We're very happy to announce that pre-orders are now open for the fully
revised and redesigned Be Glad For The Song Has No Ending: An
Incredible String Band Compendium, edited by Adrian
Whittaker.
Commonly regarded as the "ISB Bible", this 700+ page
book will be available as a collectors’ hardback edition
featuring debossed boards, ribbon, and a variant dust jacket in an edition
of 300 copies.
A standard trade paperback will also be availble from our web store and
later from all good book shops.
We're expecting copies to ship by the last week of October.
Our collectors’ hardback edition is limited to 350 copies. It features
a ribbon, debossed boards and a variant dust jacket. It also comes with a
chapbook containing all of Raymond Greenoaken and Allan Frewin’s ISB
comix, with a card signed by the artist.
A wide-ranging collection of interviews, anecdotes, essays, and ephemera
concerning one of the most enigmatic bands to emerge from the 1960s psych-folk
scene.
First published in 2003 and long out of print, Be Glad For The Song Has No
Ending: An Incredible String Band Compendium is the definitive book about the
ISB. Containing a wealth of interviews, essays, and ephemera from the
band’s brief but tangled history, this new revised and expanded edition
includes two new pieces by ISB member Rose Simpson on Witchseason
Productions’ idiosyncratic offices and on recording with the ISB in the
Sound Techniques studio, as well as interviews with Neil Tennant of Pet Shop
Boys, folk musician Alasdair Roberts, and Ossian Brown of Coil and Cyclobe.
Contributors include Mike Heron, Robin Williamson, Rowan Williams, ISB
manager and producer Joe Boyd, Andy Roberts, Billy Connolly, and Raymond
Greenoaken.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Adrian Whittaker has written for The Wire, Shindig!, and Record Collector.
In 2003 he edited Be Glad: An Incredible String Band Compendium. In 2019 he
published Fitting Pieces To The Jigsaw, the definitive book on Irish psych-folk
band Dr. Strangely Strange. He has also written and presented a number of music
history documentaries for Resonance FM.
REVIEW
“Encyclopaedic in scope, passionate in tone, this book is a
minotaur’s labyrinth of information about one of the most remarkable
groups in 20th century music. Be glad, for everything you need to know is
here.” (Rob Young, The Wire)
