The Diamond Family Archive

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Winter 00:00 Tools
Here I Go Again (Whitesnake cover) 00:00 Tools
Mother 00:00 Tools
A Golden Fire 00:00 Tools
Sleeping Under Stars 00:00 Tools
Happy Families 00:00 Tools
Crows 00:00 Tools
A Better Place 00:00 Tools
Romeo and Juliet 00:00 Tools
You Give Love a Bad Name (Bon Jovi cover) 00:00 Tools
Volcano 00:00 Tools
Valley Girl 00:00 Tools
She's Always A Woman (Billy Joel cover) 00:00 Tools
Walk of Life (Dire Straits cover) 00:00 Tools
Lazy About the Things that Matter 00:00 Tools
Runaround Sue 00:00 Tools
The Main Town 00:00 Tools
Follow (Don't) 00:00 Tools
Close to the Grave 00:00 Tools
Speed 00:00 Tools
For the Memory Of 00:00 Tools
In Mind (Caroline) 00:00 Tools
hateful 00:00 Tools
Call in 00:00 Tools
Romeo And Juliet (Dire Straits cover) 00:00 Tools
My Lonesome Pine 00:00 Tools
Here I Go Again (live 29/12/07) 00:00 Tools
I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling (live 29/12/07) 00:00 Tools
Islands In The Stream (live 29/12/07) 00:00 Tools
Caroline (live 29/12/07) 00:00 Tools
Franklin 00:00 Tools
The Wanderer 00:00 Tools
The Wanderer (Dion cover) 00:00 Tools
A Change Is Gonna Come 00:00 Tools
Telegram Sam 00:00 Tools
Brothers In Arms (live 29/12/07) 00:00 Tools
Down At The Landing (live 29/12/07) 00:00 Tools
Down At The Landing People 00:00 Tools
A Better Place (live) 00:00 Tools
Walk Of Life (live 29/12/07) 00:00 Tools
The Wanderer (live 29/12/07) 00:00 Tools
Walk Of Life 00:00 Tools
walkoflife 00:00 Tools
Always A Woman 00:00 Tools
Dark And Lonely Street 00:00 Tools
Take It Easy 00:00 Tools
Spirit In The Sky 00:00 Tools
Old Time Religion 00:00 Tools
Take Me Back 00:00 Tools
A Raven 00:00 Tools
Brothers in Arms (Dire Straits cover) 00:00 Tools
The Old Church (Live on Radio Blau, Leipzig 26/09/09) 00:00 Tools
Spade 00:00 Tools
Bones 00:00 Tools
Who Owns The Twilight 00:00 Tools
Islands In The Stream (Bee Gees cover) 00:00 Tools
Good Mornin Lil Schoolgirl 00:00 Tools
A Big Black Dog (Live on Radio Blau, Leipzig 26/09/09) 00:00 Tools
Here I Go Again 00:00 Tools
The Morning Singing O 00:00 Tools
Banjo Woods 00:00 Tools
porch song 00:00 Tools
Eight Miles High 00:00 Tools
Tuesday's Plan 00:00 Tools
Down at the Landing (John Lee Hooker cover) 00:00 Tools
i harpie 00:00 Tools
Pear Tree 00:00 Tools
Spring Pt 1a 00:00 Tools
Flood Pool 00:00 Tools
dusty 00:00 Tools
mule 00:00 Tools
Caroline (Status Quo cover) 00:00 Tools
i was dead 00:00 Tools
Making Friends 00:00 Tools
happyfamilies 00:00 Tools
A Radio 00:00 Tools
The Death of Kung Fu 00:00 Tools
These Hands For Clapping 00:00 Tools
Out The Back 00:00 Tools
We Get Along 00:00 Tools
Spring Pt 2 00:00 Tools
Lakeland Pt 3 00:00 Tools
3 runaround sue 00:00 Tools
You Give Love a Bad Name 00:00 Tools
Spring Pt 1c 00:00 Tools
Monday Pt 5 00:00 Tools
Go 00:00 Tools
greenway 00:00 Tools
Here Is The Corn 00:00 Tools
dead swan 00:00 Tools
Spade (live 25/09/07) 00:00 Tools
Telegram Sam (live 25/09/07) 00:00 Tools
Let In 00:00 Tools
Spring Pt 3b 00:00 Tools
Lock Up 00:00 Tools
The White Willow 00:00 Tools
Tuesdays Plan 00:00 Tools
Bottle 00:00 Tools
dorset 00:00 Tools
From A to B 00:00 Tools
A To B 00:00 Tools
Coo Coo 00:00 Tools
Live roller 00:00 Tools
A Golden Fire (live 25/09/07) 00:00 Tools
