A big thank you to Fairport and crew for making Cambridge 'rock' last night! After spending the day in that beautiful city we enjoyed this concert from beginning to end!
The atmosphere was fun, the evening went so well for them and audience alike.
At least there are 4 young people who know who Fairport Convention are!
(of course I am refering to TTL) Sorry I muddle their names
but the blonde singer has a strong voice, I thought their harmonies had really come on too! I was pleased to see they have got themselves a fiddle player since I last saw them and she looked confident playing with Ric and singing as backing vocals. The tiny tin lady who wears the hat can sure play that guitar too! They have a good, confident stage presence, and considering their ages some of the songwriting was good.
Now on to Fairport! - I like the new songs, just not sure about Keep on turning the wheel yet. I was hoping for it to sound different than when I first heard it on MH and was trying to work out my feelings towards this song; maybe it is more 'folky' rather than 'folk/rocky' and after hearing Tam Lin, Sir Patrick Spens, Widow of Westmoreland and another new intro into Matty I definitely came away thinking how Fairport do give us a fair mix of style but how much I prefer the loud rocky stuff better! I think Simon's guitar playing on electric guitar amazing and really love it when there is more of this! On the subject of instruments Chris played a whistle (long and short varieties) LOL Sorry about the lack of technical terms here! but both added a great sound!
Chris remarked that they are halfway through now and I felt considering their 40 glorious years they are unfatiguable!
As usual they were all outside promptly after the show to sign and one guy in front of me had a 'Gladys Leap' blue coloured sweatshirt for signing
Ric was amazed at this and said that was the year he joined the band and held it high for all to look at! Simon, please pass on thanks for a great night and for being so willing to come out, meet the crowd and sign the merch! Which reminds me, Mr Nicol came rushing through the exiting crowd, pushing his way through to get to the front to hold us back, to prevent us from leaving, saying, "No one is allowed to leave until they have a receipt of a purchase" LOL! I told him if he ever gives up the day job he should go into market trader instead!
Ulla if you read this I did speak to Peggy and told him he would see you tonight in Brum! (He shook my hand once he knew I was a talkawhiler!
) So wish I was going to this one, especially with Show of Hands playing too, what a night, can't wait for reviews!
Last but not least the unaccompanied encore Best Wishes was stunning and joining the band for Meet on the Ledge was Edmund with his trumpet
I do love that sound, what an amazing guy!
