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Fairport are about to do three gigs in Russia...

Is this a first for them??

http://www.fairportconvention.com/gigs.php

They could have timed it a little better  :-\

its not like they'll be entertaining the troops on the chechen(sp?) border

So long as they don't play "Georgia on my mind" :o

... or 'Get Back'.

What about Back in the USSR?  ;)

Whoopppsssss... that's the one I meant...  senior moment.. good thing we have you here Ollie!!

Never a more important time to ensure that cultural exchange and dialogue takes place, particularly with the British Council pulling out of many cities in Russia and being harrased in the few in which it remains. I've lived there for two years and people are often extremely interested in British history, arts and folklore.

Kazan has a fasciniating history as the Tartar capital and that should be an interesting festival.
The venue in Moscow literally translates as the 'Caviar club' - go easy on the fish-eggs chaps!

I hope the veggies will find suitable food there!

 

It has quite an eclectic line-up- quite a few of the current King Crimson line up with their own bands

Including KTU with the amazing accordionist Kimmo Pohjonen

And the Adrian Belew Power Trio

 ;D

I would love to go back to russia, and this would be a perfect excuse if only i could afford it.




They can try. I found some very questionable looking vegetables when there, but at least i knew what they were, whereas no one could identify the grey meat we were served. We ate a lot of cereal bars and chocolate that week.

On the telly at the moment is the guy cycling the world.  He's a veggie needing a sh"tload of calories a day and is in that part of the world finding it quite difficult to find veggie stuff.

Hang on though, he's in the Ukraine.  Same thing I suppose.

It will be when they have finished in Georgia

While we're on the subject of meat and two veg, I hope they remember to pack their Y-fronts...because Chernobyl fallout

An a-list Russian music journalist visited Crops and here http://kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?fromsearch=28985c22-c646-42b9-90dc-69a32a967d9e&docsid=1011062 are some of his ruminations. In Cyrrilic, sadly....

Can anyone here translate for us??

Please??

Try this (http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fkommersant.ru%2Fdoc.aspx%3Ffromsearch%3D28985c22-c646-42b9-90dc-69a32a967d9e%26docsid%3D1011062&sl=ru&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8)  ;D

I was just doing it on Babelfish and was going to post it: but Bob beat me to it and I must confess that the Google 'puter translation reads easier that my previously trusted Alta Vista..
Thanks for the lead there Bob!

I can't get on Google Translate here at work, but that was my first thought...

This I love:

"Most hot spot Kropredi - cricket club, whose team in these places enjoys great authority"

 :D

and this
The group Of fairport Of convention - the association, which made for the propaganda of [folka] in old world is not less than Bob Dylan - on the other side of the Atlantic. :o ;D ;D

I liked the ending...

But they do not want, they continue to feel like a holiday as house and meet each guest as a relative.

Thanks Bob.

Have a great trip to Russia Uncle Simon!!  ;D ;D

You're all welcome.
I've been digging through this myself. I wonder how much insight a 'puter translation can provide about the syntax/grammar of the source language.

Гастроли фолк

Отцы британского фолк-рока — группа Fairport Convention собирается в турне по России. 30 августа они выступят в Казани на фестивале "Сотворение мира", 31 августа и 3 сентября вместе с группой "Аквариум" соответственно в Москве в клубе Ikra и в питерском ДК Ленсовета. В преддверии визита Fairport Convention БОРИС Ъ-БАРАБАНОВ навестил группу на ее ежегодном летнем фестивале в английской деревне Кропреди

I think you'll all agree, that says it all

Allow me,

The fathers of British Folk Rock  - the group Fairport Convention are preparing for a tour around Russia. On the 30th August they are appearing in Kazan at the Festival ‘Creation of the World’ , on the 31st August and the 3rd of September together with the group Aquarium in Moscow at the Caviar club and in Petersburg and the Lensovet club respectively. In preparation for the visit of Fairport Convention Boris Barabanov visited the group at their annual summer festival in the English village of Cropredy.

Presumably there's more?

This should gain quite an audience - Aquarium are a veteran rock group in Russia and have a big folllowing.
Blimey, never thought I'd be using my Russian in a Fairport related context!!

Oops, just seen above that you found a translation already - my sklls ARE useless after all!

Crumbs! Have Aquarium reformed? That is the great Boris Grebenshikov's band right? I love his Radio Silence album. That is a double bill I would love to see!

No at all!

Thanks for the vote of confidence Bob!



That's the one - a quick look at wikipedia suggests that Aquarium now is basically Grebenshikov and backing musicians but they certainly created a buzz when they played in Siberia a couple of years ago.

Seems he's even recorded a couple of Richard Thompson covers.
Here's his version of Waltzing's for dreamers, requires quicktime: http://aquarium.lipetsk.ru/MESTA/mp3/2005_summer/waltzing_for_dreamers.mp3
A bit surreal, his voice is almost Fergal Sharkeyesque in places, but I've heard worse RT covers, and definitely heard worse Russian attempts at singing in English!
 

