Oysterband

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Formed 1976.

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June Tabor and John Jones of Oysterband speak to Mike Harding

Mike Harding speaks to June Tabor and John Jones from Oysterband about their success at the Radio 2 Folk Awards.

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Oysterband (originally The Oyster Band) is an English electric folk, folk rock, and folk punk band formed in Canterbury in or around 1976.

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