Up At Dawn
Caves
by Ollie Halsall, Olie Lynton and Lady June

One of the world's shortest books.
Currently out of print but reproduced almost in it's entirety here

Oddity
The Outer Tunes

The Outer Tunes
Outer Tune 1987

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Galliery
Radio
galliery

Including high resolution downloads and wallpaper here

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On The Mersey Beat
Radio Merseyside
2000
Barry Monks interviewed by Spencer Leigh

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