In Rainbows
Nov 12, 2020
2 minutes
JIMWIRTH
STUDYING English at York University, Rose Simpson was blown off course when she first ran into the Incredible String Band on a mountaineering trip to Scotland in 1967. The Edinburgh duo of Robin Williamson and Mike Heron were making a mystical stir on the margins between folk and psychedelia, and to the bookish Simpson – then 20. “They were so good-looking; these visions in bright colours, and the hair and the beads. It was this thing about brightness. It had been an incredibly dull world.”
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