TalkAwhile - The Folk Corporation Forum

Anyone know why this site stopped being updated?

Unfortunately all the content as gone now which is a shame because the Cropredy info was good for looking up who played when.

Did you try emailing Ian & Stephanie Rennie? Their website is http://www.musikfolk.co.uk/

Google is your friend in that cached versions of a lot of the pages are still available, although probably not for long.

It's still all there as a part of the Musicfolk website

http://www.musikfolk.co.uk/expletive-delighted/index.html

But not updated beyond March 2006, as before.

This site was an essential tool for me when I first started checking out Fairport.  I hope it gets a new lease of life somehow or other.

Jules

Talking of which, does anybody remember (probably in the late 90s I think) flyers and names being taken at Cropredy and elsewhere for an Encyclopaedic reference work on the band (discography/gigography/bio etc etc) that was going to be produced?  I'm pretty sure there was even an ad for it in one of the Programmes of the time, but I'm damned if I can find it.  Probably false memory syndrome.  Again!

And yes, I'd love to see the info on Expletive Delighted saved for posterity, and indeed, updated as, like for many others, it is an essential reference work for when all else (ie my brain) fails (as happens more and more often these days!)

I didn't know it was part of another site Andy, so didn't think it was worth emailing. Tis a shame it hasn't been updated.

It didn't used to be part of another site, I guess they may have subsumed it into their main website to cut costs.

I think you referring to "The Fairport Connection" by John C. Falstaff
One of the leaflets for it read: Publication due Autumn 1992, so if it's the same one that you seem to remember, it was a bit earlier

In the end it didn't get published, never got a refund for the 20 pounds I did pay Michael Young of Cruiskeen Lawn Press for a copy

So I wasn't the only one :(

Aye - that's it...cripes, I was only a decade out ;)  Thankfully I never got as far as handing over any pennies, but I think it was a close run thing.  

Does anybody know (of) this Mr JC Falstaff?

Funnily enough, this seems to be on the Expletive Delighted site:

http://www.fcfansite.fsnet.co.uk/jf-photos/jcf-pg03.htm

Googling John C Falstaff reveals a number of hits for that name ....

I am pretty sure that the Expletive Deleted stopped being updated for personal reasons, and it is unlikely to be updated now, but I will ask a man who knows the man and find out..

 :)

I notice the Musikfolk-sited Expletive Delighted now says its last update was January 2010 - though all the pages I checked were still stuck back in 2006.

Yes, it's just an auto-updated field.

I've just checked http://musikfolk.co.uk/expletive-delighted/index.html - and it's been recently updated, for the first time since 2006!

Really? I just thought that was the "updated" date when they tansferred it from it's own domain to musicfolk?

Yep, have a look.

good-oh! ;D

That's great - lovely to have it all in one place where I can check it all out. Thanks for the info.

Ruth.

Great news.

Jules

Huzzah!!!

Been waiting four years for an update from them!

Well done Ian and Steph!! :)

SPLENDID!  :) :)

Well, this is a brand new site to me. Guess I'll be spending even more time looking up stuff I knew, and finding lots of new stuff too.

Thanks guys...

There's an auto-updated field up the road from me. Everytime the sheep eats the grass, it grows back :) (agricultural I know, but it's the best I can do ;D)