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Spotted this the other day:

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He was at the Oxford gig on 3rd March.

Jude spent ages chatting him up ;) ;) ;)

Sandra

He was also at Croppers last year.

 :-[ :-[ I can't remember what about though :-[ :-[

Jude

Amazing - it's usually Ric Saunders in the press. Poor guy, spelt correctly by The Sun, of all papers.

Think it should have been in the Grauniad. We have Folk and Rock in the piece ok but not in the right order.  ???

I've remembered, we were discussing how old Robert Fripp is. (60 this May!) :o

There's gossip for you..............

Wearin well though...

(http://www.ear.fm/Encyclopedia%20F/fripp.jpg)

if fairport have made the sun it must be time a to dispose of the albums although football world cup song might be interesting

all together now

Three exes down my shirt
beer foam still gleaming

or whatever O0 {:-)

No matter how old Fripp gets, he'll always have that "latent psychopath" look about him. Unnerving but also strangely fascinating...

but a thoroughly good egg all the same (and a sweetie to me.....)

Impossible, Ric's teaching ME to play. MEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEEEEEEEE!!!!!

They didn't mention that it's via Ric's excellent DVD, (I believe Ric met Frank backstage at one of his shows last year when Mr Skinner admitted the shocking truth, which inspired me to get hold of a copy).  'tis flippin' good, and a chortle to boot.  The first one I tried featured a po-faced American lady who kept saying "Mmmm-kay?" like Mr Garrison from South Park! I can murder the key of D now, in both directions, look:

(Dog howls, ferret stands on head, E string breaks again, Hedgehog runs blubbing to bathroom to fetch another plaster...)

Does Robert Fripp go to the same optician as Chris Leslie?

Well, they don't go to the same Barber, that's fer sure.  :o

Ah, that's what it is - thought something looked familiar!

It must be being married to Toyah! Thats what's keeping him so young as well!

Anyone ever seen Fripp and Mattocks in the same room?



Thought not...

Nah, Mr Fripp has an aversion to pickaxe/hoe-type garden tools..... ;D

Since when have our beloved Fairport Convention been 'Rock pioneers'? Where's the Folk in that?

I was actually nodding in approval at that, however inadvertent it was. Certainly it's more correct than "folk pioneers" and I don't think there was space to put folk-rock. Fairport were a rock band, who "pioneered" a new direction/genre by adding elements of folk into the mix.

are a rock band, surely. ;)

Steve

Very debatable at times. I think Fairport lean more to the folk end of the spectrum these days, not  necessarily a bad thing for some but dissapointing for others.
The real dissapointment for me is the lack of another lead instrument to balance the violins.

I reckon that just tells you how far "folk" has come over the last 30 odd years. If you played the current Fairport to a folkie in the sixties they'd run from the room screaming.

Middle of the road, surely?

In terms of Folk Rock, then yes, I'd say middle of the road, but if you are counting Folk and Rock seperately, I'd say they are definetely Folk

Sarah

Middle of the road on the original songs, no bite of rock on the trad ones, leading to middle of the folk I guess.

stay in the middle of the road what happens?
get run down by a truck ;)

Ah!  "Knights of the Road" from "Rosie"  ;)

Or you could take the Neil Young approach

"Heart of Gold put me in the middle of the road. Travelling there soon became a bore so I headed for the ditch. A rougher ride, but I saw more interesting people there."

More beer left for the rest of us, then ;D

It's odd, this discussion.  I'm currently working through all my Fairport albums on the MP3, so it plays them in alphabetical order of album - Angel Delight, Babbacombe Lee, Fairport Convention, Full House, Jewel in the Crown, Leige & Lief, Nine...  You get the drift

It's probably just 'cos I'm a youngster and a fairly recent convert, but I think the more recent stuff is more "rock" -y than the older stuff.  I know I'm missing a lot of the 70's output at the minute, so that could be where you're all coming from.  Actually, I think the "rock"-y-est stuff that I've got is about in the Maart era.

Middle of the road rock, OK, and the problem is?

If you like MOR music, then I guess there's no problem! But in the context of FC's back catalogue, and in the wider context of the folk scene at the moment, the fact that the band's gone MOR is a bit of a disappointment. There's plenty of raw, edgy, exciting music out in the genre... it's just a shame that none of it is being played by FC.

if you dont have  a problem with MOR then thats fine, i preferred when they were closer to the edge
you tend to get knocked about more in the middle and end up indistiguishable from the tarmac

MOR is "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep", not "Sir Patrick Spens" or "Canny Capers" or "Rosemary's Sister" or "Red And Gold".

    Nah............Chirpy Chirp Cheep Cheep isn't middle of the road (except for the "band"'s name)......it's more in the ditch by an unmarked track winding towards a stagnant deep pit of shite. And now it's fixed in my head for the next god knows how long.   >:( >:(
   Bugger!  >:( >:(

"Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes", then, Mike? ;D

  That's just a classic prototype for thrash-metal.

  Admittedly, the lyrics are a little harder to make out in later versions.......