TalkAwhile - The Folk Corporation Forum

Having wasted a lot of time reading crime fiction, so far I have come across 3 references to FC/related:

A Rebus (Iain Rankin) novel where Rebus plays Fairport (can't remember which book)
Stephen Booth - Scared to Live, where one of the suspects is "Simon Nichols" at which point one of the police officers pipes up that he is a member of FC, isn't he?
Peter Robinson - Strange Affair, which alludes to various RT songs

Any more?

The Rebus book is "Resurrection Men".

More Fairport and other folk references were spotted in this thread.

http://www.talkawhile.co.uk/yabbse/index.php?topic=16636.0

Thank you sir - that thread must have passed me by.  Peter Robinson has some great musical references in his books, including a fictional reclusive female folk singer from the 60's not a million miles from Anne Briggs, references to Roy Harper, RT etc.  

My mother was reading a book by Joanne Harris - her of Chocolat - fame and asked me if I knew of a poem by Roy Harper called When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease. Poem I said it is a seminal cricketing song of the seventies. Apparently she quotes some of the lyrics in the front of her book about a school master or something.

Gentlemen and Players is the book...

Thanks davidjms

Hence the cricketing reference I suppose

We'll have to agree on the 'supposing' front.  I wouldn't want you to think I'd read it or anything...  ;)

Gentlemen and Players is the book...

A rivetting read it is too!!

It's not really a cricketing song, ut doesn't mention us losing to the Aussies!

After going to Cropredy in 2005 we went on holiday for a few days and I wanted a 'bath book'. Picked up a book called 'Tickled Pink'  in the fiction bargain bucket 'oooh coincidence' thought i so duly splashed out £1.99. Wasn't a bad book at all and there were two references to Cropredy in there, most bizarre

rachel

Nick Hornby - High Fidelity has a reference to Richard Thompson. Something about him being the best guitarist in the country I think.

Did anyone see Midsomer Murders last night?  

Ageing Band, one of whom lives in a quint "middle english" village.  They hold a festival and start getting bumped off....  (Beginning with Singer/Lush Suzi Quattro getting electrocuted by her Mic stand).  

Oooh - and there's a canal nearby.....

Did you see Sandy in the audience?

Paul

See here http://www.talkawhile.co.uk/yabbse/index.php?topic=20388.msg236105#msg236105

Did anyone spot the half Goat half aligator ?

Who?  Sandy?

I wouldn't normally watch TV on a Friday, but being too ill to really do anything else, I just crawled onto the sofa and vedged!!

Wasn't it the most spectacularly dreadful thing you've seen on tv in many a long month?  I was almost wetting myself at how bad the writing, the acting and direction were.  Fantastic.  I should get out more....   ;D

Ahhh - well, I got till nearly the end before I recognised James Cosmo with all that hair.  

High Fidelity is a very funny book and is full of musical references. The film was OK but the book was better.

no, did you?

No, I don't watch television.

Paul