Do Fairport Tour Too Much?

[Simon Nicol]

But we do have to remember they aren't getting any younger (sorry chaps!)
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No offence taken.

[PLW (Peter)]

I like many of the old songs (more than like, actually), but don't those of you who are suggesting the "Backlog" idea think that that is a sure-fire way to turn the band into exactly what they DON'T want to be: a tribute band....?

I think there's a distinction between doing back cat songs and tribute bands though - Tribute bands tend to perform *other people's* material. Also they don't have to do *all* old stuff but more of a mix would be nice

Tribute bands tend to play material exactly as it sounds on the album. Real bands (such as Fairport) are continually re-interpreting their own back catalogue.

Bands who sound exactly the same as they did thirty years ago end up in Las Vegas.

[schrodingers-cat (Janey)]

But we do have to remember they aren't getting any younger (sorry chaps!)

Sadly neither are any of us

[Miguel Cajon (Mick)]

They don't tour too much. Modern bands are just lazy. Keep touring I say.

[Anne T]

They don't tour too much. Modern bands are just lazy. Keep touring I say.

Yes - Keep on turning the wheel, in fact.

[cat]

live music at its finest - as many gigs as poss please  

[PL (Peter)]

As I said above as long they are not a parody long may their passion shine.

IMHO FC is far from being a parody of themselevs.

They work with their back catalogue in a very responsible and sensitive way. They are not re-forming the whole thing (and better so) but just change fragments of a song or on a bigger scale the intro.
Look at the Stones or even worse Status Quo. There you do have the one and very same version of a song on and on and on. You are not in for any surprise when visiting a concert - neither negative nor positive.
That for sure is different with FC.

My Fairport phase startetd somewhere in the dim & distant past and some years later on (1984 to be precise) I enjoyed my first Cropredy.
It is with that past on my back that I dare say I like today`s FC more than their 70`s "entity".
But - and this is a big but - it is because of the broad mixture they are delivering today. A fair share of the past and an even better share of today`s songs, of new songs.

Hope this wasn`t too much gobbledygook.

So, on we go and long may FC run - touring and "studio`ing"

Peter
   

[MarkC]

There's no pleasing some people.

[ColinB]

Bands who sound exactly the same as they did thirty years ago end up in Las Vegas.

Apart from Status Quo who haven't had much success in the States.

Anyone see the interview with them in last Saturday's Guardian mag?

[fstix (Michael)]

Fairport haven't toured this part of the planet since 2002 - and this specific part of it since 1999.  Not that they don't want to, I know, it's more financial considerations.

So to those who think they're touring too much    - a) not here they're not, and b) don't complain, and please don't take for granted!  You may be more fortunate than you realise.

[gower flower (Shirl)]

I suspect you have summed it up rather well, fstix.  

[GubGub (Al)]

Fairport haven't toured this part of the planet since 2002 - and this specific part of it since 1999.  Not that they don't want to, I know, it's more financial considerations.

So to those who think they're touring too much    - a) not here they're not, and b) don't complain, and please don't take for granted!  You may be more fortunate than you realise.

Mind you, we don't see too much of Angry Anderson in this part of the world either! Or The seekers for that matter.