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I'd like to see polo shirts with a "Fairport 50" logo embroidered/similar, rather than /as well as the usual band/tour t-shirts.

I guess someone somewhere is already looking at designing a logo for next year - but if it hasn't already been done, I'd like to suggest using the 'traditional' Xmas font - with "Fairport's" (as per the Cropredy logo) with a large "50" beneath, and "since 1967" or "est. 1967" as a 'strapline'... letters to be in gold with red edging/highlights, to reflect the 50th anniversary and subliminally Cropredy (Red & Gold).  I'm rubbish at drawing/photoshopping, hence the description...

A 50th anniversary beer - draught and bottled? - would be good, maybe pint glasses with the logo?

I assume a live CD from the 2017 Wintour will be a shoo-in.

A box set of rarities, outtakes and alternate versions.

Jules

I'd like the Box of Treasures box to be avaialable again. I'd also like it to be buyable by mail, so i won't even have to go to the event.  8)

Yes, a polo shirt or sweatshirt with a subtle logo would be a great thing for the anniversary.

Why stop at a polo shirt?  Let's have matching jodhpurs!   ;D

Jules

Polo shirt would be good. Better than a t-shirt.

And polo pony too?

Definitely like the idea of the polo shirt - a really elegant design (along the lines of that described) would be great.

I also like the idea of pint glasses - but would like a proper tankard (probably pewter but possibly stoneware) would be even better - presumably with the same logo as the shirt.

I realise it's a specialist taste but I remember really liking the "who knows where the time goes" watch - I personally would love a good commemorative pocket watch but suspect it wouldn;t be popular enough to have a large enough production run fro me to be able to afford to buy one!

Scanty panties to make a return.
Who ever  thought that was a good line in merchandise?
  On  personal note, something a bit bigger than xml would be nice, there's loads of fat blokes at property who would buy a polo or t shirt if larger sizes were available.

Peggy.



XML?  Xtra Monstrously Large?   ???

Jules

Really?  A live CD from Cropredy with all the guests would be much better received in J-S Towers.

How about some tie dyes?  I miss my old, what was it, '93 (??) one in gruesome yellow and light blue.  Hideous.  I loved it  :)

What about a 50-piece tea service?

Or his 'n' hers Fairport Cropredy Convention stormproof coats?

Or how about we forget all the fluff and have some MUSIC?

Jules

Yep.

Zimmer frame.
Mobility scooter.
Colostomy bag.

All FC branded of course.

... and windbreaks, chairs and XML tarps/picnic blankets!  ;)

A large flag with PaulT's logo on it

Yes, we really need those three outtake versions of My Feet Are Set For Dancing... :)

There is a marketing opportunity here!
My little Fairport.
All action man sized characters with changeable clothing.

No, no, all-action clothing with changeable men!

Collect the whole set, what is it, 25 different characters? Then to extend the range a bit more we have 1967 Simon, 1980 Simon etc etc... All that's needed now is a hugely popular kids TV series to drive the sales in ToysRus...

They would need to have changeable instruments too....

And a theme song! "Hey, hey, we're the Fairports..."

Ok, let's think seriously.
We sell this through a magazine .
Each week you get some pics you already have, some stories you already know and some song lyrics you already know.
More importantly as a USP you get one part of a model each week Eg this week , Chris Leslie's fiddle arm.
After only 18 years and an expenditure  of £5,500 you have your complete Fairport set.
Please send an SAE to , 'whothehellbuysthesethings ltd' Fairport Towers , Cayman Islands.
Anyone want to invest?
See attached business model.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2xz5HSyQNG0

Sorry Mods.
Tell me off.
Couldn't resist.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2032115/Enough-cash-sink-battleship-How-model-enthusiasts-pay-831-build-magazine-series-replica-HMS-Hood.html

Getting back to a more serious (& obvious !) answer to the q, I very much imagine that the number one item on a fan's wish list would be a new compilation dvd, bringing together as many line-ups as posssible. YouTube has shown us how much material there is, and there has been nothing along these lines since "it all comes 'round again" in 1987.  But what are the chances of that happening ...

Wasn't that a documentary?

Going back to my original post, I've submitted my idea for a logo (via FB) to FC, who are going to forward it to Mick Toole. You never know...  ;)

Nice one, Paul.

Jules

I like the idea of another watch....I loved mine!

A new album featuring guest appearances by former members.
A rarities collection
A cd/dvd of Cropredy 2012
A print/poster of the tshirt from 2012 that had cartoon versions of all of the people who played in FC over the years.

A Crazy Michael Mankini? Or more appropriately a Frozen Mankini... Beer-flavoured Angel Delight?

I can't see them focussing on their 45th anniversary for their 50th anniversary.  Maybe an updated version of the cartoon though.

Jules

How about the return of the Scanty Panty?

But more seriously a decent commerative pewter tankard would be good.

Fleece (embroidered if course!)

a...gottle of..Fairport beer...

Order from the other side of the living room. "I would just like a t-shirt designed for a woman."

A DVD release of the Babbacombe Lee documentary.

Hear! Hear!

Thirded.

