Clive Palmer, Robin Williamson and Mike Heron on the cover of the first Incredible String Band album The Incredible String Band were one of the most influential bands of the Sixties but their roots ...

Looking back at the British rock scene of the late 1960s, it's hard to believe that bands as diametrically opposed as Pink Floyd and Incredible String Band could share a concert bill. Floyd were ...

Mike Heron A couple of years ago I looked up and realised that my musical output had dwindled and now consisted mainly of performances of Incredible String Band material with the Glasgow band ...

In 2007 a friend I had met in the US came to stay for a few days. She put some music she thought I might like on my laptop. Two of these albums turned out to be two of the most important things that ...

“These little things out in the woods are so magical,” says Matt Berninger during his Friday afternoon Uncut Q&A, and all around him End Of The Road takes the challenge head on. Just a short time ...

Final trawl of the vaults turns up a double CD’s worth of lost sounds by the Scottish folk starsailors Modern ears frequently can’t get past the more frivolous side of The Incredible String Band: the ...

Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending: An Incredible String Band Compendium is edited by Adrian Whittaker and available from Strange Attractor Press now "[Liking the ISB] was like joining an exclusive ...

Looking back at the British rock scene of the late 1960s, it's hard to believe that bands as diametrically opposed as Pink Floyd and Incredible String Band could share a concert bill. Floyd were ...

Just a couple years after the Beatles raised eyebrows with a single sitar, this Scottish combo made two of the most fearlessly and promiscuously eclectic folk albums of all time. The 5000 Spirits or ...

Seven years ago, reviewing an unknown young cellist's Wigmore Hall debut, Robert Cowan wound up with the words: "He will surely become a significant presence in our musical life." Tonight, that ...