REVIVAL LIVE EAGCD120 also issued as strictly limited tour edition with four-track bonus disc and screensaver, EDGTE120

NEXUS - A Major Fancy

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A mixture of new songs and The legendary 1972 solo album, on CD re-recordings of old classics for the first time with three bonus tracks

Available from good record shops or direct from the International BJH Fan Club The Story So Far....

When it was announced in March 1998 that Barclay James Join us and get an exclusive CD single! Harvest were taking a sabbatical, fans could have been forgiven for thinking that it was time to bid farewell to the classically orientated melodic rock which the band had made their IBJHFC is the official organisation for BJH fans all over the world, trademark for more than thirty years. and now has members in over thirty different countries. The club is run on a voluntary basis by fans with the approval of and However, that proved to be far from the case, when the first of the promised solo their managers, and is aimed at serious music lovers who are otherwise unable projects from the band members made its appearance. Guitarist and singer John to find information about the band. New members are sent an exclusive booklet Lees, the man responsible for penning many of BJH’s best-known songs, with a complete BJH history and discography, a BJH postcard and (whilst stocks including “Mocking Bird”, “Hymn” and “Poor Man’s Moody Blues”, teamed up last) an exclusive CD single featuring otherwise unavailable recordings; again with , BJH’s original keyboard player. Together with members subsequently receive four issues per year of Nova Lepidoptera, the bassist Craig Fletcher and drummer Kevin Whitehead, Lees and Wolstenholme club magazine, with news, interviews, photos and articles about BJH. We also set out to produce a new studio album. The result was Nexus, which mixed new run a mail-order service supplying all currently available BJH and related CDs, T- takes on old favourites with brand new material, and proved beyond reasonable shirts and a number of exclusive items. doubt that the Barclay James Harvest sound which propelled the band to success in the seventies was alive and well. If you would like to join us, or obtain more information about the club, write to us or return the form below to:-

For Wolstenholme, it marked a return to the music business after eighteen years The International BJH Fan Club, Hamble Reach, Oslands Lane, in the wilderness, both metaphorically and physically - since first leaving Barclay Lower Swanwick, Southampton, SO31 7EG, UK James Harvest in 1979 and pursuing a brief solo career, his self-imposed exile had been spent knee-deep in ordure on an organic farm in deepest Wales! e-mail: [email protected] web site: www.bjharvest.co.uk

The Nexus album was well received by both fans and critics, and paved the way for a tour of Germany and Switzerland, with the Nexus band augmented by ------keyboard mæstro Jeff Leach. The gigs were a revelation – the sheer pleasure which John and Woolly derived from standing on stage together for the first time I would like to join The International Barclay James Harvest Fan Club. in twenty years was apparent, and the band’s enthusiasm communicated itself to I enclose cash, cheque, Postal Order or International Money Order, in Pounds the audience. The return of Woolly’s Mellotron recreated the archetypal BJH Sterling ONLY, please, made payable to The International BJH Fan Club, sound, whilst the new boys brought a new power and vitality to the proceedings, or please debit my Access/MasterCard/Eurocard/Visa card no.: not to mention a significant reduction in the average age of the band! The live set drew on every phase of BJH’s catalogue, from neglected masterpieces such as £8.00 UK “She Said” and “Galadriel”, through stalwarts like “Mocking Bird” and “Loving Is Easy” to newer songs like “River Of Dreams” and “Brave New World“. In January Expiry date: _____ / _____ £10.00 Europe 2001 three English dates were announced - the first by any members of Barclay £12.00 Elsewhere James Harvest for nine years! Signature: ______Barclay James Harvest Through the Eyes of John Lees represents a revival in many ways – the revival of an old partnership, the revival of songs which have been neglected for too many years, and, most of all, the revival of the spirit of Name: one of the most quintessentially English of rock institutions. Address:

In the meantime, BJH founder member Les Holroyd is also writing songs for a solo album, and his future plans are also expected to feature drummer , meaning that all four original members of the band will be active in making new music. The Barclay James Harvest story continues...