On "We died in Hell...", June Tabor recorded outstanding versions of two great Bill Caddick songs - "The Reaper" and "Aquaba". To update information on some of the other people named in the thread, Kristien Dehollander has a restaurant, De Halve Maan, near Dranouter and Piet Chielens is now Co-ordinator of the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ieper. In 2004, June and some of the other musicians who had contributed to the Peace Concerts Passendale performances - Coope Boyes & Simpson, Belgian musicians Willem Vermandere, Koen Decauter and Patrick Riguelle, Bram Vermeulen from The Netherlands and Thomas Friz from Germany joined the French band Une Anche Passe to record a second Passchendale Suite, "Seeds of Peace" written by Laurent Audomarde of Une Anche. It was never released in England but some copies may still be available on the net or via the In Flanders Fields museum shop. Coope Boyes & Simpson's website has some photos and more details about the Peace Concerts performances they've been involved with.
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