Cropredy on TV tonight

[davidmjs]

Tyndalls doing Stevie Nicks was a disappointment  - why have a faux american accident? "Landslide" is a beatiful song, no american accent needed.

Whoops.  *looks embarrassed*  That's why I liked it!  

And whilst one song by MJ may indeed be enough, I'll take the second.  

And playing 'spot the regular/TAWer' was quite good fun in the boring bits....

[Anne Dunn]

I thought the sound quality was awful, specially for Fairport. Excalibur was cringeworthy and so was Bob Harris. Can't believe they left out Bellowhead.
Very disappointing.

[davidmjs]

Can't believe they left out Bellowhead.

I imagine this (and other omissions) was down to the band/management?

[Andy]

Well, SQ and Little Feat share management, I know.

[Nick Reg]

Enjoyed most of it, particularly Little Feat.
Pity there was no LJE or Leatherat.
Thank Cliff none of the dreaded.
I really enjoyed Matyn Joseph apart from the haircut.
Why didnt they use any of the footage shot around the site apart from stage and backstage? Might have given more of an impression of the atmosphere etc. What about the village too?

[LauraPountney]

You could hear Leatherat while Quo were being interviewed.    

[bassline (Mike)]

Waiting all day for this and hitting the brandy in preparation, I turned on the tv only to find I hadn't subscribed to this channel.Funny, thought I had.Last March! I spent just over an hour on the phone to various call centre folk working for Virgin trying to find out why I couldn't receive Skyarts1, being transferred to various other folks and being cut off and ringing back again, some told me it wasn't included in my package,some told me it was.Some silly woman said 'I've checked twice and it isn't included in your package, here's an Email with the proof', which actually quite clearly proved it WAS included  so I spoke to someone else and he rebooted my box and I finally got to watch it after missing the first five minutes.
So...I didn't get the chance to set up the recorder,so if there's anyone who recorded it I would happily join the blank DVD and postge crew for a copy.
As for the content - loved the Dixie's,Feats,Tindalls and Ahab.Quo were very flat, and the boys were good, not a great selection from the repetoire.I liked the Excalibur set at the festival, but it didn't leave enough time for Swarb on the tv (although I'm sure if anyone knew he was going to play in advance he would have been on there.)It was ok, slightly disappointing, but at least it was on.

[Mister Keith]

No Wakeman.  

Digance!  

Excalibur.  

The sound was dreadful.  

Spotted us in the crowd during Martyn Joseph, singing along.  

[billy]

Sitting in a field in the pouring rain listening to Richard Digance - what fun.

[Big Dave]

As publicity for our festival, brilliant.  Thank you Sky Arts.

This captured Cropredy for me, I felt as if I was back there in that blessed field field.

Having watched this I have now changed my opinion of Thea's gig, Tindalls superb, Ahab well done boys. Little feat Jim and Andy will say enough.  Quo,s**t Hot! even better second time around.  Sorry but I still cannot take to Martyn Joesph, possibly another setting and I may change my mind.  (I got that bored I left my favourite spot by the stage and went to back up to the bar in search of 6X)

TAW spotting:-
Adam and Kas
Ancient and Bridget
Robin
Young Dennis (At least twice) (Jack was at he bar drinking Cider, trust me I know!  )
Dan
I swear blind they caught me and Addie bouncing about to Quo. ( )

And so to Fairport.  
Sky buggered up the sound for Walkawhile, that is not how I remember hearing it.  Improved for Excauliber, If anything needs to  be done on the winter tour then that is the one, proper FC folk Rock, which confirms my opinion that this is brilliant stuff, Ric's fiddle contribution to this was stunning.  Uke was fun, even our Sue said they are having fun (and she knows nowt about Fairport)
Simon looked absolutley knackered by the time we got to Meet on the Ledge (and I don't blame him!)  no wonder I left the field not feeling my usual emotional high.

All in all, good stuff.  Thanks Bob for giving us a glowing report and thanks to Simon, Peggy and the boys for doing this for us every year!  

(Where did Jaquie get that witchy frock from?  )

ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome on stage FAIRPORT CONVENTION!

[Andy]

on the wall of non-fame shall be inscribed the following names of those ignored by this programme:

Keith Donnelly & Flossie Malavialle
Leatherat
Pauline Black
Mabon
Martin Taylor’s Spirit of Django
3 Daft Monkeys
Little Johnny England
Bellowhead
Easy Star All Stars
Rick Wakeman

Little Feat's "Spanish Moon" was still great, though.

[Viv G]

The sound quality was awful, not at all like what we got on the day! I have it on good authority that Sky used their own sound track for this and didn't take it from FC mixing board even though their chap was on the credits for them.Shame that, FC's own sound is far better.

Would have liked to have seen Keith and Flossie on the programme and I thought the blurb in the paper had mentioned Rick Wakeman but he wasn't shown either

[KascadeDan]

TAW spotting:-
Dan

Really? Where?!

[Nick Reg]

Its on again Today - twice.

[Andy]

The sound quality was awful, not at all like what we got on the day! I have it on good authority that Sky used their own sound track for this and didn't take it from FC mixing board even though their chap was on the credits for them.Shame that, FC's own sound is far better.

Would have liked to have seen Keith and Flossie on the programme and I thought the blurb in the paper had mentioned Rick Wakeman but he wasn't shown either

Sky Arts' own advance blurb showed Rick W. I suppose todays programmes are repeats, not additional material?

[davidmjs]

Little Feat's "Spanish Moon" was still great, though.

Wasn't it just...but do you agree that Dixie Chicken was strangely subdued?  

Paul Barrere didn't seem that engaged with it, I felt.  I saw Paul and Fred in Kendal a couple of years back and their acoustic version was awesome.  Still, must have been tough for them doing the gig at all after Richie's death...

[Andy]

I found it better on the night.

Let's face it, we should be glad that they turned up at all.

[fal de diddle]

Weren't Quo marvellous, showed how the younger element at the front really got into it. Fairport's vocals were unfortunately dodgy at best esp Simon's.

[Andy]

Weren't Quo marvellous,

I think you may find that there's a wide spectrum of opinion on this matter, for example, on such a scale, mine is diametrically opposite to yours.

[tony the roundhead]

Weren't Quo marvellous

Their vocals were dreadful. As Rossi said in the interview - "We've been coasting for 40 years". Which rather summed them up.