“Everything was going up its own jacksie!" Lindisfarne's down-to-earth approach saw them not always aligned with prog's loftier ideals in 1973

Lindisfarne 1973.

Back in 2013, Prog looked further back to 1973, bang in the middle of the genre's first golden era - a year of The Dark Side Of The Moon and Tales From Topographic Oceans in a feature we decided to call Battle For The Planet Of The Capes! For that we also spoke to Ray Jackson, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist of Goerdie folk rockers Lindisfarne, whose position on the legendary Charisma Records 'Six Bob' Tour with Genesis and Van der Graaf Generator had thrust them firmly into the progressive rock spotlight...

Lindisfarne had toured with Yes in the States in 1973 and had known the band for years. Although their rootsy, folk-tinged music was quite different to Yes, they’d enjoyed commercial success in both the UK singles and album charts. They had briefly broken up in 1973, before the Yes tours, partly as a result of record company pressure