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Fairplay to Fairport!
Grand Opera House, York @
- York @
- Tue 1 Feb 2011 @
Favourite moment: All... @
Setlist: Babbacombe Lee, Festival Bell, Matty Groves, Meet on the Ledge et al. @
Opening act(s): Katriona Gilmore and Jamie Roberts. @
Posted 04/02/2011
by Adviser
Location:East Yorkshire
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They’ve played alongside Robert Plant, Sir Paul McCartney and Jethro Tull, with a touch of Cat Stevens and Art Garfunkel thrown in for good measure, but the members of Fairport Convention remain as humble as on the day their folk-rock supergroup took its first tentative steps in 1967.
To meet the musicians backstage or in the bar - even after after they’ve performed a lengthy set for a festival crowd in the tens of thousands - is akin to renewing acquaintances with old friends. No matter how many people want to shake their hands, FP will be there until the lights go out.
“We never tire of playing or of getting to know our fans,” fiddler and singer Chris Leslie told me after this two-and-a-half-hour gig in York last week supported by rising folk artists Katriona Gilmore and Jamie Roberts. “But you must be exhausted with all the touring and the concerts virtually all year round?” I asked him.
“No. We love what we do.”
“But you’ve just put on another fabulous show,” I venture. “Thank you so much,” said Chris. “It’s very good of you to say so.”
There was a similar response when my wife, Helen, and I chatted with the other Fairporters, Simon Nicol (lead vocals and guitar), bassist and vocalist Dave Pegg, violinist Ric Sanders and Gerry Conway (percussion). Try telling them that their latest performance was excellent and they’ll insist on thanking YOU for turning out to see/hear them on a cold and damp winter’s night.
Oh well, I suppose I could always post them my account...!
The group, whose annual, three-day Cropredy Convention in Oxfordshire attracts fellow musicians ranging from Status Quo and Ralph McTell to Rick Wakeman and Richard Digance - UB40 are this year’s special guests - opened their Grand Opera House performance with a 40th anniversary rendition of their concept album “Babbacombe Lee”, which recounts the tale of the infamous Victorian murderer John Lee, who survived the gallows three times in a row.
Fairport devoted the rest of their evening to a myriad songs from albums past and present, including their latest recording “Festival Bell". They rounded off the occasion with a rendition of “Matty Groves” - surely one of the most memorable folk tales of all time - and, as always, their finale “Meet on the Ledge”, which was dedicated to the band’s much-lamented singer Sandy Denny, who died accidentally in 1978, seven years after becoming the only guest vocalist ever to appear on a Led Zeppelin album.
She will live on in our memories. Her fellow, surviving Fairporters will, I predict, live and play on for as long as their health continues to survive a gruelling schedule of rehearsals, recordings, concerts and interviews!
To meet the musicians backstage or in the bar - even after after they’ve performed a lengthy set for a festival crowd in the tens of thousands - is akin to renewing acquaintances with old friends. No matter how many people want to shake their hands, FP will be there until the lights go out.
“We never tire of playing or of getting to know our fans,” fiddler and singer Chris Leslie told me after this two-and-a-half-hour gig in York last week supported by rising folk artists Katriona Gilmore and Jamie Roberts. “But you must be exhausted with all the touring and the concerts virtually all year round?” I asked him.
“No. We love what we do.”
“But you’ve just put on another fabulous show,” I venture. “Thank you so much,” said Chris. “It’s very good of you to say so.”
There was a similar response when my wife, Helen, and I chatted with the other Fairporters, Simon Nicol (lead vocals and guitar), bassist and vocalist Dave Pegg, violinist Ric Sanders and Gerry Conway (percussion). Try telling them that their latest performance was excellent and they’ll insist on thanking YOU for turning out to see/hear them on a cold and damp winter’s night.
Oh well, I suppose I could always post them my account...!
The group, whose annual, three-day Cropredy Convention in Oxfordshire attracts fellow musicians ranging from Status Quo and Ralph McTell to Rick Wakeman and Richard Digance - UB40 are this year’s special guests - opened their Grand Opera House performance with a 40th anniversary rendition of their concept album “Babbacombe Lee”, which recounts the tale of the infamous Victorian murderer John Lee, who survived the gallows three times in a row.
Fairport devoted the rest of their evening to a myriad songs from albums past and present, including their latest recording “Festival Bell". They rounded off the occasion with a rendition of “Matty Groves” - surely one of the most memorable folk tales of all time - and, as always, their finale “Meet on the Ledge”, which was dedicated to the band’s much-lamented singer Sandy Denny, who died accidentally in 1978, seven years after becoming the only guest vocalist ever to appear on a Led Zeppelin album.
She will live on in our memories. Her fellow, surviving Fairporters will, I predict, live and play on for as long as their health continues to survive a gruelling schedule of rehearsals, recordings, concerts and interviews!
ENDS
Grand Opera House, York @
- York @
- Tue 1 Feb 2011 @
Favourite moment: All... @
Setlist: Babbacombe Lee, Festival Bell, Matty Groves, Meet on the Ledge et al. @
Opening act(s): Katriona Gilmore and Jamie Roberts. @
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