Original Live Video Tracks now on YouTube

A number of people keep asking for this, and as we do not have any copies left (and they were only done on VHS tape - if you are old enough to remember that!), we have transposed then for the web and put them up on You Tube..



This has one of the early line ups with Emily on violin, Rob on bass, and Martin on Guitar together with Nic and Liz.

Bluehorses CDs still available on Amazon (UK)

All the Bluehorses CDs can still be purchased on the UK Amazon site

CDs

• Thirteen Fires
• Ten Leagues beyond the Wild Worlds End
• Dragons Milk and Coal
• Cracking Leather Skin and Bone 

EP

• Skyclad  -EP **Sold Out**

DVD

• Live at Saul - DVD

On word of Warning ....  there are some MP3's under the "live in London" title ... these are of a rather "dubious" quality and not endorsed by the band. They appear to date form the very early 2000's and bear no relation to the picture (Jay was not in the band at the time!)

Live at Saul DVD tracks on YouTube

All the Live at Saul DVD tracks are now visible on Youtube ...  they are all individual so you can make up your own playlist, however the complete listing can be found on this playlist

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9FC3CA67798090DE

Some videos from the archive

Cruising around the depths of the hard drive I stumbled upon some un-published video from the days before Thirteen Fires ....

Crow on the Cradle   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzjnbA8Ykjk

Skyclad  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zzBsZrpvaU

and Twmbarlwm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIi2bECjsr0

Bluehorses on Last.fm

Have you come across this interesting take on internet radio? It has brought a new word into the english dictionary - "Scrobble". I basically means - choose a track for me from an artist similar to the one just played ... it does take you down some interesting avenues ...

anyway there are several tracks from Bluehorses loaded into this jukebox on steroids which you can choose to listen to as well as playlists set up by yourselves ... have a look around and enjoy

Bluehorses on last.fm

New video - Raggle Taggle Gypsio

Another in the series of videos of tunes from the new Bluehorses album - Thirteen Fires.

This time Mike has taken footage filmed at The Point in Cardiff, Farmer Phil's festival, Solfest and Peterborough Beer Festival and mixed it all together.

Rob Leighton of Radio Caroline

It is with great sadness and much disbelief, that we have to report the untimely death of a great supporter and fan of Bluehorses.

Rob Leighton, a presenter on Radio Caroline, Died on 17th January. The details and arrangements can be found on the Radio Caroline web site and a book of condolences is also available.

Rob was a great friend to the band and our thoughts are with his wife Sharon.

Main Bluehorses Web site revamp

The Bluehorses website has been given a revamp ....
Rob at Bluedreamer has come up with a stonking new design, and a very easy to follow navigation.

the main page is displayed here.

Celtic Metal from Wales UK


Some of the old features are not currently available, the forums for example, but these may be back in a slightly different guise later in the year.

Have a look, have a listen, and buy the new album ;0

Bluehorses - Thirteen Fires Press Release

Native Spirit Records Press Release - December 2007

The New Bluehorses Album - Thirteen Fires - Native Spirit NSBH CD007

They’re back with their first album in 7 years and they ain’t taking no prisoners! Welsh Celtic Rockers, Bluehorses, have gone back to their roots and come up with a new album ‘Thirteen Fires’ that’s dripping with metallic riffs, double kick-drums and soaring violin.

Fronted by Irish/Welsh Gothess, Lizzie Prendergast, whose storming electric-violin, electric-Celtic-harp and vocals provide the Celtic flavour, the band have come out of the closet - and brought some skeletons with them!

Founder member, drummer and arranger Nic Waulker says “Over the last 15 years we’ve played numerous festivals in every country in the UK, Europe and Scandinavia, but compared to the stuff we’ve jammed in the privacy of Bluehorse Towers, we’ve always toned things down quite a bit. Thanks to the delights of YouTube, we’ve discovered there’s a massive Folk Metal scene going on in Europe and Scandinavia headed up by bands like Korpiklaani and In Extremo and it’s made us realise there’s now an awful lot of people around who want to hear the kind of music we’ve always really enjoyed playing.

With Thirteen Fires we’ve let our hair down and are just being ourselves. I think this new stuff actually sounds more like us than anything we’ve recorded in the past, because with the dearth of out and out rock festivals through the 90’s, we managed to keep playing a lot of festivals by working within the folky infrastructure By following that route we’ve been doing as many as 20 festivals across the UK and Europe in some years, but the downside was we couldn’t put out anything too heavy or we’d have cut down the number of them who’d entertain us.

Even then, once we did the live shows, we still caused plenty of protest from the Folk-Police… “ ‘eavy Metal at Trowbridge Festival???! I never heard nothin like it...” and (shrilly) “I had to run out of the marquee to protect my hearing...” blah blah.
But no more will we be restrained from producing the most storming Celtic-flavoured rock and roll music possible by old reactionaries and Luddites!

Jay made a huge contribution to creating the sound of the album, far more than any other band member in the past. With previous work it’s always tended to be me driving the process along with Lizzie. This time I mainly worked with Jay on the basic ideas and Lizzie came in after to add violin parts and together we put together the vocal melodies and choruses. That way we ended up with a collection of tracks with a far more out and out rock sound which I think will appeal to a much wider audience.

The guitars are a lot more prominent than on anything we’ve done before and it’s a pretty wild and heavy beast, while still keeping all the familiar elements that make Bluehorses music unique.

