Price: £31.99
Format: Boxset
Artist: Woolly Wolstenholme (& Maestoso)
CatNo: ECLEC72636
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Woolly Wolstenholme Barclay James Harvest Strange Worlds boxset
Strange Worlds - A Collection 1980 – 2010 is a 7CD box set containing every album by Barclay James Harvest founder Woolly Wolstenholme and his band Maestoso
 
In addition to the official solo albums  - all of which have been unavailable for some years - the set features a 20 track CD called The Unlost Works – Demos & Fragments, which consists of previously unreleased recordings. 
 
The clamshell box includes an illustrated book with a 2018 essay written by BJH authorities Keith and Monika Domone. 
 
A fitting tribute to the multi-faceted music of the much-missed Stuart “Woolly” Wolstenholme. 
Disc One
 
MAESTOSO (1980)
 
1. SAIL AWAY
2. QUIET ISLANDS
3. A PROSPECT OF WHITBY
4. LIVES ON THE LINE
5. PATRIOTS
6. GATES OF HEAVEN (14/18)
7. AMERICAN EXCESS
8. MAESTOSO – A HYMN IN THE ROOF OF THE WORLD
9. WAVEFORM
 
BONUS TRACKS
 
10. EVEN THE NIGHT (LIVE IN VIENNA)
11. HAS TO BE A REASON (LIVE IN VIENNA)
 
Disc Two
 
BLACK BOX RECOVERED (2004)
 
1. DECEIVERS ALL
2. HAS TO BE A REASON
3. DOWN THE LINE
4. ALL GET BURNED
5. TOO MUCH, TOO LOUD, TOO LATE
6. EVEN THE NIGHT
7. THE WILL TO FLY
8. SUNDAY BELLS
9. OPEN
10. WHY REMAIN
 
11. SAIL AWAY (DEMO)
12. QUIET ISLANDS (DEMO)
13. AMERICAN EXCESS (LIVE IN VIENNA)
14. LIVES ON THE LINE (LIVE IN VIENNA)
15. DECEIVERS ALL (LIVE IN VIENNA)
16. BOOTHAM PARK ELEGY
 
Disc Three
 
ONE DROP IN A DRY WORLD (2004)
 
1. THE BELLS, THE BELLS!
2. BLOOD AND BONES
3. A WAITING GAME
4. IT’S YOU (SIXTIES MIX)
5. SOUK
6. ONE DROP IN A DRY WORLD
7. ANSS
8. THE END OF THE ROAD
9. EXPLORERS
10. 2 AM
11. THE STARVING PEOPLE OF THE WORLD ALL THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME
12. CARPET
 
Disc Four
 
FIDDLING MEANLY – LIVE AT THE MEAN FIDDLER (2004)
 
1. ABENDROT
2. THE BELLS, THE BELLS!
3. DECEIVERS ALL
4. HAS TO BE A REASON
5. IN SEARCH OF ENGLAND
6. THE IRON MAIDEN
7. SUNDAY BELLS
8. POOR WAGES
9. THE POET / AFTER THE DAY
10. THE WILL TO FLY
11. A PROSPECT OF WHITBY
12. HARBOUR
13. EARLY MORNING
14. BIG ORGAN END
 
Disc Five
 
GRIM (2005)
 
1. COMING SOON TO A CINEMA NEAR YOU
2. THROUGH A STORM
3. LOVE IS...
4. A LARK
5. THAT’S THE PRICE YOU PAY
6. THE ICEMAN COMETH
7. HEBDEN BRIDGE
8. LOOT
9. HARP AND CARP
10. BIRDS
11. LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION
12. ABENDROT
13. MARSCH BURLESKE
14. PAS DE DEUX
15. A SCENE FROM A LONDON FLAT
 
Disc Six
 
CATERWAULING (2007)
 
1. CATERWAULING
2. SOLDIER OF FORTUNE
3. THE ROAD TO NOWHERE
4. MATILDA YARROW
5. THE COLLECTOR
6. CLOSURE
7. ALWAYS
8. I DON’T LIKE YOU
9. TONIGHT COULD BE THE NIGHT
10. SHOES
11. STRANGE WORLDS
12. QUICKSAND
13. BLOSSOM HILL
14. PILLS
 
Disc Seven
 
THE UNLOST WORKS: DEMOS & FRAGMENTS (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
 
1. YOUR STARTER FOR TEN
2. THE STREETS OF THIS TOWN
3. BRIAN MACLEAN
4. THE ANGELUS
5. FAITH, HOPE & CHARITY
6. HIRAETH
7. THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE WORLD
8. WAGON
9. MADRIGAL
10. A STOLEN LIFE
11. ALONE
12. BILL SONG
13. A FUNNY KIND OF BLUE
14. DAY SONG
15. SLEEPING
16. ROMANZE
17. IT’S A DREAM (ROBBIE’S SONG)
18. WINTER WORLD (FOR CHLOE)
19. BETHLEHEM
20. DEATH IN OLDHAM