Robert Plant & Priory of Brion mega-rare STUDIO recordings

[David Estrada]

"Curse the evil woman", "Bitter blue morning dew"   After Robert Plant was finished working with Jimmy Page in 1998, he went home to rest. His next album wasn't until Dreamland in 2002, with 'The Strange Sensation'; in the interim years he got involved in his local community, becoming a music patron for his local Kidderminster College, and convened some old friends and some music students from Kidderminster College to form a new band, 'The Priory of Brion'. The name is a nod to Dan Brown's 'Davinci code' and 'Angels and Demons' books which were very big at the time, in which a centuries-old religious conspiracy is traced to a secret society known as the 'Priory of Zion'. It was also a nod to Monty Python's 'Life of Brian'. Priory of Brion included Kevyn Gammond in its ranks, who was a senior music lecturer at Kidderminster College, and who had also played in the original 'Band of Joy' in the 60's, with Plant and John Bonham. Priory of Brion was a short-lived project, they did do a short tour of Europe but they never released an album. Two studio tracks were released however, very quietly and in very limited numbers, through compilation albums released by Mighty Atom Smasher Records, a label run by Gammond, which sold through Kidderminster College's web shop. The label primarily featured student talent and was initially started to give 'music industry experience' to Kidderminster College music students. Since their release about 20 years ago, these two songs seem to have sunk without trace. At present, this is the only place on the internet you can hear them or even read about them.

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RP mega-rare STUDIO recordings.rar 67.2 MB

[Wes Meyette]

anyone have this in flac/wave?  needle drop?  great find, thank you david

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[ross martini]

Thank you, David, for these Priory of Brion tracks!

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[killingfloorman10256]

Thanks David

[Rafael de la Vega]

Thanks for finding this David. Do you know if the third MAS compilation with the song "Flames" is available anywhere?

"The second MAS volume, released in November 2003, included another Priory of Brion studio outtake called "Flames," although the track was attributed to Johnny Volcano. This cover song was originally recorded by Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera."

Regards,

Rafael

[Rafael de la Vega]

Found!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yExJuT0IapA

[Nite Owl]

Thanks for this -- I have tried to find these tracks without success in the past, good to hear them at last.

The description from the Youtube uploader isn't quite correct, though: The name 'The Priory of Brion' cannot have been influenced by the two Dan Brown books since it pre-dates both of them.