Clive Palmer, Robin Williamson and Mike Heron on the cover of the first Incredible String Band album The Incredible String Band were one of the most influential bands of the Sixties but their roots ...

Looking back at the British rock scene of the late 1960s, it's hard to believe that bands as diametrically opposed as Pink Floyd and Incredible String Band could share a concert bill. Floyd were ...

Mike Heron A couple of years ago I looked up and realised that my musical output had dwindled and now consisted mainly of performances of Incredible String Band material with the Glasgow band ...

Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending: An Incredible String Band Compendium is edited by Adrian Whittaker and available from Strange Attractor Press now "[Liking the ISB] was like joining an exclusive ...

“These little things out in the woods are so magical,” says Matt Berninger during his Friday afternoon Uncut Q&A, and all around him End Of The Road takes the challenge head on. Just a short time ...

Final trawl of the vaults turns up a double CD’s worth of lost sounds by the Scottish folk starsailors Modern ears frequently can’t get past the more frivolous side of The Incredible String Band: the ...

Mike Heron’s memoir of the hippy trend-setters shows their extraordinary influence on the 60s music scene. By Mark Ellen The “puffed-out, muscle-bound, throbbing package of antagonistic vitality” that ...

I just squandered two or three precious should-be-working hours trundling around music-streaming sites looking for “The Banks of Sweet Italy,” my all-time favorite Incredible String Band song. Dotty, ...

Looking back at the British rock scene of the late 1960s, it's hard to believe that bands as diametrically opposed as Pink Floyd and Incredible String Band could share a concert bill. Floyd were ...

Just a couple years after the Beatles raised eyebrows with a single sitar, this Scottish combo made two of the most fearlessly and promiscuously eclectic folk albums of all time. The 5000 Spirits or ...