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« on: February 26, 2008, 06:14:21 PM » |
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Hi Swarb
You must have played at loads of festivals in your time (and I have seen you at a fair few, including Glastonbury in 1971), but do any stand out for you, and if so, why?
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Swarb
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« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2008, 06:51:53 PM » |
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I dont think any stand out particularly,about half a dozen are memorable for differing reasons,some good fest tales will be in the book i suppose.I dont know where to start on this one , played from the shetlands fest to new zealand, went there for a fest and flew back the next day 34hrs there and 34 hrs back,spent the journey out getting plastered with ozzie Osbourn! thats pretty memorable!
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« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2008, 06:56:52 PM » |
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Hi Swarb,
Welcome back. That's very impressive that you held your own partying with Ozzie or should I be impressed with Ozzie for holding his own with you?
Pat
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Swarb
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« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2008, 06:59:29 PM » |
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drunk him under the fusilage, so i did.
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« Reply #4 on: February 26, 2008, 07:29:10 PM » |
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Getting tanked with Ozzy. Now there has got to be some stories  |
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Stop the violens, Visualise whirled peas
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Swarb
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« Reply #5 on: February 26, 2008, 07:40:48 PM » |
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mmmmmmm,
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« Reply #6 on: February 27, 2008, 11:44:58 AM » |
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I did think of a question after all
I saw you at cambridge FF around 80-81 playing in an acoustic line up
I seem to remember that after the first couple of numbers you said to the crowd "just have a dance" and we all got up. Can you remember who you were playing with? (musically of course)
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« Reply #7 on: February 27, 2008, 11:49:01 AM » |
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It was iether whippersnapper, or dave swa.... and friends, which would have included a piano.Do you recall a piano,if you do i can tell you the line up.
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« Reply #8 on: February 27, 2008, 11:51:16 AM » |
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Piano? Come on this was cambridge and the guiness tent opened at 11am you're lucky I can remember you playing.......you must have been really good  now I think about it it might have been "and friends" |
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« Reply #9 on: February 27, 2008, 12:13:41 PM » |
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I think it was ' and friends' Billy - I was there (and sober) and remember the piano |
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and all I really know is that kindness is better than any sort of terror, any kind of spite (Martyn Joseph)
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« Reply #10 on: February 27, 2008, 12:17:20 PM » |
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I think it was ' and friends' Billy - I was there (and sober) and remember the piano damn, shame we didn't meet, I was a young god then! I still look like a god..........Buddah |
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Swarb
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« Reply #11 on: February 27, 2008, 12:18:12 PM » |
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simon nicol , tim donald, beryl marriot, roger marriot, peggy? alan roberson and yrs truly
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« Reply #12 on: February 27, 2008, 12:24:04 PM » |
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It was one of the sets that stand out in my memory from a lot of CFFs
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and all I really know is that kindness is better than any sort of terror, any kind of spite (Martyn Joseph)
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« Reply #13 on: February 27, 2008, 12:41:44 PM » |
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that band swung like the proverbials, and great crack it was too.
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Jules Gray
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« Reply #14 on: February 27, 2008, 12:49:54 PM » |
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I still look like a god..........Buddah
Buddha's not actually a god.......but I digress......  Jules |
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« Reply #15 on: February 27, 2008, 12:57:39 PM » |
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you have lost me
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« Reply #16 on: February 27, 2008, 03:52:31 PM » |
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Hi Swarb,
I was wondering if F/C ever played at any of the large festivals in the US. Additionally, I saw FC and Steeleye Span on the same bill in 1984 in Washington, DC. Was that a rarity or did you tour often with Steeleye.
Thanks,
Pat
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Ollie
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« Reply #17 on: February 27, 2008, 05:01:06 PM » |
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Dave Swarbrick and Friend at CFF 1980 is avaibable (well, 5 tracks) on the second disk of It Suits Me Well: Transatlantic Anthology. This disk also includes Whippersnapper at CFF 1984 (4 tracks). It's bloody good.
Swarb, I think my dad was on that gate at CFF 80, and he distinctly remembers not letting you though, as you didn't have a pass! He had no idea who you were! Needless to say, he does now! BTW - on the CFF disk, in your introductions, you don't mention Alan Robertson, and Peggy is.
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"Tradition must be respected, convention can be broken; but only when you know which is which."
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