Which track performed live, in your opinion, most opitomises Fairport to you?

[Big Dave]

Now you've done it! I've got "Rosie" running through my head. Not Fairport's "Rosie" though, Don bloody Partridge's "Rosie".

Thanks!

oopps, sorry Andy old chap!!!  

[Bridgwit (Bridget)]

Sorry but I don't like Rosie at all.  

I have tried but I just can't stand it. It gets flicked onto the next track whenever it comes up on the MP3.

I didn't mind Don Partridge's song tho!

[Dan O.]

Have to agree with most of the above choices - I'd certainly miss these songs if they weren't played. (as an aside I've only seen FC not play MOTL once, Simon had a heavy cold and the guys finished the set with WKWTTG, Vikki Clayton on lead vocals, Winter Tour 2002 in Worthing)

[PaulT]

If we are limiting this to those songs we have seen played "live", well for me, the Swarb/Simon/Peggy/Dm line-up doing "Jams O'Donnell's Jigs" at a show in Liverpool, the band seated but rising to their feet at suitable points in the tune. Humour & musicianship encapsulated.

Matty, MOTL, WKWTTG, Rosie, Walk Awhile & The Cell Song would be 2nd choices.

 

[Pat Helms]

I keep thinking "most epitomizes" instead of "most opitomises."

Is there a differences?  I'm not quite sure, myself.  

[David W]

Sloth

[KascadeDan]

More votes for Matty and MOTL from me.

Also John Gaudie.

[Simon Nicol]

So that's next year's set list sorted then: Walk Awhile, Sloth, Matty, MOTL (encore).

Brill! Early bath!!!

[David W]

So that's next year's set list sorted then: Walk Awhile, Sloth, Matty, MOTL (encore).

Brill! Early bath!!!

Tou know how happy that would make everyone Simon.

But don't forget John Gaudie and jams as well.

[Simon Nicol]

I keep thinking "most epitomizes" instead of "most opitomises."

Is there a differences?  I'm not quite sure, myself.  

Grammatically either spelling is acceptable, obviously. Except that in your country, the "z" usage has gained precedence through simple printed predomination. I THINK (and I may have these reversed) that "z" is associated with Cambridge and "s" with Oxford universities. Who to this day maintain their own publishing empires! And I really should be sure of my ground before posting something so potentially contentious!

And on my birthday as well!

Best Wishes to all who sent me good tidings....

[Ollie]

I keep thinking "most epitomizes" instead of "most opitomises."

Is there a differences?  I'm not quite sure, myself.  

Grammatically either spelling is acceptable, obviously. Except that in your country, the "z" usage has gained precedence through simple printed predomination. I THINK (and I may have these reversed) that "z" is associated with Cambridge and "s" with Oxford universities. Who to this day maintain their own publishing empires! And I really should be sure of my ground before posting something so potentially contentious!

And on my birthday as well!

Best Wishes to all who sent me good tidings....

I think it's the other way around, as we have OUP textbooks at school and they all have z's instead of s's.

Happy birthday Simon (cos I'm not in the arms)  

[KascadeDan]

I also cannot get into the arms. But Happy Birthday Simon-

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=itsVOMPOdQU

[Pat Helms]

Yes, but isn't opitomise an altogether different word from epitomize?  Or is it a word to begin with?  Could I be confusing "opitomise" with "optimize" which I know is a real word, but will it work?

"Which song most optimizes Fairport for me?"  I'll have to think about that one!  

I guess I'll have to check (or is it "cheque"?) this one out!

Indeed!  Happy Birthday Mr. Nicol!!

[Adam W]

Walk Awhile was the first one they played at my first Fairport gig in 2002, so I'd have to say that.
It was at Southsea Peir, I was 8. At the end they let me help pack up the gear!

[Brendan]

I keep thinking "most epitomizes" instead of "most opitomises."

Is there a differences?  I'm not quite sure, myself.  

only if I was ashamed about my appalling use of the English language. Possibly explains why I only got joy from the cover of eats shoots and leaves, by Lynne truss. I can't believe I just used the spell check, after the horse has bolted. hee hee!

[Ollie]

I think optimises means to enhance something, and epitomise means to be a typical example of something.

[MarkV]

Being relatively new to Fairport, the one that  does it for me is Farewell Farewell, , the L&L set in 2007 and this years version, beautiful.

[Barry]

Difficult, isn't it?  Matty was the first thing I heard them play ever - it opened the set in those days and I was dragged along without ever hearing the band.

But .... if I close my eyes and let my mind drift over the years .... Hexhamshire Lass comes to mind .... and Simon singing "Flowers Of The Forest" whilst seated playing dulcimer - great arrangement, great lead vocals, great harmony vocals .... and Sloth, of course ....

For latter day Fairport, The Hiring Fair at Cropredy with the moon over the stage ....

[Dr Clive]

There's nothing more exciting (and broad grin-inducing) for me than those first few notes of Walkawhile when it is performed (as it has been several times in the past) as the opening number of an FC concert - magic!

Also belated Birthday Greetings to SN!

DC

[Will S]

Just about all the songs mentioned above could be contenders, but I think it just has to be Meet on the Ledge for me because, as groove st said, of the feeling of connection you get with the band and the other 20,000 people singing along in that field.