Boatgirl
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« Reply #40 on: March 21, 2006, 08:28:19 PM » |
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Beautiful Days is a very different festival to Cropredy and it would work quite well to have both bands playing both places. At BD Levellers usually finish off the Sunday so I would put Fairport on as Saturday headliner in the Big Top which would be a totally different atmosphere to Cropredy. Then at Cropredy I'd have Levellers on Friday in their Acoustic guise, again different to their BD set-up.
Oh Nick, what a fantastic but oh so improbable scenario to put in peoples' heads, you tease. Does the Corporation Arms have a naughty step? If so get on it and consider yourself cyber-spanked. |
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Dad Volt
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« Reply #41 on: March 21, 2006, 10:33:50 PM » |
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Ages ago when we had a 'Who do we want at Cropredy 2006' type threads I suggested a headlining trio of Pentangle, Steeleye & Fairport, still yhink it would be a reasonable idae, anyone else
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« Reply #42 on: March 21, 2006, 11:30:16 PM » |
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WAAAY TOO MUCH FOLK
lets have ian Hunter and Mick Ralphs
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« Reply #43 on: March 22, 2006, 04:24:35 AM » |
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As I read over these recommendations, I see numerous bands I'm sure I would enjoy. Family Mahone I saw two years ago, and would happily welcome them back. Oysterband I missed in 2004, but would would be glad of another opportunity to see them.
But may I offer two across-the-pond bands for your consideration, either of who would get the place rockin':
Sonny Landreth, slide guitarist extraordinaire from Lafayette, Louisiana USA, with his zydeco- and blues-influenced rock;
Nils Lofgren - played with Neil Young long ago, later with Ringo Starr's band, then with Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band from 1984, and again on Bruce's E Street Band reunion tours during 1999-2003. But he puts on a great show with his own songs and his own band - check his most recent live album recorded in 2002, for example.
Respectfully submitted,
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Anna
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« Reply #44 on: March 22, 2006, 09:33:39 AM » |
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Waterboys? They still going?
Anyone else think this is a strange comment to make when discussing a festival run by a band nearly 40 years old? Sorry, didn't mean to come across as sarcastic or anything. I genuinely didn't know if they were still together or not. I must try to keep up... |
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« Reply #45 on: March 22, 2006, 09:41:35 AM » |
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James Blunt??
be interesting to see if he could cut it doing it live
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Anna
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« Reply #46 on: March 22, 2006, 09:52:48 AM » |
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That'd be interesting, but perhaps not for a Friday headline...
(We'd both best run for cover!)
I'm definitely moving into the Hayseed Dixie camp, and I know a couple of other people who'd love to see them there too.
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« Reply #47 on: March 22, 2006, 09:56:57 AM » |
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That'd be interesting, but perhaps not for a Friday headline...
I agree. James Blunt isn't really Friday night headline material. Maybe bottom of the bill on Tuesday. |
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« Reply #48 on: March 22, 2006, 10:00:26 AM » |
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That'd be interesting, but perhaps not for a Friday headline...
I agree. James Blunt isn't really Friday night headline material. Maybe bottom of the bill on Tuesday. I'd be interested in giving the bloke a chance, his style could be attcepted and his songs are well put together. There will come a time when he has to make the jump from the charts to real music if he wants to survive. we could give him that break |
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« Reply #49 on: March 22, 2006, 10:44:22 AM » |
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I'd be interested in giving the bloke a chance, his style could be attcepted and his songs are well put together. There will come a time when he has to make the jump from the charts to real music if he wants to survive. we could give him that break
I think we will have to agree to disagree fB! Mr Blunt's music does nothing for me. Mr Blunt? Mr Bland more like  |
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« Reply #50 on: March 22, 2006, 10:52:57 AM » |
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I agree with Mark. It'd be totally the wrong audience for him anyhow, due to the lack of screaming teens.
Lovely boy, possibly some potential, not correctly aligned for Croppers tho' at the moment.
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« Reply #51 on: March 22, 2006, 11:03:41 AM » |
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Not sure about the screaming teens, Andy. You'd have to be a fairly weird teenager to like his stuff. I'd say it's more for the Dido market, thirty something women, the sort who burn candles while they're in the bath.
I had a borrow of his album, stuck it on my iPod in fact but, while it was a fairly pleasant listen while reading the paper, I've not listened to it again. He's got a bit of an odd voice as well.
PS Anna, check out 'Room To Roam' by the Waterboys (if you haven't already), folk-rock with flutes...
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« Reply #52 on: March 22, 2006, 11:08:53 AM » |
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You're probably right, Alex, the only knowlege I have is of one screaming teen in our vicinity...
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« Reply #53 on: March 22, 2006, 11:11:18 AM » |
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when IS the friday headline gonna be announced anyway?
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« Reply #54 on: March 22, 2006, 11:24:31 AM » |
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When they're definitely booked, at a guess. One tentative booking has already dematerialised, so I'm guessing they're ensuring that it's 100% nailed down before blabbing.
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« Reply #55 on: March 22, 2006, 11:26:42 AM » |
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Anybody going to spill the beans on who the tentative booking was ?
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Duncan McFarlane Band for Cropredy !!!!
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« Reply #56 on: March 22, 2006, 11:30:34 AM » |
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That was mentioned earlier in this topic. If it's no longer there, no doubt the Mods decided to remove it for a good reason.
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« Reply #57 on: March 22, 2006, 12:42:30 PM » |
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Not sure about the screaming teens, Andy. You'd have to be a fairly weird teenager to like his stuff. I'd say it's more for the Dido market, thirty something women, the sort who burn candles while they're in the bath.
Excuse me I have been known to burn the odd candlewhilst in the bath but i'm not keen on Blunt or Dido!!!  |
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« Reply #58 on: March 22, 2006, 01:09:23 PM » |
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James Blunt??
be interesting to see if he could cut it doing it live
well I saw him in wolverhampton last month and he was very very good live unfortunately he has bigger fish to fry than croppers these days. mik |
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« Reply #59 on: March 22, 2006, 01:29:26 PM » |
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That is a relief.
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