I have no vested interest in this music other than a desire to enable people to hear something they may have missed out on by coming in when they did. The version I uploaded is a direct transfer of one of Peter Bellamy's home-made cassettes from 25 years ago at least. That it plays at all is miracle enough, but I offered it by way of pertinent lo-fi archaelogy in the absence (at the time) of anything better. I was well aware of the fluctuations in pitch, but felt this added to the charm of the original artefact; the only editing I did was to fix a loud pop at one point and fade it out the end which just cuts out on the Bellamy cassette. Personally, I think the lo-fi nature of this cassette stands as a moving testimony to the status PB enjoyed in his life-time - a man moved to effectively bootlegging his own recordings to sell on cheap, unbranded cassettes at his ever-dwindling gigs in the face of the terminal indifference of the folk scene as a whole. With respect of this, please, can any future discussion omit my name from the proceedings? Call it The Bellamy Cassette Edition, edited, no doubt, by his own fair hand.

Meanwhile, here's some equally low quality video footage from the Maritime England Suite + an incomplete rendition of The Liner She's A Lady from the Bellamy VHS I have in my keeping. The edits are as on the tape (Bellamy's??) & the quality likewise. If someone has got anything better, please, bring it on, otherwise - just enjoy it for what it is.

Peter Bellamy VHS Part Three : Two Sea Songs