Idumea 00:00 Tools
05 The Cuckoo 00:00 Tools
Kings Highway 00:00 Tools
3 hateful 00:00 Tools
Mother (live 25/09/07) 00:00 Tools
Winter (live 25/09/07) 00:00 Tools
Peggy-O 00:00 Tools
Good Animals Are We 00:00 Tools
02 I Have Forgotten 00:00 Tools
04 Blackwaterside 00:00 Tools
05 Bright Lights 00:00 Tools
Sleeping Under Stars (live 25/09/07) 00:00 Tools
Teigngrace 00:00 Tools
03 Idumea 00:00 Tools
End Of The Road 00:00 Tools
Lazy 00:00 Tools
The Black Prince 00:00 Tools
Greenfield2 00:00 Tools
01 The King's Highway 00:00 Tools
Islands In The Stream (Kenny Loggins/Dolly Parton cover) 00:00 Tools
Black Autumn 00:00 Tools
She's Always A Woman 00:00 Tools
01 Who owns the twighlight 00:00 Tools
telegram_sam 00:00 Tools
Raise Your Fists To Heaven 00:00 Tools
Hawthorn and Blackthorn 00:00 Tools
The Opposite of Blind 00:00 Tools
I Hear A Sweet Voice Calling 00:00 Tools
then it rained part 2 00:00 Tools
Hold Me 00:00 Tools
Light the Lamp 00:00 Tools
I Lied 00:00 Tools
Glue 00:00 Tools
I Am Blind 00:00 Tools
05 eden 00:00 Tools
March 00:00 Tools
Spirit In The Sky (Norman Greenbaum cover) 00:00 Tools
Mountain Lions 00:00 Tools
Hopeless Night 00:00 Tools
Down At The Landing People (John Lee Hooker) 00:00 Tools
03 Glue 00:00 Tools
A Change Is Gonna Come (Sam Cooke) 00:00 Tools
The Hawthorn & The Blackthorn 00:00 Tools
Ye Poor & Maimed 00:00 Tools
Down at the Landing 00:00 Tools
02 Poor and maimed 00:00 Tools
04 The heart waltzes 00:00 Tools
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Born in Creekmoor, Dorset to deeply religious parents, Laurence, as a child, ended up living with a new-age Christian community in New Zealand and then ended up, luckily, on the south coast of England via Universities in Cornwall and France. Laurence was the songwriter for Brighton based band chimp. They released two albums that received praise and airplay from the likes of John Peel, Steve Lamaq and Xfm. Life, however, sometimes takes a funny turn. Following the loss of his childhood sweetheart Laurence retreated and turned his back on his then musical endeavours to take stock. He found himself recording a collection of songs in a greenhouse on the very remote west coast of Ireland. These songs become the foundations on which the diamond family archive was built. The songs were personal, sometimes painful tales of love lost and life’s laments. Since then all the diamond family archive recordings have been made in Laurence’s flat. They are true bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, hallway recordings. He writes, records, produces and plays everything himself. He is possibly a control freak. Since it’s creation the diamond family archive has played shows in North America, Germany, England, Ireland and Scotland. Support slots have included: The Radar Bros., Efterlang, Josh T. Pearson and Sparklehorse. Laurence also plays for a handful of friends musical projects. These include The Great Park (Woodland Recordings) and Blanket (Try Harder Records). He is also part of Stolen Recordings diverse roster and appears on their acclaimed compilations. This year has seen a split ep with The Great Park, 2 albums on Woodland Recordings and a release with Fence Records. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.