I received this email today and I know there are some big fans here...


Hi,

I hope this finds you well ... !

In anticipation and advance of our new album of all new original
songs coming in 2017, we announce the release of 'To Try For The
Sun' - a 20 track CD of previously unreleased recordings.

The announcement comes with great sadness at the news that we
lost our wonderful and extraordinary drummer Michael Wackford on
October 25th 2016.

You can read all about the release - coming on November 18th 2016
- and pre-order at a special price here at:
http://www.starryeyedandlaughing.com/Starry_Rec_ToTryForTheSun.htm

Many thanks again for all your support, and as ever, if you wish
to be removed from the mailing list, please see the note below
about unsubscribing.

Very best wishes,
Tony Poole - Aurora
http://www.starryeyedandlaughing.com/

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Yes, I meant to flag that up as well. I bought both the other titles that were for sale 'Forever Young' and the 'That Was Now and This is Then' 2 disc set comprising their two original albums. Both are sublime so I pre-ordered this new disc of old material as soon as the email came through.

I imagine that like its predecessors, 'To Try For The Sun', rather than being a CD is a pro-press CDR. The packaging is professinally done. If you like the Byrds, the 'Forever Young' disc at least, is an absolute must have. Both the sound quality and the song quality are brilliant. You won't believe a 70s British group could have sounded so convicingly Byrd-ian! What the early Badfinger were to the Beatles, SE&L were to the Byrds.

PM

Hiya guys,yeh i got an e-mail telling me about this new release of old recordings a couple of weeks ago,i HAD to pre-order as the other cds that Paul has mentioned are fabulous,a MUST for Byrds fans in my opinion as theres plenty of chiming guitar parts and some fab vocals.Another talented band to fall through the cracks...but its great their music is being appreciated 40 years later.Magic!!!

I have had the 'To Try For The Sun' collection for a while but only just got round to playing it yesterday. All I can say is wow!! It's a 20 track collection of covers and originals recorded in the ealy mid 70s but you'd never know it, thay all sound like the band wrote them!

This is just sublime as are their other collections on Aurora, but I am utterly entranced by this set. There's covers of The Searchers'When You Walk In The Room' that sound like the Byrds from 1965 and Gene Clarke's 'Echoes' and one or two others that have the Byrds psychedleic sound. There's Stephen Stills's / Buffalo Springfield's 'For What It's Worth' but with superb guitar work that really draws the song out into a much longer peice than the original. Then there's the country rock Byrds but so subtelly blended with the folk rock sound it sounds even better than that!

If the Chestefield Kings were the Rolling Stones in another universe, then Starry Eyed and Laughing were The Byrds in that same universe! I could listen to this collection all day, it just keeps on giving. At 77 minutes it also makes me wonder if there's still more in the vaults? If you like that blended vocal and twelve string elecric guitar sound the Byrds did so well, you absolutely should own this - plus it's only cheap and a proper CD this time not a CDR! What's not to like.

PM

I can echo all said about this group I purchased their cd from the band site very quick delivery and a great cd

just purchased Starry Eyed And Laughing-Forever Young from amazon great Byrdsy album well worth £8

Tales Of Justine

there's an interesting historical link to the above band and se&l.

' ...Daltrey went on to record some singer-songwriter demos and later formed a band called Carillion, who played a Byrds-influenced brand of rock and supported David Bowie on his Ziggy Stardust tour. Daltrey departed when no record contract was forthcoming and Carillion later evolved into Starry Eyed and Laughing.'

thanks to angi

I see their only album on amazon uk is 30 pounds.😤

Ha! don't get it from amazon, then.

go to http://www.starryeyedandlaughing.com/
and get it from the band's website. click on the recordings link.

All the best,
Steve.

A few days ago Tony Poole told me
'In the pipeline is a live concert DVD, and the current plan is to include a free 'live recordings' CD of stuff that isn't hi-fi but possibly of interest historically (!)'