This is a list of the shows performed by Priory of Brion.

1999

July 23 Three Tuns, Bishop’s Castle, Shropshire
Aug 25 The Walls, Welsh Walls, Oswestry, Shropshire
Aug 26 The Jazz and Roots Club, Butter Market, Shrewsbury
Aug 28 Olbury Wells School, Bridnorth Folk Festival
Sep 10 The Kings Hotel, Newport, Gwent
Sep 25 Boardwalk, Sheffield
Oct 09 Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Ludlow
Oct 29 Queen Mary Ballroom, Dudley Zoo
Oct 30 Guildhall, Gloucester
Oct 31 The National Forest Folk Festival, Moira, Leicestershire
Nov 05 Stourbridge
Nov 12 Lichfield
Nov 13 The Red Lion Folk Club, Kings Heath, Birmingham
Nov 26 Oakengate Theatre, Telford
Nov 27 Central Station Nightclub, Wrexham
Dec 08 Stourbridge Town Hall, Stourbridge, West Midlands
Dec 17 Market Harborough Leisure Centre
Dec 18 The Zodiac, Oxford
Dec 23 Regis Hall, Cradley Heath, West Midlands

2000

Feb 08 Sugarmill, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent
Feb 11 The Beaufort Theatre, Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent
Feb 16 Junction, Cambridge
Feb 18 Fiddlers Night Club, Bedminster, Bristol

Mar 13 The Shed, Silver End, Brierley Hill
Mar 17 Bridgend Recreation Centre,Bridgend, Wales
Mar 18 Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, Wales
Mar 22 Ballroom, Nottingham
Mar 27 Voodooroom, Liverpool
Mar 31 Concert Hall, Reading (Cancelled)
Apr 03 The Roadmender, Northampton
Apr 07 The Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal
Apr 08 Dome, Whitley Bay
Apr 27 Ole Blues Festival, Bergen, Norway
Apr 27 Venue Maxime, Ole Blues Festival, Bergen, Norway
Apr 28 Venue Maxime, Ole Blues Festival, Bergen, Norway

May 03 Planet K nightclub, Manchester
May 12 Coal Exchange, Cardiff, Wales
May 20 The Cheese and Grain, Market Yard, Frome, Somerset
May 21 Phoenix Centre, Exeter
May 26 The Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire
May 31 Theatr Brycheineiog, Brecon, Powys, Wales

Jun 02 Castlegar Showgrounds, Galway, Ireland
Jun 03 Cork Munster Showgrounds, Ireland
Jun 05 HQ, Dublin, Ireland
Jun 06 HQ, Dublin, Ireland
Jun 21 Hexagon, Reading
Jun 23 Acoustic Tent, Glastonbury Festival
Jun 25 Folken, Stavanger, Norway
Jun 26 Rica Ishavshotel,Tromso, Norway
Jun 28 Rica Hell Hotel, Trondheim, Norway

Jul 01 Puistoblues, Jarvenpaa, Finland
Jul 09 Shrewsbury World Music Day, Shrewsbury Castle
Jul 12 Rhythm of the Lake, Como, Lombardia, Italy
Jul 14 Piazza Duomo (Pistoia Blues Festival), Pistoia, Italy
Jul 15 Festival Vilar de Mouros, Vilar de Mouros, Portugal
Jul 22 Nice Jazz Festival, France
Jul 24 Blue Balls Festival, Luzern, Switzerland
Jul 30 Cambridge Folk Festival

Aug 06 Dranouter Folk Festival, Belgium
Aug 11 Cropredy 2000 Festival, Banbury, Oxon
Aug 28 Ross-on-Wye International Festival

Sep 06 The Charlotte, Leicester
Sep 13 Central Station, Wrexham, Wales
Sep 18 Alcatraz Club, Milan, Italy
Sep 20 Enzimi Festival, Campo Lanciani (Tiburtina Railway Station), Rome, Italy
Sep 21 Molo Ichnusa, Cagliari, Sardinia
Sep 23 Vox Club, Nonantola (nr Modena), Italy
Sep 24 Piazza del Mercato (Market Place), Naples, Italy

Oct 04 The New Trinity Community Centre, Bristol
Oct 18 The Colosseum, Coventry
Oct 19 The Woughton Centre, Milton Keynes
Oct 23 De Melkweg, Amsterdam, Holland

Nov 12 Ancienne Belgique, Brussels
Nov 13 Atelier, Luxembourg
Nov 15 La Cigale, Paris, France
Nov 21 Mylos Club, Thessaloniki, Greece
Nov 22 Mylos Club, Thessaloniki, Greece
Nov 24 Rodon Club, Athens, Greece
Nov 25 Rodon Club, Athens, Greece

Dec 14 Victoria Community Centre, Crewe
Dec 17 Darwin Suite, Assembley Rooms, Derby
Dec 21 Wilfrun Hall, Wolverhampton

Excerpted from ROOTS magazine, Aug/Sep 2000

The name of the band encorporates a reference to a society which was an offshoot of the Knight’s Templar called The Priory of Zion and the film The Life of Brian. An approximate explanation of which might be; A kind of secret society not to be taken too seriously or over revered. He explains that he and Kevyn Gammond, now a college lecturer, have remained ‘best mates’ since they were in The Band of Joy together in the mid-sixties. Discussing how, on the music scene, everything seemed to go back to that era Robert said to Kevyn “We used to do that. Let’s do it again.” Kevyn knew some really good musicians, ex students, who were starting to teach and do mixing and dance music, so they had a rehearsal in a barn and that was the beginning of the Priory of Brion.

Enhancing the air of mystery which surrounded the band in the early days, Robert created alter egos for the musicians by giving them false names and telling brief stories about their new characters. Thus Kevyn Gammond, lead guitarist became Carlisle Egypt. Andy Edwards, drums, was usually known as the man in the pointed hat and crossed sticks - Alistair Crowley. Paul Timothy, keyboards and acoustic guitar, generally referred to as TIm to avoid confusion with Paul Whetton, often became Owyn Glendwr - fresh from some border skirmish local to the current venue. Paul cool, calm and collected Whetton, bass guitar, became the enigmatic Brian without whom the whole adventure would have been impossible. Occasionally names have changed, notably when ‘Brian’ underwent a mystical transformation on a journey up the Norewgian fjords and became the terrifying Eric Bloodaxe. More recently the band have been referred to by their (alleged) ‘real’ names but we have yet to be told who the vocalist is.