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Global Village Trucking Co. Free Music

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Global Village Trucking Co. Free Music

Global Village Trucking Co.

Effective period / Period of releases: 1975

Members: Jim Cuomo, John McKenzie, James Lascelles, John Etheridge, Colin Gibson, Simon Stewart, Jon Owen, Mike Medora, Peter Kirtley, Jeremy Lascelles

James Lascelles was a co-founder of the Global Village Trucking Company, known to its fans as "The Glob's", in the early 1970s.
The band, the road crew and their families all lived together in a Norfolk (UK) commune, and undertook numerous benefit concerts and free festivals, playing extended free-form jams, making them a well known UK live act. The band shunned record companies, but played on the Greasy Truckers Live at Dingwalls Dance Hall benefit album at Dingwalls in 1973, and in November 1974 they recorded an eponymous album at Rockfield Studios, Monmouth, Wales.

In 1973 the BBC made a documentary about Global Village Trucking Company, their communal living and their aim to make it without a record company. The BBC updated the documentary for the What Happened Next series, shown in May 2008, which included their first gig in 30 years. This re-union led to other Global Village gigs at Glastonbury 2008 and other festivals.

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