TalkAwhile - The Folk Corporation Forum

Let's pretend ...

Fairport have announced that on the Winter Tour they will be performing in the second half, songs which the audience have nominated during the interval.  Every try will cost a pound and the proceeds will go to charity.  You can nominate one song from the back catalogue and one song they have never played in public before.

Honour and Praise - I love that song and never heard it live.
Oklahoma - I'd love to see them all do the waving wheat bit with their hands and for Simon to sing OOOOOOOOOO-klahoma!

Away you go ...

(You're allowed serious suggestions as well ;))

FC should do a Cotswold verion of the classic:

Sweet Home Chipping Norton,

or from their own back catalogue,

Spanish Main, Restless

David W

We should expand this a bit.

Let's also be able to nominate a song they can't sing should it be pulled fron the hat.

Will someone dare to nominate "Matty" for the 3rd category, I wonder...?  ;)

Back catalogue: Lord Marlborough/Sir Pat/Sir William Gower

Newbie: Simon, Peggy & Chris singing "Three Little Maids" from the Mikado.

More seriously: "The Night Watch" by King Crimson, or "Love is Like a Railway Station" by the Albion Band, or "Merry Sherwood Rangers" (the SN version).

Bonny Black Hare.. it's about time they tackled this...  ;D

Past - Flatback Caper (with two mandolins, not fiddle/mandolin), Bird from the Mountain, Reynard the Fox.

Other - All Around My Hat  ;), Wish You Were Here, oh and...er..... Paranoid  ;D

Open The Door, Richard
and
Green Day - Good Riddance (Time of Our Lives)

Tokyo

Start Wearing Purple

Jack O'Rion

Back on the Chain Gang or Love Cats.

For the non back catalogue bit:

Janis Joplin's " down on me " complete with feather boas and Simon doing the wicked shouty bits.... then merging into LOVE's " alone again or " and finishing with " I wonder why they call you bitch " by Tupac. ( I think David Hughes should guest on this and rap like a bad gangsta mofo )

It would be beyond a delight :D

I've often said that this is the REAL way to run our local jam night.  Make it that musicians are placed with other musicians whom they would not normally play with, and the a short repertoire is pulled from a hat.  Much more fun!!  

Think FC would do it brilliantly.

 ;D I'd pay to see / hear that ::) ;D  My first smile since my guest left, thank you Sam :)

My choice, Alternative Sailors Alphabet, I'd be watching the audience for that one, not the stage :o  Was it John Cleese who once said 'No one has the right not to be offended' ?

In the Bay Area, we have rock lotto nights where musicians pull names out of hat and have one or two practices and play a set. The night is a mixed bag of hit and miss. Some very strange combinations. But I love the idea. And I have seen a band of one practice sound better then years old bands. One band had a song that had a proggy repeating melodic line that they played for what seemed like forever. I couldn't get it out of my head for days.

For Fc, I would love to see more grit, so I would pick songs like Lord Marlborough, Bonny Black Hare, Fiddlestix (what would the new guys do with that), spanish main, etc

For unknown songs, that would be a hard one. I like what they do with Summertime. Maybe more 20's type songs. Bring on the flappers. Or maybe a folkie version of a metal song. Fc doing metallica's Paster of muppets (master of puppets) would be amazing. Or Born to be Mild folked up.

 

Lalla Rookh

Chris singing Lord Abore and Mary Flynn

Bring 'em Down - I reckon the current line up could do something intersting with that.  Or maybe Flowers Of The Forest. Or Sickness and Diseases. Or... etc.

One of Danny Kirwan's solo songs would be quite good for the boys I reckon: Falling In Love With You or Hot Summer Day maybe

Chris singing "Lady Eleanor" would be good and his voice is right for it too.

Bridge over the River Ash  (2 fiddles, Simon on viola ["15 years a professional musician and I end up playing rhythm viola!" - SN, 1979], Peggy on bass, Gerry on percussion-type stuff)

Bad Moon Rising  with wild duelling fiddles

Devil goes down to Georgia, with Swarb playing Johnny, and Ric playing The Devil, with full effects pedals.

Paul

Theres an old band who's name escapes me. But one one of there albums they done an instrumental called 'God Bless The Revolution' which was a spaced out fiddle driven instrumental. I think it would be great to here what Ric and Chris could do with it.

As for rare tracks i would like an outing for (ducks, expecting an unenthusiastic reply) - When first to country off of Gottle. I think Chris gould sing it well.

Where are they going to find somebody to sing, play the fiddle and smoke a fag at the same time?

No smoking in the theatres now though...  ;D ;D ;D

I can do that :D

"So You Wanna Be A Rock And Roll Star" - provided that Simon would pull out his 12 string Rickenbacker from the mothballs.  

That would be more fun than a frog in a glass of milk! ;D

I suggest Shuffle the Pack or Mr Lacey. ;D

As for something completely different, how about Rigs of the Time. :o

I'd like to hear something different at the end of Matty Groves - prehaps the return of High Road to Linton, or something completely different.

I've often imagined that FC could do a fabulous version of that song.

I would like them to do "Golden Glove" and "Wishfulness Waltz" because I have never heard them do that live I think.

My out of the hat songs would be "I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts" with Simon John Breckenridge Nicol on spoons and jellied eels (as the only current London born member of the band), followed by an encore of  "Forty Fahsend Fevvers On A Frush" with Peggy dressed as a pearly king.

Well a guy can dream can't he?

M1 Breakdown...

From the back catalogue : 'Cajun Woman'

New stuff: 'Across the great divide' from 'The Band'

From the back catalogue: Swimming song  ;D

The theme to The Benny Hill Show would be pretty good!

Now that idea would have been great last year.

Imagine the Fairports chasing the Tiny Tin Ladies across the stage.

Now that is not a nice mental picture........ :o

It would have certainly taken the wind out of the Meet on the Ledge finale!!

True and Education Welfare may have withdrawn permission for the Tiniest Lady to skip school for the tour.

Actually it's disturbing on more than one level.

And Wileytown probably would have taken the wind out of the band.

Well......make a contribution where you can.  That's my motto!  ;D

There are a couple og great boots of RT doing just this live on stage.

He only managed one line of Devo's 'Are We Not Men?'.

For Fairport;

Old Song - bring Em Down

Other Artist - Old Horse by the Albion Band, Ace of Spades, or perhaps Waterloo Sunset.

As it has been seen from the 'Winter Spoilers' thread the choices that Fairport have made themselves from the back catalogue have been varied . The Babbacombe Lee section was a real bonus +Reynardine +The Rose Hip +Doctor of Physick..all out of the hat?
This tour has been one of the best for making you rediscover albums from the full 40 year history.

And I thought we were playing Let's Pretend ... ::)

Dreams can come true! :D

Best Winter Tour since ... since ...

...last year!

Seriously though, one of the best winter tours I have attended - and I've been to every one since 1999.