Dr. Strangely Strange

Dr. Strangely Strange were an experimental Irish folk group, formed in Dublin in 1967 by Tim Booth (vocals and guitar) (born Timothy Booth, 6 September 1943, County Kildare, Ireland) and Ivan Pawle bass (born 17 August 1943, England) and keyboards).

Career

Soon they teamed with multi-instrumentalist Tim Goulding (vocals and keyboards) (born Timothy Goulding, 15 May 1945, Hatch Street, Dublin), an aspiring painter, and began living and rehearsing in a house owned by Goulding's girlfriend, backing vocalist Orphan Annie, which its tenants nicknamed 'The Orphanage'. After signing with the Incredible String Band's producer and manager Joe Boyd, they debuted in 1969 with Kip of the Serenes. The album was produced by Boyd. While on tour with Fotheringay, they enlisted drummer Neil Hopwood, and later in the year appeared on the Incredible String Band's Changing Horses album.

After 1970's Heavy Petting, Dr. Strangely Strange began falling apart: Goulding left to enter to a Buddhist monastery, while Pawle and Booth teamed with Gay and Terry Woods for a brief tour. The group disbanded In May 1971, after playing a concert with Al Stewart at London's Drury Lane Theatre.^[1] They reunited in 1973 for an Irish tour, and briefly reconvened again in the early 1980s. Eventually Booth established a second Orphanage which became a springboard for a new generation of Irish rock, helping launch the careers of Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott, Gary Moore and others.^[2]

The band reformed with the original members to record a third album in 1996.^[3]

On 10 January 2008, the band announced that they were to reform for a special homecoming gig to take place in the Sugar Club on Leeson Street, Dublin, Ireland on 1 March 2008.^[4] In February 2009, Hux Records reissued Kip of the Serenes as a Collectors' Edition with four bonus tracks.^[5]

On 19 July 2009 the band participated in the Witchseason Weekender (featuring artists from Joe Boyd's Witchseason production company) at The Barbican, London. They performed a free concert on the foyer stage and then participated in the full Sunday evening concert entitled "The Music Of The Incredible String Band".^{[citation needed]}

Discography

• Kip of the Serenes (Island Records, 1969) - reissued with bonus tracks, 2009
• Heavy Petting (Vertigo Records, 1970)
• Alternative Medicine: The Difficult Third Album (1997)
• Halcyon Days (Hux Records, Released 16 June 2007)

References

External links

• Artist Direct website
• Band biography at Ace Records
• Information on the band by former member Tim Goulding
• Link to Gay Woods' website, where she mentions her and Terry Woods' brief membership of the band
• Dr. Strangely Strange at MySpace