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All good guesses, I reckon, Tasha - except for the native American, which I think might be to do with the American Civil War. Not sure, and you may be right.
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« Reply #61 on: January 05, 2007, 07:10:42 PM » |
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If the T-shirts feature the artwork from the cover I would strongly suggest a limited print run of about a half dozen! Ric can take three of them for his wardrobe rotation. The other three for the lucky, hard-core Fairport T-shirt completists  |
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« Reply #62 on: January 05, 2007, 07:28:49 PM » |
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I wonder if the seafaring gentleman is something to do with Polly on the Shore, and the treeman is what the fairy queen didn't do to Tam Lin?
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« Reply #63 on: January 05, 2007, 07:32:40 PM » |
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All good guesses, I reckon, Tasha - except for the native American, which I think might be to do with the American Civil War. Not sure, and you may be right.
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« Reply #66 on: January 05, 2007, 08:32:49 PM » |
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Not sure about the cover but do not like the title at all.
I think the first track sounds like a great album title to me. 'Keep on turning the wheel' fit the bill perfectly i should say.
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« Reply #67 on: January 05, 2007, 09:17:03 PM » |
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Just a flying visit - but does anyone have a decent quality version of the cover for Rising for the Moon? I can't find anything too clear on the www and (to my shame) don't have a copy of the album yet. But from what I can squint at on Amazon, could it be the same artist (or his/her son/daughter)?
As for the rest - cover? Hmmm. Title? Whatever. Contents? BRING IT ON!!
Sorry it's been so long, and it looks like Work (ugh!) is going to keep me run off my feet for most of 2007, but I'll drop in when I can and/or when something interesting's happening.
Hopefully catch up with anyone who recognises me at St Albans & Cropredy - hope there's another session (I promise to play something not written by Ric this year!).
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« Reply #68 on: January 05, 2007, 09:36:33 PM » |
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16 songs is bloody good value as 10 is about average for a single CD. Also five songs by Chris Leslie thats his best tally for a while. I cant wait.
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« Reply #69 on: January 05, 2007, 10:06:24 PM » |
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well i'll reserve judgement but if the cover is owt to go by........god help us all
they appear to have stuck with the formula plus the tillbrook and partridge songs
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« Reply #70 on: January 05, 2007, 10:21:14 PM » |
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The album cover reminds me somehow of an old Roy Wood (or Annie Haslam???) album - I don't remember which one... Anyway, it's awful... but it's the music that matters so let's wait and see  Karl |
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Just a flying visit - but does anyone have a decent quality version of the cover for Rising for the Moon? I can't find anything too clear on the www and (to my shame) don't have a copy of the album yet. But from what I can squint at on Amazon, could it be the same artist (or his/her son/daughter)?
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« Reply #72 on: January 05, 2007, 11:58:29 PM » |
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Well I like the cover and the title, in a record shop shelf sort of way.
It jumps out at you and that shifts units.
It's also well enough done to look as if it was meant to look like that. If you see what I mean.
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« Reply #73 on: January 06, 2007, 12:18:13 AM » |
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I agree with the Yabb.
I think it is astonishingly good - eye-catching, quirky, amusing, and one to make you linger. Somehow, all things Fairport are captured in that little vignette: the nod in the direction of Mr. Leslie's native american flute, the hint of traddy-rural pagan stuff, beguiling maidens, Jeeves and Wooster and a sea-shanty or two. The choice of neck attire by our beloved chaps says all that we need to know about them - Peggy in a t-shirt, Nicol the cool lounge lizard, the dapper Sanders, the up-for-it Conway and the play-it-close-to-the-chest Leslie. There's tea and cake and a thoroughly British feel about the whole kit and caboodle.
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« Reply #74 on: January 06, 2007, 06:31:21 AM » |
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Well I like the cover and the title, in a record shop shelf sort of way.
It jumps out at you and that shifts units.
It's also well enough done to look as if it was meant to look like that. If you see what I mean.
I guess that depends on the record and the shelf. It will sell to all the people who would be expected to buy a new Fairport Convention album in 2007. It won't sell to anybody else. Which is sort of the point I (at least) have been making isn't it... |
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« Reply #75 on: January 06, 2007, 09:17:49 AM » |
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It will sell to all the people who would be expected to buy a new Fairport Convention album in 2007. It won't sell to anybody else. Which is sort of the point I (at least) have been making isn't it...
I think it will sell. Because a striking cover does make a difference. The first challenge in a shop is to get people to pick up the CD. From experience of dealing directly with some large record stores, if the artist is relatively unknown an interresting cover will sell. |
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« Reply #76 on: January 06, 2007, 09:19:36 AM » |
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I'm with Yabb and Sir Bob, I think it's fab.
A chap by the name of Mick Toole did the artwork, he's the same fellow who did the art work on Peggy's Cocktail Cowboy album cover all those years ago.
Mick has done the art work for most of Fairports album covers, boxed sets and Cropredy programmes for the last twenty odd years.
The inspiration for the Sense of Occasion cover was from a photograph taken Ben Nicholson a guy who lives in Barford.
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This question of Artwork for Fairport LP and now CD covers, what makes for a good fairport cover and what makes for a bad one? I really like 'Fairport Convention', 'unhalfbricking', 'What we did on our holidays', 'Angel delight' (works really well as an LP design, less well scaled down as a CD cover, however a nice little package if purchased as an import as is Babbacombe Lee) and graphically 'Bonny Bunch of Roses'.
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« Reply #78 on: January 06, 2007, 10:44:44 AM » |
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"History" is the best LP cover for me, due to the ammount of useful info on it, which is legible. CD's don't lend themselves to getting any details across, unless you have a magnifying glass to hand. As a large number of Fairport fans don't have 20:20 vision (I'm typing this with my specs on), a good CD cover therefore relies on a striking picture. The ColvinQuarmby "A Short Walk To The Red Lion" cover produced an enormous amount of comment, as the artwork was almost entirely unviewable, due to a printing error. This didn't stop it, however, from being instantly recognisable. For myself, I'm trying to persuade bands I produce CDs for to take the "DVD case" route, as the viewable area is larger, and so can contain good artwork and space for a decent ammount of readable text. It's an uphill struggle! Jules |
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« Reply #79 on: January 06, 2007, 10:46:05 AM » |
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Thank you for the info Martin..
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