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  1. I suggest less of a shock than Alice Cooper a few years ago. I missed him, but I’m told he went down a storm. Fairport’s clever trick is to book a big name ‘heritage’ act for Thursday, but not sell day tickets for that day only.

  3. Sloop John B. McKenzie’s Daughter’s Lament For The 77th Mounted Lancers Retreat From The Straits Of Loch Knombe, In The Year Of Our Lord 1727, On The Occasion Of The Announcement Of Her Marriage To The Laird Of Kinleakie.

    • The odd thing is that Thommo is in the UK at the time and playing various festivals with his band. There was a Croppers shaped hole in the schedule (as well as spaces for theatre gigs, assuming you don’t bring a band across the Atlantic only to play on a few consecutive weekends) but no sign of a band gig in Oxfordshire.

      • He is over most summers, it seems, but only plays at “significant” anniversaries. I suspect the remnants of his old band don’t like him stealing their drizzle every year.

        • Yebbut … there’s a new band album and tour (or at least festival dates so far) this year. It’s not a case of him turning up, but playing to what would be probably his biggest, and almost certainly his most adoring, audience of the tour.

  5. To be fair, Sloop John B is a folk song isn’t it? Brian Wilson was supposedly doing the “last ever” Pet Sounds gigs 3 or 4 years ago though – his ‘people’ are properly taking the piss now and it irritates me that they have to sell him off the back of one album when the old boy could easily do a really good festival set without playing anything from Pet Sounds .

    Oh…and the fucking Levellers – I invoke the Lighthouse Family rule – zero merit and a totally wretched band who should fuck the fuck off. Worse than the Lighthouse Family in fact as…to be fair…I would eat a sandwich made by members of the Lighthouse Family.

  6. Well, maybe not one made by the bass player as he looks as if he may not have washed his hands recently, but they make a decent enough racket and put on a good show. I like ’em, but then again, I never quite understood why the inoffensiveness of the Lighthouse Family inspires quite so much passion. Decent singer and the 3 songs I have hear, admittedly broadly the same song, isn’t so bad.

  7. To be fair it’s never said it is a folk festival, Reunion for the first few years then the Cropredy Convention.
    Attended last year as it was the 50 th but see no need to go again.
    With regard to Thommo from my vantage point on the disabled platform I saw a steady stream of people leaving as he played on the Friday night.
    As the present iteration have been in existence for the last 30 years give or take a few minor adjustments, then there will be those attending who are there for ‘ their’ Fairport and previous lineups mean nothing.
    I’m afraid that the trio of Thompson does not do anything for me, I feel he needs someone to bounce off. Enjoyed his playing with his son in law James Walbourne four years ago.

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