Yeah, well Radio Silence is in English so Boris has form. I hope Fairport get to see them. Maybe they will make enough of an impression to get Aquarium/Boris at Cropredy next year.

sorry,old bean, i just assumed that like all good folkies, all participants on this board would be card carrying members of the communist party and fluent in russian cyrillic so a translation would have beeen superflouous [;-)
 das vadanya comrades ::)

I don't think Aquarium ever broke up.  Even Grebenshikov's solo works have pretty much been Aquarium in some form or another.  Great band.  I saw them at the Sailor's Hall in Vladivostok on the Navigator tour back in 1995.  They rarely play the US, and even then, it's usually just New York.  Should be a fun tour...

A bit late in on this one, but I've just read the Babelfish'd article.  My favourite bit - "meet each guest as a relative."  Lovely.  And sooo Cropredy. :)

Enjoy the tour Chaps, sounds like great fun!

YES ! And I'm looking forward to the year I finally make it to Cropredy to see my cousins....

Is it worth flying to moscow when I just saw them 3 weeks ago?

Here's the link for the Petersburg gig.

http://www.reserve.sp.ru/index_e.htm

Ballet, ballet, ballet, ballet, ballet, ballet, Keith Emerson, ballet, Fairport, ballet, ballet

Slightly dated pic  ;)

Slightly dated scanner too....

And that's a truly terrifying picture of the Keith Emerson band  :)

how brassed off are the russkis going to be when Martin, Sandy, Iain, Richard and Ashley  dont turn up?
international incident ahead? ::)

Couldn't they have used a newer photo??

Have they gone there yet??

Will they be allowed home next week??  :o :(

they'll all end up digging salt in a gulag somewhere in siberia

What a brilliant link! "For the order of tickets... " etc

I hope not!!

You can almost hear "The system for the booking of the tickets" said in a Russian accent...
If you look on November 19, you can finally answer that nagging questions, "So that's what happened to Michael Bolton...

Also on the bill,

Eddie Jobson, Tony Levin, Trey Gunn, Pat Mastelotto - bit of a Crim alumni get-together there... pity Jude & Fripp couldn't have joined in!!  ;D

Is it UKZ that are playing there - with Eddie and Trey?  That looks an interesting combination....

 ;D ;D ;D

There is  quite a bit about this in Robin Slick's blog (She's the mother of Eric and Julie Slick who are two thirds of the Adrian Belew Trio -also playing). There's a pic of Peggy and a video of the finale with bits of Fairport bopping to fireworks and a 'Whole Lotta Love'

http://inherownwrite.blogspot.com/

(scroll down a bit!!)

And Whole Lotta love featuring Tuvan throat singing to boot!

A few Russian pics here.

http://www.fairportconvention.com/general_news.php  {:-)

Walk Awhile from the Creation of Peace - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=j6bY-m76zGs

horrid sound but the crowd does seem to be having a great time....check the "Creation of Peace Final 2/2"...
FC jumping around on stage during Whole Lotta Love...which is much improved by the addition of Throat Singing!

Who is this doing Whole Lotta Love?

Have a look at message 45 above... :D

Wonder if Pegg told em he knows Percy?

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=n2ckUBG1YVI

Go on, you know you want to ;)

Yeah,   seemed to be having a whale of a time!

Personally I could have done without > 8 minutes of Whole Lotta Love, but there you go. For me it was just a cacophany. (Gets coat, heads for door with great haste.)

patti smith for cropredy
she could make us all forget about June Tabor

 ;D ;D ;D

I spotted    but not  

Looked like high energy fun.. exhausting!!

Peggy sings backing vocals on All You Need is Love. Didn't spot SN tho..

Simon and Peggy were probably in the audience saying 'You see those 3 boys there, they're our boys!'

i saw the Peggster singing away in the vid, no sign of Norm though

Am I misreading this?  

According to Trey Gunn (ex King Crimson)'s online diary, Eddie Jobson played with Fairport?  If so, what was he doing up there and what did he play, and when can he join full time?!

http://www.treygunn.com/diaries/Entries/2008/9/4_KTU_in_Kazan%2C_Tatarstan%2C_Russia_2.html

No, it looks like you're reading that correctly.

There's a review of the Petersburg gig in Russian here:
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?fromsearch=eb07a530-1f4e-4abb-a7f9-e7f702bd8898&docsid=1023027

The main points - Aqarium played first, and their presence ensured that the gig was sold out - apparently some initially weren't sure why Aqaurim played a short set or who Fairport where, but BG used his 'patronage' to explose Russian Fans to Fairport, something the article says he has wanted to do for a few years - seems like it was pretty successful too. Ric and Chris apparently joined Aqaurium for their last song.

It gives a bit of background about Fairport and their history, L and L, Cropredy.
Rik seemed to enjoy it all, asking the crowd 'Can we come back please?'

And - Aqaurium have been invited to play Cropredy next year!!!

Fantastic news! Sorry - have been away for a month. Am just catching up!