Here’s the tracklist:

1. Dance With Me
2. Ray of Light
3. Calling My Loves
4. The Ride
5. Chant
6. Raggle Taggle Gypsio
7. The Unknown
8. The Fool
9. Aberdulais
10. Waes Hael

You can snap up your copy of the new album (along with the CD back catalogue and DVD) from our online store at www.bluehorses.co.uk, or from amazon.co.uk

Bluehorses new album now available to buy on-line

The new Bluehorses album - Thirteen Fires is available to purchase on-line from either the Bluehorses store - http://www.bluehorses.co.uk/goodies or else from Amazon at http://www.amazon.co.uk/Thirteen-Fires-Bluehorses/dp/B0010YO876

all for a staggering £10 +p&p.

Also available at the same places are the
Live at Saul (DVD)
10 Leagues
Dragons Milk and Coal
Cracking Leather Skin and Bone
Skyclad (EP)

December Newsletter from Bluehorses: Remember November - new album goes to print

The Bluehorses December newsletter has been emailed to those who signed up on the main website front page.

The newsletter can be seen on the newsletter blog pages Magazine Newsletter from Bluehorses: Remember November - new album goes to print

If you did not receive it, and would like to do so in the future, or if you previously signed up but nothing has arrived in your in-box, please enter your mail address in the box on the main band web page. We also had a problem this time with people on some mail systems, it may be that your mail accounts are blocking the newsletter as Spam. If this is the case then you can continue to receive the newsletter by setting the sending account as valid sender (the account is "horseheadzine at gmail.com" .. change the at to an @ sign)

Thirteen Fires artwork preview and track listing

Thirteen fires - the new Bluehorses album - artwork has been signed off .... yipee

The album will be presented in a digipac so the artwork can be a little larger than your average CD. The cover image is wrapped around the equivalent of 3 covers

the front cover in greater detail.


The track listing for the album has been finalised as :-

1. Dance With Me
2. Ray of Light
3. Calling My Loves
4. The Ride
5. Chant
6. Raggle Taggle Gypsio
7. The Unknown
8. The Fool
9. Aberdulais
10. Waes Hael

Six of these tracks can be previewed on the Bluehorses myspace site

Album tracks released for preview

6 new tracks have been uploaded to the Bluehorses MySpace profile.

• Waes Hael
• Dance With Me
• Ray of Light
• Calling My Loves
• Aberdulais
• The Fool

The CD will be available from our main website store immediately after Xmas 2007 (and at the Yule Bashes in Derby, Winchester and Bilston nr. Birmingham)

They're back with a new sound and they ain't taking no prisoners! Welsh Celtic Rockers Bluehorses have gone back to their roots and come up with a new album - their 7th - that's bursting with metallic riffs, pounding double kick drums and electric violin.

Fronted by Irish/Welsh Gothess, Lizzie Prendergast, whose storming violin and vocals provide the Celtic flavour, the band have come out of the closet - and brought some skeletons with them!

Founder member and drummer Nic Waulker says "Over the last 15 years we've played numerous festivals in every country in Europe and Scandinavia, but compared to the stuff we've jammed in the privacy of Bluehorse Towers, we've always toned things down quite a bit.

Now thanks to the delights of YouTube, we've discovered there's a massive Folk Metal scene going on with fantastic bands like Korpiklaani and In Extremo and it's made us realise there's an awful lot of people around who want to hear the kind of music we've always really enjoyed playing.

We spent the summer at our studio up here in the Welsh mountains with Jay MacDonald our guitarist - who also played bass on Thirteen Fires - writing and recording the new album which has just gone to press, and we seriously think it's a bit of a stunning beast!

Xmas mini tour and Album launch

Bluehorses are playing 3 shows in 3 days in December, as part of the their traditional run up to Christmas.

This year however there is the added advantage of the launch of Thirteen Fires - the new album.


Friday 14th Dec - The Flowerpot in Derby
Saturday 15th Dec - The Railway in Winchester
Sunday 16th Dec - The Robin2 in Bilston

See you there

Skyclad video added

The video on the main bluehorses site has been changed to show Skyclad from the live DVD.

Don't forget to check out the other videos on the Bluehorses channel on YouTube which cover tunes from recent years, and some behind the scenes views from the band.

November Newsletter published

The Bluehorses November newsletter has been emailed to those who signed up on the main website front page.

The newsletter can be seen on the newsletter blog pages Magazine Newsletter from Bluehorses: October

If you did not receive it, and would like to do so in the future, or if you previously signed up but nothing has arrived in your in-box, please enter your mail address in the box on the main band web page. We also had a problem this time with people on some mail systems, it may be that your mail accounts are blocking the newsletter as Spam. If this is the case then you can continue to receive the newsletter by setting the sending account as valid sender (the account is "horseheadzine at gmail.com" .. change the at to an @ sign)

new foal in the stables

Baby Connor McDonald was born last night - 17th Oct 2007 at 18-45

Mother and Baby (8lbs 3.5oz) calm and doing well. Jay is very proud Daddy again.

No doubt pictures will be available soon in the gallery ;)

New video on website

During the Summer festivals a couple of new tunes were aired; one of these that went down rather well with all who were there, was "Dance With Me".

A new video has been compiled from the footage shot at the Peterborough Beer Festival show by Mike, and is now showing on YouTube, and there is also a view on the main band web page

Thomas Tripp - Cancelled

We have just been informed that the show at the Thomas Tripp in November has been canceled by the venue.

Disappointed does not do it justice ******

September Newsletter has been sent out

The Bluehorses September newsletter has been emailed to those who signed up on the main website front page.

The newsletter can be seen on the newsletter blog pages Magazine Newsletter from Bluehorses: August Procedings

If you did not receive it, and would like to do so in the future, or if you previously signed up but nothing has arrived in your in-box, please enter your mail address in the box on the main band web page. We also had a problem this time with people on some mail systems, it may be that your mail accounts are blocking the newsletter as Spam. If this is the case then you can continue to receive the newsletter by setting the sending account as valid sender (the account is "horseheadzine at gmail.com" .. change the at to an @ sign)