TalkAwhile - The Folk Corporation Forum

So have just bought a double on Ebay, Knights of the Road... Live at the Royal Albert Hall June 1975

Rather echoy, hissy, various volumes...  Denny, Peggy, Donahue (?), Swarb, Nichol, Lucas, Mattocks(?) line up.. (at a guess!)

Anybody know the origin of this one?

Would that be Nicol & Mattacks possibly?

Oh yes, well done Chris  ;D

Or even - the Royal Albert Hall in June 1975.....

What was the question again? :-)

Unless he was a guest at that show, Simon wont be on it as he was in the middle of his sabbatical  then
 is this the one?
whats it sound like?

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I can tell you Simon wasn't on stage although he may have been in the audience. If you look at my photo album, you will find a few photos from that concert. Nice fashions.

I was in the audience (and therefore on the CD - can I have my cut please?). It was the "Fairport Live" line up - ie the Nine band plus Sandy. And one of the most memorable nights of my life. I've got a review of it somewhere from the Guardian, which I'll post later when I've found it.

P

Well done all and thanks, have listened to CD1 and it's def worth havin!

Thanks for solvin the Simon issue... I really should have known better! We ought to have an early warning system for when this stuff appears on eBay.

If this was June 1975 it would have been Bruce Rowland on drums - not D.M.

Though DM is on the cover photo...

bootleg covers arnt neccessarily too accurate, they may have just used an old photo
 because according to the date the BR would have been the drummer

also Swarb introduces "the new drummer Bruce Rowlands" just before sloth

The origin of this is probably from Pink Roberts bit torrent site, it was torrented there in June of this year but with different artwork. A lot of stuff from his site ends up on ebay....


details below:

FAIRPORT CONVENTION featuring Sandy Denny
Knights Of The Road: Live At Royal Albert Hall

London, June 10, 1975
Audience recording de-hummed, re-pitched and remastered

Disc 1:
1. Walk Awhile
2. Dirty Linen
3. Rising For The Moon
4. Restless
5. Stranger To Himself
6. Rosie
7. Brilliance Medley
8. Sloth
9. Mr. Lacey
10. Guitar
11. Knights Of The Road
12. No More Sad Refrains

Disc 2:
1. Quiet Joys Of Brotherhood
2. Tam Lin
3. Listen Listen
4. It'll Take A Long Time
5. Lark In The Morning
6. Hexamshire Lass
7. John The Gun
8. One More Chance
9. Iron Lion
10. Sir B. McKenzie
11. Who Knows Where The Time Goes

Pink Robert (just Google) wasn't available for new signups for quite a while but it is now.  Knights of the Road is still being seeded there.

There's a boot on dime from Finland in 1971. It's the foursome lineup, Babbacombe Lee, and this is one hell of a rocking set! There's a certain rawness to it that's really striking...
What a lineup! Nicol could be in a punk band on this.

The Matty Groves is absolutely stunning.

Sound quality is incredible - no hiss, no echo... Sounds like a pro recording.

I wonder if this is the same 1971 show that provided the version of Tam Lin as found on the Swarb! box set?  Does it give a date, or even just a month for the recording?

As regards the Knights Of The Road boot, I'd love to hear Fairport do the title song live, as the version on Rosie was more of a "Fotheringport Confusion" recording.  Same with Plainsman.  Are there soundboard recordings out there of either of these two songs?

Jules

This is the info for that show:

Fairport Convention
Ruisrock Festival
Turku, Finland
August 22 1971


1. Bridge Over The River Ash  (3:31)
2. The Journeyman's Grace  (6:14)
3. Mason's Apron  (7:08)
4. Sir Patrick Spens  (4:00)
5. Matty Groves  (7:48)
6. Sir B. McKenzie  (5:49)
7. Sir William Gower  (4:47)


Dave Mattacks - drums
Simon Nicol - guitar, vocals
Dave Pegg - bass, vocals
Dave Swarbrick - violin, mandolin, vocals


Lineage: SBD > ? > trade audio cd > Flac Frontend aligned on sector boundaries - level 6 > flac

Thanks!

Jules