Jules

Fourth'd. It seemed to take years for any songs from that album to get back into the rep, then when the whole piece was performed one evening at Croppers 2010, it was the first Festival I had missed for 14 years  ???.

Tankard ? Definitely !

WKWTTG Watch ? Yeah, was skint the year the last few were available at the merc tent.

G

Hear, hear!  {:-) {:-)

Definitely a pewter tankard and maybe goblets for the wine drinkers

"Goblets for the wine drinkers"? - isn't that what the tankards would be for??   ;D

A fleece with the FC logo ( my pre-'99 old navy blue one is very worn out) an embroidered sweat shirt or hoodie, a polo shirt with an anniversary logo......
A mug or jug

I'm actually shocked by how many of you like polo shirts!

Jules

And fleeces...

Regarding merch, I still enjoy my Swarb frisbee and am thinking that I ned an entire set, all past members with their won frisbee or other plastic toy to feature on.

Umbrellas!

Dunno why! They're far more flattering than t-shirts

I associate them with European playboys who wear the collars up.  And golf players.  They're not a very rock & roll garment, are they?

Jules

And how rock n roll are Fairport at 50? And indeed their audience?

I don't mind a polo shirt myself (as long as it is not a stupidly overpriced designer label thing), along with anything with an elasticated waistband and comfy slippers. Can we put those on the list?

Jam, Beat, Specials, any two tone band I can think of, Blur, Álbarn,  Arctic Monkeys, Happy Mondays, Incredible String Band...................... I lied about the string band!

So mods, mockneys and smackheads?  What else ya got?   ;D

And actually the mods and the ska groups wore Fred Perry, which are subtly different from polo shirts:-
https://www.fredperry.com/shop/men/pique-shirts

Jules

Folk -Rock star in polo shirt shocker!!

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Yep, it's a polo shirt with a Fred Perry sticker on it! Or possibly a tennis shirt, which makes it far more rock n roll of course.😉
Kenny Jones the drummer of the small faces, faces, and the who, owns a polo ground! And he votes Tory. Rock n roll!😀😇
Oh ....and New Order wore polo shirts.

Kenny's voting habits rule him out of contention.  And there's only one true rocker in New Order - Peter Hook, and I've never seen him in one.

Anyway, this is all by the by.  Polo shirts with rock band names on them just don't sit right with me.  Just my pov.

Jules

http://www.contactmusic.com/peter-hook/news/peter-hook-joy-division-macclesfield_4738185   ;D

That is top drawer detective work David!  ;D

Don't give detectives a bad name.  It actually took about 15 seconds.... a) google 'Peter Hook', b) click 'images' c) choose a photo   :)

HaHa.  ;D

Polo shirt - golf shirt - Alice Cooper - rock'n'roll.  8)

Every photo of Mr Hook looking dapper in various pastel shades polo shirt?!

His politics rule him out too Paul!!   ;D

I knew some git would do that!

Now I shall have to have words with Mr Hook.

Jules

Don't shoot the messenger here Jules but Mike Mills of R.E.M. Is a golf nut too!

I am aware of this failing, but he's forgiven.

Jules

Peter Hook is not a member of New Order.

Lol.  Give the pedant a prize.  ps we're going to get told off soon.

Lord Mills of Athens is beyond ridicule!  ;D

Last word ......for Jules........before a mod comes and tells us off.....
www.gq.com/story/rock-n-roll-polo

However, I completely agree with Jules, rock gods shouldn't wear polo shirts.
Ageing audience at Cropredy, totally different matter.

Polo shirts are about as rock and roll as a subscription to GQ magazine.

Jules

PS  They're not folk rock either.

What we need is a suitably irreverent TAW t-shirt.  ;D

'50 Years or Bust'?

 

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I like this idea.
Colin, you have far more skills than me.
I suggest a pic of a suitably bedraggled old folkie , ideally a cartoon, (Koen?)with the words,
'I know where the times gone'
Underneath.

Other possible slogan:

"I Can't Remember What I Did On My Holidays"

Jules



Edit: PS: Hendo - what's a Koen?

I like that one  ;D

Dear Editor,
Koen Hottentot, member of this parish , is the fabby artist who did the pastiche cartoon, of Sergeant Pepper as ' Sergeant Croppers yearly Fairport Band' 97 I think. Koen will correct me.
If you want anybody to draw a cartoon. He's your man.

I'm not sure I should wear anything that has "bust" on the front...  ;D

Ah!  Consider me enlightened.  Thanks, and apologies for my ignorance.

Jules

Another vote for this slogan - love it!

Think I'd prefer "Who knows where the time went", or, if I could think of a way to make it scan, "I was so much older then, I'm in my second childhood now"

If you  know where the time went, you weren't there....

Neil

Who knows where the rhyme goes?

Thanks Chris.
Think I'm going to have one made up anyway.

Make sure you put an apostrophe in "time's" or I'll be chasing after you with a marker pen!   ;D

Jules

Spell wotted. Thankyou.

I was at a fest sometime ago when t shirts came in small, medium, large, x large, xx large and fat bastard.
Actually had it on the label.

I can't believe it!

Really?

They still bother making "small"?

 ;D

Jules

Or "medium" come to that!