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« Reply #60 on: February 25, 2007, 04:58:09 PM » |
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My favourite by a mile was the Full House line-up wiping the floor with everything as friday night headliners in 1985. No messy cast of thousands - just five brilliant musicians playing till their fingers caught fire.
Favourite non-CF Crop performance? Can't decide. There's the exciting GP's at Broughton Castle 1981, RT's Big Band in 1983, The Nerve (closest we ever came to a Fotheringay reunion - can't wait for the Jerry's Fotheringay 2 CD project).
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« Reply #61 on: February 25, 2007, 07:36:34 PM » |
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My favourite by a mile was the Full House line-up wiping the floor with everything as friday night headliners in 1985. No messy cast of thousands - just five brilliant musicians playing till their fingers caught fire.
Wow! I am SO envious. This was a couple of years before my first Cropredy and I would have given anything to be there - L&L and Full House is my absolute favourite FC period. Tell us more! Tidied up the quotey thingy. Carry on, don't mind me.! |
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« Reply #62 on: February 25, 2007, 08:58:00 PM » |
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I'd vote for Richard Thompson playing some tracks from 'Hand of Kindness' with Fairport at Cropredy 91. I just remember that those songs never sounded better. His headline set that year was OK but the band were kind of boring as I recall (despite the awesome R&S material), then the next night he came on with the chaps and everyone was so comfortable and confident.
Non-FC would have to be Robert Plant in 92/93 (can't remember when). I have this memory of Maart looking like he'd just been given the keys to the toyshop, playing all those great riffs at volume 11. Plant just the most astonishingly powerful performer.
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« Reply #63 on: February 25, 2007, 09:54:28 PM » |
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Richard Thompson Band (classic line up) - 85? 86? sometime around then.
Fairport in the same years, the Saunders/Alcock line up was still 'new', and they stretched themselves on stage. What year was Iain Matthews? That was a great one.
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« Reply #64 on: February 25, 2007, 10:52:48 PM » |
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for me I really dont know, IT so hard choice between:
Lenningrad Cowboys - fun
Saw doctors
Robert Plant - i was only five but do remember my dad reiterating how important that moment was!
super tramp (well as much of super tramp as 10CC had of 10CC)
ROY WOOD - one of the many years - i have always enjoyed it
MY Favourite croppers act (not including any rendition of FC) though is...
John Rowe - the storyteller circa 1997 a great rendition of 'old mossy coat'
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« Reply #65 on: February 26, 2007, 12:43:00 AM » |
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MY Favourite croppers act (not including any rendition of FC) though is...
John Rowe - the storyteller circa 1997 a great rendition of 'old mossy coat'
John Rowe is an absolute diamond of a man who I have known for...ooh blimey...27 years - he used to drive a punk band I was in around in his van (as well as any other band that ever needed driving anywhere). He does stories for beer as well if you catch him off-duty! I find it hard to think of a festival that I ever went to when he wasn't there. Lives in Ipswich y'know, but born in the fair town of Braintree.  |
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« Reply #66 on: February 26, 2007, 11:14:16 AM » |
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My fave Croppers moments have to include:
Roy Wood (1998), my first Cropredy.
FC always pull ot the stops but 35th aniversary and 2005? with RT doing 'Im Down'
10cc
Lindisfarne.
And Iain Matthews (2000?) doing an acceppella version of 'Galway to Graceland' simply beautiful.
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« Reply #67 on: February 26, 2007, 11:32:05 AM » |
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Non FC, Got to be Eddi Reader in 2002. Heart in the gob motion moment for me (Didn't even realise that it had pissed down till she went off stage)
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« Reply #68 on: February 26, 2007, 11:35:23 AM » |
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John Martyn without doubt for me - completely awesome, that and the Show of Hands when they played before Tull (I think).
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« Reply #69 on: February 26, 2007, 11:42:04 AM » |
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Difficult one.... RT in the sunshine ? Muffin Men ? Mark Gillespie, because I organised that and was soooooooo nervous ? Or Robert Plant, because he was so sexy ? Or Blue Tapestry ? I really can´t take a decision   |
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« Reply #70 on: February 26, 2007, 12:58:54 PM » |
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Moistly Autumn, undoubtedly.
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« Reply #71 on: February 26, 2007, 01:00:56 PM » |
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Or, in the real world,
Huw & Tony Williams
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« Reply #72 on: February 26, 2007, 03:17:10 PM » |
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Other than FC (the "Farewell" set in 1979 & the "30 years" sets)
The Home Service - just awesome live.
Billy Connolly doing an impromptu set ("discreet massage" for cyclists' numb bits, indeed...)
Malcolm (?) in the L***a suit leading the "folk aerobics" session.
Neil Cutts, bless him, & his team at the bar - every year
Ralph McTell - for smiling to my sons during his rain-sodden set.
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« Reply #73 on: February 27, 2007, 07:11:23 AM » |
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Well, apart from Fairport,
Jethro Tull and
years and years back, All About Eve
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« Reply #74 on: February 27, 2007, 11:06:56 AM » |
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All About Eve (both times) Loudon Wainwright Steeleye Span (1989) Show of Hands I have extremely high expectations for 2007..........  Adam |
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« Reply #75 on: February 28, 2007, 02:05:00 AM » |
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MY Favourite croppers act (not including any rendition of FC) though is...
John Rowe - the storyteller circa 1997 a great rendition of 'old mossy coat'
John Rowe is an absolute diamond of a man who I have known for...ooh blimey...27 years - he used to drive a punk band I was in around in his van (as well as any other band that ever needed driving anywhere). He does stories for beer as well if you catch him off-duty! I find it hard to think of a festival that I ever went to when he wasn't there. Lives in Ipswich y'know, but born in the fair town of Braintree. He is so good, and has inspired me to take up story telling, He ussually tells stories in one of the canteens at croppers (late at night for the inebriated) |
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« Reply #76 on: February 28, 2007, 12:00:17 PM » |
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For me it was
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain 2005 who were (and still are) plucking amazing - followed by a close second Morris On Band in 2004.
I also think that the double bass player with King Pleasure and the Biscuit Boys last year deserves a special mention for incredible moves and imaginative faces whilst still managing to play his double bass - kinda Tourette syndrome meets the rhythm section
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« Reply #77 on: February 28, 2007, 12:23:54 PM » |
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For me it was Freeway Jam in 2002. There have certainly been others who were better but to be sitting in that field after so many false starts was simply fab. It was my first Cropredy (yes I know I was late, sorry I did bring a note  ) and they were the first group on. |
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« Reply #78 on: February 28, 2007, 12:27:38 PM » |
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I can hone it down to one song. Robert Plant singing Girl From the North Country, with Fairport, 1992. Immortalised, thank God on the 25th Anniversary CD set. Every summer at some point, I sit in the garden and play it very loud. Takes me back every time.
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« Reply #79 on: April 19, 2007, 02:40:00 PM » |
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Kathryn Tickell from some time back in the mid 90's, 95 or 96 somewhere around there. It was scorching hot and there was just an incredible sound coming from the stage in the afternoon.
Unfortunately the recollection is a little hazy.
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