Rebus namechecks Fairport shock!

[Edthefolkie]

Another literary mention for our music, following RT in High Fidelity !

The wonderful Ian Rankin has the following in the Rebus novel Exit Music ......

"Caravan"! Rebus commented. "Canterbury's finest...didn't know people still listened to them."

There were other sleeves he recognised: the Fairports and Davey Graham and Pentangle.

"Somebody studying archaeology?" he guessed. (Cheeky s*d - Ed)

Rebus namechecks Dick Gaughan, Bert Jansch and John Renbourn too. And I know he drinks Deuchars and Laphroaig...excellent taste eh?

[Cocker Freeman]

He's always doing that.

[Edthefolkie]

Yeh I know, but you don't get that sort of thing coming from Miss Marple....

[Staffan]

... but from Alan Banks in Peter Robinsons novels.  
"A Piece Of My Heart" contains references to both Sandy, Fairport and RT for example. When I asked him, Peter Robinson admitted to being a huge RT fan. There´s always a nod in RT:s direction in the Alan Banks novels. One even seems titled after a RT song, "Strange Affair"  

[Andrew]

Check out Northern Sky by Mark Radcliffe.  There's reference to both Fairport and Cropredy.

We're getting our carpets laid this weekend.  By a Mr M Groves!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Jim]

Check out Northern Sky by Mark Radcliffe.  There's reference to both Fairport and Cropredy.

We're getting our carpets laid this weekend.  By a Mr M Groves!!!!!!!!!!!!!

watch out he'll lay anything that Groves bloke, dont leave him alone with the mrs

[MikeB (Mike)]

Check out Northern Sky by Mark Radcliffe.  There's reference to both Fairport and Cropredy.

We're getting our carpets laid this weekend.  By a Mr M Groves!!!!!!!!!!!!!

watch out he'll lay anything that Groves bloke, dont leave him alone with the mrs

Post of the week?

[leahdon (Donna)]

Phil Rickman regularly refers to folk bands/singers in his Merrily Watkins books, in particular Nick Drake and occasionally FC.

Best FC reference was when one of the characters tries to hang himself and fails.  The other characters notice that the music playing in the background is from Babbacombe Lee, and for the readers who don't know the reference, Merrily thinks to herself "Babbacombe Lee... that's the man they couldn't hang..." or summat like that.