Lea Nicholson Discographie

Lea Nicholson - Horsemusic

Lea Nicholson + Stan Ellison - God Bless The Unemployed

Lea Nicholson - God Bless The Unemployed/Piece Of Cake

Lea Nicholson - Lazy Afternoon/Sorry About The Phone Stephanie

Lea Nicholson and The Rawtenstall Concertina Band - The Dambuster March/Southampton

Lea Nicholson - The Concertina Record

Lea Nicholson - The Concertina Tapes

Lea Nicholson - The Concertina Record

Compilations and with other Artists

Deep Lancashire - Songs And Ballads Of The Industrial North West

Brothers And Sisters Are Watching You

John Renbourn - The Lady + The Unicorne

John Renbourn - The John Renbourn Sampler

Keith Cross + Peter Ross - Bored Civilians

Steve Tilston - Collection

Tommy Makem - In The Dark Green Woods

Steve Ashley - Stroll On

Steve Ashley - Old Rock´N´Roll / Fire And Wine

Steve Ashley - Speedy Return

Spriguns - Time Will Pass

Robin Dransfield - Tidewave

Tim Hart + Friends - Drunken Sailor + other Kids Songs

VA: Transatlantic Story

VA: Transatlantic Folk Box

VA: Scarborough Fair - The Best Of

Steve Ashley - Stroll On Revisited

Steve Ashley - The Test Of Time

Steve Tilston - Reaching Out

Robin Dransfield - A Ligther Touch

VA: English International - A History of the English Concertina

VA: Three Score & Ten - A Voice To The People

Tim Hart - My Very Favourite Nurse

Specials

Single Testpressing Of God Bless The Unemployed

The Lea Nicholson Story issued for the English International CD

I began playing concertina at the beginning of 1965. I had been given a concertina and told i could keep it if i learnt to play it. I got an Alf Edwards Concertina Tutor from somewhere and picked up the fingering and the beginnings of musical theory from that. My main interest at that time was folk music and within six months i was playing in local folk clubs. It was a good time to be buying a concertina since, with the exception of the folk revival, interest in the concertina had just about died out. A concertina could be picked up in a junk shop for three or four pounds. The going rate for an Aeola was five pounds. If the box was in old pitch then a friend of ours in Burnley put us on to Tommy Williams in Battersea who would do a full retune for three pounds. I don´t think the prices really started to go up until the beginning of the 70s.

My first recording came out at the end of the 60s, this was a track on the Topic compilation of Lancashire Folk Songs called Deep Lancashire. This is still available, I believe. Other recordings included Horsemusic, God Bless The Unemployed and The Concertina Record albums. There were also three singles God Bless the Unemployed (Transatlantic), Lazy Afternoon (Virgin), and The Dam Busters March (Virgin). Lazy Afternoon was a minor hit in France, and probably the closet i will get to my fifteen minutes of fame.

I did a lot of session playing and there are lot´s of other recordings, many of wich i can´t remember. More information is available from Kai Willems who keeps a discograhy at http://home.arcor.de/kai63/lnicholson.html

I played with among others Mike Oldfield, John Renbourn, Richard Thompson, Russ Ballard, Steve Ashley, Robin Dransfield and some BBC Philharmonic Orchestra or other doing William Walton´s The Bells (wich contains about 16 bars written for concertina somewhere near the end).

I stopped playing in 1992, but when Alan Day rang me at the beginning of this year and asked me to contribute a couple of tracks to the English International CD, I bought a Lachenal Excelsior with a big hole in the bellows off Ebay for 500 GBP, and a fine repairer from Ipswich called Mike Acott fixed it for me.

The tracks included on this collection are archive tracks from the mid 80s, and were kindly supplied by Vic Smith. These were played on a Wheatstone tenor treble Aeola, an unusal instrument in that it went down to the G note on the bottom line of the bass clef.

March in D (disc 2, Tr 17) (J.S. Bach arr. L. Nichaolson)

The barley and the rye (Disc 2, Tr 18) (trad arr L. Nicholson)

These tracks were recorded for a Radio Brighton broadcast on 26th January 1986.

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