This is a list of releases by The Bar-Steward Sons of Val Doonican, including studio and live albums, singles and other media.
The name of the label was derived from a comedy sketch by comedians Stewart Lee & Richard Herring in the second BBC television series of Fist Of Fun.
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Released in 2016 as a limited edition album commemorating 10 years of The Bar-Steward Sons of Val Doonican, featuring rare live recordings spanning those years and archive interview footage with band members past and present.
The album opens with a parody of Hendrix's Crosstown Traffic, which features electric guitar performed by Graham Oliver, founder-member of heavy metal band Saxon.
Oliver joins the band again on one of the album's two hidden tracks, a cover of Saxon's Wheels Of Steel.
It was later released on double disc LP on transparent red vinyl, and on an extremely limited edition cassette with sleeve artwork that is a pastiche of the cover of Queen's Greatest Hits II (only 21 copies exist).
Released in 2019, by the line-up of Scott Doonican, Björn Doonicansson and Alan Doonican #2, the cover artwork is a pastiche of Ace Of Spades by Motorhead and opens with a parody of the same track, featuring guest appearances from Graham Oliver from heavy metal band Saxon on lead guitar, and Hugh Whitaker from The Housemartins on drums.
The updated cover artwork is still a pastiche of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles, and features Barnsley celebrities alongside the line-up of Scott Doonican, Björn Doonicansson and Alan Doonican #2 in the place of The Beatles, along with the various contributors to the album.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (including the reprise - notably absent from the original album) and A Day In The Life.
The album was mostly recorded, mixed and mastered remotely from the participants' home studios, yet still features a host of special guests, including folk musicians Eliza Carthy, Kate Rusby, Kathryn Roberts, Dave Burland and Mike Harding, Graham Oliver from the heavy metal band Saxon, former drummer with The Housemartins, Hugh Whitaker, Barnsley-based broadcaster and poet Ian McMillan, Scott Doonican's late father-in-law Michael White and many others.
The final CD album release saw the inclusion of a Scott Doonican authored book that featured the lyrics of all of the songs, along with the stories behind them and intricate 'recording notes' that discuss the recording, mixing and mastering process involved in bringing the ten year old album up-to-date.
The remaining members of Fairport Convention's Liege & Lief line-up approved of the band's parody.
The album was crowd-funded by fans who received their physical copies a month earlier than the launch date of 29 May 2022 with strict instructions on the mailers they were not to be opened until 1 May.
As well as working solo, he continues to perform alongside his partner Amanda, during their more sporadic online shows that began during a 67 consecutive week period during the coronavirus pandemic between 2020-2021.