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Title: Festivals Post by: Sandra on February 26, 2008, 06:14:21 PM Hi Swarb
You must have played at loads of festivals in your time (and I have seen you at a fair few, including Glastonbury in 1971), but do any stand out for you, and if so, why? Title: Re: Festivals Post by: Swarb on February 26, 2008, 06:51:53 PM I dont think any stand out particularly,about half a dozen are memorable for differing reasons,some good fest tales will be in the book i suppose.I dont know where to start on this one , played from the shetlands fest to new zealand, went there for a fest and flew back the next day 34hrs there and 34 hrs back,spent the journey out getting plastered with ozzie Osbourn! thats pretty memorable!
Title: Re: Festivals Post by: Pat Watson on February 26, 2008, 06:56:52 PM Hi Swarb,
Welcome back. That's very impressive that you held your own partying with Ozzie or should I be impressed with Ozzie for holding his own with you? Pat Title: Re: Festivals Post by: Swarb on February 26, 2008, 06:59:29 PM drunk him under the fusilage, so i did.
Title: Re: Festivals Post by: Mindwarper on February 26, 2008, 07:29:10 PM Getting tanked with Ozzy. Now there has got to be some stories :)
Title: Re: Festivals Post by: Swarb on February 26, 2008, 07:40:48 PM mmmmmmm,
Title: Re: Festivals Post by: fat Billy(Bill) on February 27, 2008, 11:44:58 AM I did think of a question after all
I saw you at cambridge FF around 80-81 playing in an acoustic line up I seem to remember that after the first couple of numbers you said to the crowd "just have a dance" and we all got up. Can you remember who you were playing with? (musically of course) Title: Re: Festivals Post by: Swarb on February 27, 2008, 11:49:01 AM It was iether whippersnapper, or dave swa.... and friends, which would have included a piano.Do you recall a piano,if you do i can tell you the line up.
Title: Re: Festivals Post by: fat Billy(Bill) on February 27, 2008, 11:51:16 AM Piano?
Come on this was cambridge and the guiness tent opened at 11am you're lucky I can remember you playing.......you must have been really good ;D now I think about it it might have been "and friends" Title: Re: Festivals Post by: Delfini (Diane) on February 27, 2008, 12:13:41 PM I think it was ' and friends' Billy - I was there (and sober) and remember the piano ;D
Title: Re: Festivals Post by: fat Billy(Bill) on February 27, 2008, 12:17:20 PM I think it was ' and friends' Billy - I was there (and sober) and remember the piano ;D damn, shame we didn't meet, I was a young god then! I still look like a god..........Buddah Title: Re: Festivals Post by: Swarb on February 27, 2008, 12:18:12 PM simon nicol , tim donald, beryl marriot, roger marriot, peggy? alan roberson and yrs truly
Title: Re: Festivals Post by: Delfini (Diane) on February 27, 2008, 12:24:04 PM It was one of the sets that stand out in my memory from a lot of CFFs
Title: Re: Festivals Post by: Swarb on February 27, 2008, 12:41:44 PM that band swung like the proverbials, and great crack it was too.
Title: Re: Festivals Post by: Jules Gray on February 27, 2008, 12:49:54 PM I still look like a god..........Buddah Buddha's not actually a god.......but I digress...... ::) Jules Title: Re: Festivals Post by: Swarb on February 27, 2008, 12:57:39 PM you have lost me
Title: Re: Festivals Post by: Pat Watson on February 27, 2008, 03:52:31 PM Hi Swarb,
I was wondering if F/C ever played at any of the large festivals in the US. Additionally, I saw FC and Steeleye Span on the same bill in 1984 in Washington, DC. Was that a rarity or did you tour often with Steeleye. Thanks, Pat Title: Re: Festivals Post by: Ollie on February 27, 2008, 05:01:06 PM Dave Swarbrick and Friend at CFF 1980 is avaibable (well, 5 tracks) on the second disk of It Suits Me Well: Transatlantic Anthology. This disk also includes Whippersnapper at CFF 1984 (4 tracks). It's bloody good.
Swarb, I think my dad was on that gate at CFF 80, and he distinctly remembers not letting you though, as you didn't have a pass! He had no idea who you were! Needless to say, he does now! BTW - on the CFF disk, in your introductions, you don't mention Alan Robertson, and Peggy is. |