Global Village Trucking Company

Global Village Trucking Company, known to its fans as "The Glob's", in the early 1970s, was a group co-founded by James Lascelles, who is a first cousin once removed to Queen Elizabeth II and in line of succession to the British throne.
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.
== Links to Peel ==
Peel was enough of a fan of the group, with their Grateful Dead-influenced hippy lifestyle and music, to invite them to do three sessions during the mid-70's. He was sympathetic to bands who, like them, tried to produce their own records without the help of the major record companies (others who did this in the mid-70s included Be-Bop Deluxe and Back Door)  However, he doesn't seem to have played any records by them, either during their lifespan or afterwards. He later wrote a piece highly critical of upper-class East Anglian hippies (reprinted in the Olivetti Chronicles) but it's not known if the band were involved with the events he described.
John Mackensie (bass) went on to play with fellow Peel session band Man and Steve Hillage (Gong, etc).
== Sessions ==
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. Recorded: 1974-04-11. First Broadcast: 02 May 1974
*Applie Pie / The Sun Can Always Catch You With Your Trousers Down / Watch Out There's A Mind About
2. Recorded: 1974-10-24. First Broadcast: 07 November 1974
*Sky Train / On The Judgement Day / Down In The Lowlands
3. Recorded: 1975-05-27. First Broadcast: 09 June 1975
*Love Will Find A Way / Cock Of The Rocks / I Never Knew
== Other Shows Played ==
*None according to available playlists
== See Also==
*Gigography 1972
== External Links ==
*Wikipedia (James Lascelles)
*Discogs
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