Global Village Trucking Company special with James Lascelles

<p>Global Village Trucking Company with James Lascelles in conversation with David Eastaugh</p> <p>Lascelles was a co-founder of the Global Village Trucking Company, known to its fans as "The Globs", in the early 1970s. The band, the road crew and their families all lived together in a commune in an old farmhouse in <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sotherton'>Sotherton</a>, Suffolk,<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lascelles#cite_note-1973news-2'>[2]</a><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lascelles#cite_note-3'>[3]</a> and undertook numerous benefit concerts and free festivals, playing extended free-form jams,<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lascelles#cite_note-AM-DT-4'>[4]</a> making them a well known UK live act. The band shunned record companies, but played on the <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greasy_Truckers_Live_at_Dingwalls_Dance_Hall'>Greasy Truckers Live at Dingwalls Dance Hall</a> benefit album at <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingwalls'>Dingwalls</a> in 1973, and in November 1974 they recorded an eponymous album at <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockfield_Studios'>Rockfield Studios</a>, <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monmouth,_Wales'>Monmouth, Wales</a>.</p> <p>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.<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lascelles#cite_note-5'>[5]</a> This re-union led to other Global Village gigs at <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury'>Glastonbury</a> 2008 and other festivals.</p>