Curly's Airships

Curly's Airships
Studio album by
Released5 October 2000
Recorded1994–2000
Masters of Art Studio, Sussex; The Organ Workshop, Lymm, Cheshire and on location in England, France & Holland[1]
GenreArt rock, songstory
Length143:56
LabelMasters Of Art
Judge Smith chronology
Dome of Discovery
(1993)
Curly's Airships
(2000)
The Full English
(2005)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
New Horizons(not rated)[3]
No Warning(not rated)[4]

Curly's Airships is a double CD by Judge Smith, released in October 2000. Smith regards the album as a new form of narrative rock music, which he calls "songstory".[5] Curly's Airships tells about the R101 airship, crashing in France during its maiden overseas voyage in 1930. Amongst many others, Peter Hammill, Hugh Banton, Arthur Brown, David Jackson, John Ellis and Pete Brown perform on the project.[6]

Smith believes that the 2 hr 20 min work might be one of the largest and most ambitious single piece of rock music ever recorded.[1][7]

  1. ^ a b Curly's Airships (booklet). Judge Smith. Masters Of Art. 2000.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  2. ^ François Couture. "Curly's Airships – Judge Smith – Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards – AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
  3. ^ "Chris Judge Smith CDs". elrose.co.uk. Archived from the original on 15 March 2012. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
  4. ^ "nowarning.htm". libero.it. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
  5. ^ "Songstory". Judge Smith. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
  6. ^ "MergedFile - Curlys-Airships-Website.pdf" (PDF). www.judge-smith.com. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
  7. ^ "Curly's Airships Double CD « Judge Smith". www.judge-smith.com. Retrieved 20 June 2018.