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Yes. and No.

The boys asked for suggestions for tunes (I think around the time of Expletive Delighted?) and I wrote in suggesting "Mona's Delight" - being my Mum's name, and she being an FC fan.  Well, the title wasn't used, but I received a lovely pair of scanties for my Mum. (Thanks to Christine Pegg).  She never could get into them, BUT - she's still got them! I guess they will be passed down to my sister (another fan) in the fullness of time.  Imagine, in 200 years time, they might have pride of place at the Museum of Costume in Bath - or the Museum of Dodgy Merch in Banburyshire.

Two teatowels, circa 1990, with pics of current and former members (Koen's, I think?) still doing good service and will be coming along this year as usual for drying up the (first) breakfast pots. :)

The Koen tea towel always adorns the inside wall of the boat.. never been used on dishes though!

I actually sold an extra tea towel which had been in hiding somewhere for over a decade (sold if after washing it, mind) for a rather staggering less-than-$1, I believe, on eBay, some months ago. The value of some Fairport goodies eh ;-)

I'm back at comics by the way after an absence of about 9 years. My 1996 comic book Schnuurt - and there's an advert for which Fairport actually posed, published in a Dutch music magazine I was writing for at the time - I have to dig that up somewhere, as it actually fits in this topic - will be republished and redone (few pages out, few others from around that time in) ... call it remastered  O0, and coloured now too as opposed to the initial B&W version ... early next year.

And I've just been asked for Dutch comic 'zine MYX. All comics in Dutch though ...
A man's gotta do what he's reasonably good at ... I'm reasonably good at a profession which isn't very profitable (unless you get lucky), but it's more fun. And I'd rather create comics/drawings than vegetate at some office desk ...
No money though to attend Cropredy, that's a downside, grr. 

Now, I promise to try and find that pic from 1996. It has FC acoustic with Maart still. And me, come to think of it the pic's just as if I am the drummer actually. DM misses and I'm in ;-)

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Not for the advert, no - it was a pic as in, a photo. I've got it somewhere.

Ah. here we go. I believe it was Stockton-on-Tees, May 1996, an acoustic Fairport gig. Afterwards, they posed for this pic which was used for an advert for my book in Dutch music mag Platenblad, summer 1996. That whole advert I can't find anymore for the life of me, but the pic's here:
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y249/koenhottentot/FC0001.jpg)

My tea towel has two cartoons on it and the FC logo..

The top cartoon is of the then line up with Maart and DM, below is a pic of lots of other Fairporters.. the title is A Conventiuon of Ex-Fairporters.

I'll try and get a photo of it posted here later.

Koho any chance of an up to date drawing of the Chaps please?



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I think there were even two tea towels ... one being what Amethyst describes, the other was another drawing I did (also in another colour; one had brown lines the other green) which had earlier appeared in one of the programmes. Both with the FC logo and Woodworm Heritage printed at the bottom. I can only find one, but seem to remember the other. I have no idea anymore how many were made, and they weren't for sale for long.

After this, Fairport moved out of the teatowel business, apparently not the most lucrative of enterprises. But hey! At least they tried. 

Koho: Maybe it´s time for another Fairport-tea-towel-adventure?   ;)  With a merchandise dept on their homepage, Fairport can rely on several diehard fans all over the world that weren´t able to buy these goodies at the time, but with the internet...You´ll never know? ! ?  :D ;D
I´ve been hunting the FC coffee jug and I´m pretty sure that a tea towel would be ordered at the same time should there be any available from the Fairport homepage.
No money for Cropredy this year either but savingg up for a ....2007!
Staffan

OK, I know we are moving into merchandise suggestions here bit I'd love to see the return of the FC earthenware pint tankard. I got one of the big coffee mugs a few years ago but something big enough for a pint would be even more useful!!

Jackdaw  8)

as long as they don't bring back that awful white baseball cap from 92, which incidentally i still have.

I have a beautiful brown 25th Anniversary pint tankard, a blue pint and a quarter vase-shaped one (ideal for home brew) from a couple of years later and a half pint off-white one from around the 25th. Mrs MoF drinks cider from the latter, being a person of modest consumption  ;)

Could be that what is a "big coffee mug" to you is a pint & a quarter beer mug to me ;D

I don't remember seeing the  brown lined teatowel.

