Favourite Tunes to Play?

[Dave Russell]

Hi Peggy, hope all's well with you.

What's your take on playing new material vs. old favourites?  Any blasts from the past which you still get a real kick out of playing?

Cheers,

Doc

[peggy]

Hi Doc.Hope you are well and the bands doing good. I enjoyed playing with you at Middlewich. We start recording monday so have a lot of new tunes to tackle and I"m pleased to say that theres some really interesting stuff to get our teeth into.
 I always think that any band with a history (39 years in Fairports case!) has an obligation to play old stuff from time to time. I enjoy the current line ups adaptations of previously recorded F.C. material. We have a great version of "Tam Lin' and are considering "Polly on the shore" which is a track I am particularly proud of as I wrote all the music for it. But don't worry, we won't be bringing "Hungarian Rhapsody" back.
    The great thing about being old is that all our old material sounds new to me!
Best wishes to the chaps cheers, Peggy.

[Dad Volt]

Personally I would LOVE to hear you do Hungarian Rhapsody, it's a cracking song 

[Dave Russell]

... considering "Polly on the shore" which is a track I am particularly proud of as I wrote all the music for it.

Go for it!  I like that one.  Simon on Strat and duelling fiddles on the instrumentals? / D

[Tasha]

ahh Hungarian Rhapsody was my fave when the album was released. I learnt all the words and my brother sister and I "performed" it to my bemused parents. Well I was only 10!

[Mindwarper]

I also would love to see Polly ressurected. And Lord Marlborough