My mate, Oakwood Graham of this Board, had a green FC brolly and may still have. That dates from around 1990.

So long as merch is kept in good taste and doesn't become like the Shakespeare industry, for example, I'm all for it.

A friend of mine bought the green and whitre FC brolly.. I was with her when she bought it at the Derby Assembly Rooms on the wintour of 1990.. it cost her £16.. wish I'd bought one as well.

The writing on it said..  Come rain or shine you're always fine with Fairport Convention and she had it signed by most of the then line up! 

I have a some pohotos somewhere 8) ;D

Hi Amethyst - You can't make that comment about the umbrella & expect me to keep quiet!!!!!!!!!

Turn to Page 46 of Festival Folk!!!!!!




(Anybody out there not bought a copy yet? They're still available although running down now, see www.festivalfolk.co.uk

I've still got the tie (which Ric coveted at the launch of "Old New" at the Virgin Megastore), the pullover (c1982?) which introduced me to the fair Grace, the "Who Know?" watch (which doesn't work any more), the silver "Fairport" badge, the Broughton Castle tankard .....

All I know is that it don't hold a pint - I think it is 1/2 litre capacity.

Jackdaw

Those watches were total b*****ks. I think Peggy must have bought them from a garage. The one I've got worked for about two days - no chance of knowing where the times goes whatsoever.

Still tryin to wind it up Cockle?  ;D ;D

Batteries are not the answer to everything, Puggsy, as Amethyst often tells me.

I've still got two of those, one blue & the other black (I think - buried deep in the clothes cupboard) of slightly different designs (of sweater, the embroidered logo is the same).....

Just re-found in the back of my desk drawer -- beer mats from 1990 to 1994 inclusive with map on reverse and list of acts etc on front.. These were sponsored by Waddies but supplied to the village pubs as well, from where I recall taking them!

Yeah, I've got 1996 beer mats somewhere. Don't think they've got a map on them though.

I don't mean I've got one thousand, nine hundred and ninety six beer mats, by the way. It's what they used to call the years back in the last century, you know.

Tankard on Ebay..

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FAIRPORT-CONVENTION-CROPREDY-1997-STONEWARE-TANKARD_W0QQitemZ190012345820QQihZ009QQcategoryZ90838QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FAIRPORT-CONVENTION-CROPREDY-1997-STONEWARE-TANKARD_W0QQitemZ190012345820QQihZ009QQcategoryZ90838QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)

How about Cropredy posters?  Are there any particular ones that are rarer that others?

That'll be a NO then?!!? ??? :D ???

 ;D

Sorry Edd, probably nobody answered as it's a bit unanswerable really. The obvious answer is the older ones - certainly pre-1990 I would think - but other than that it's very hard to say. Cropredy posters won't be that widespread in general though, Winter tour posters will be much commoner.

Thanks Alex.  I was just wondering as I have framed Cropredy posters from 1982-1993.  Wondered whether they were worth selling as ther're now in the loft wrapped up.

No problem Edd. Nearly replied last week but...well...didn't  ;)

They'll certainly be rare, especially the first five or so, and all the more so as a set. Whether or not you could get much money for them is another thing. Generally speaking, Fairport merch isn't really worth that much really. Hard to suggest where/how to try to go about it. I'd have them myself if I had the money but...

I know how much I paid Dave Pegg for his framed1989 poster last year, it was a fair amount but I probably would have paid more (Did Dave manage to sell all his stuff?)

My blue one pleases me immensely. It just screams "Big drinker!"


As of a few months ago, he still had the old dartboard. I'd love to have it, but I'm on the wrong side of the Atlantic, and I wouldn't know what to offer him for it anyway. And I've already stored transatlantic Fairport-related materials in Batesy's garage once, so not again!

I know it's off-topic, but I did once swap my tent--during Cropredy--to Dave Swarbrick for a very good chicken balti. Perhaps my proudest interaction with anyone in the Fairport family. But I digress.

The Fairport 1997 tankard on ebay went for £18

It's still there, Pam.....!!
(at least, I think it is.....)