'Fairport by Fairport'

[Andy]

Well, all reviews are subjective, but there you go. You pays yer money and you makes yer choice. Fair enough.

[Bridgwit (Bridget)]

Well, I haven't read it yet - not because I've been put off but I simply haven't had the time and I have about 7 other books to read first, all in various states of readness (not readiness!) ie I've started them but not finished them!

I am hoping for more than "and then we did this and then we played there and then we recorded this" type of history. I can accept the odd error on a date or place - very few people have a completely accurate recall (it took me an hour recently to work out which field we camped in at Cropredy since 2004 when we started going!) but I do expect easily verifiable info like places of birth etc to be correct.

I'd like to read it before Christmas though as I will have had it a year by then....  maybe

[Alan2]

Well, I haven't read it yet - not because I've been put off but I simply haven't had the time and I have about 7 other books to read first, all in various states of readness (not readiness!) ie I've started them but not finished them!

I am hoping for more than "and then we did this and then we played there and then we recorded this" type of history. I can accept the odd error on a date or place - very few people have a completely accurate recall (it took me an hour recently to work out which field we camped in at Cropredy since 2004 when we started going!) but I do expect easily verifiable info like places of birth etc to be correct.

I'd like to read it before Christmas though as I will have had it a year by then....  maybe

This encourages me. I take for ever to get around to books, too. I must hav ehad mine a few months before I started it. And don't ask me about CDs.

[Bridgwit (Bridget)]

Well, I haven't read it yet - not because I've been put off but I simply haven't had the time and I have about 7 other books to read first, all in various states of readness (not readiness!) ie I've started them but not finished them!
I am hoping for more than "and then we did this and then we played there and then we recorded this" type of history. I can accept the odd error on a date or place - very few people have a completely accurate recall (it took me an hour recently to work out which field we camped in at Cropredy since 2004 when we started going!) but I do expect easily verifiable info like places of birth etc to be correct.
I'd like to read it before Christmas though as I will have had it a year by then....  maybe

This encourages me. I take for ever to get around to books, too. I must hav ehad mine a few months before I started it. And don't ask me about CDs.

I'm even worse with CDs. I must have 30-odd CDs that I've not listened to yet.   I've started buying everything on iTunes (where I can't buy direct from the Artist) as I know I'll listen to it then.

[macademis]

Well, I haven't read it yet - not because I've been put off but I simply haven't had the time and I have about 7 other books to read first, all in various states of readness (not readiness!) ie I've started them but not finished them!
I am hoping for more than "and then we did this and then we played there and then we recorded this" type of history. I can accept the odd error on a date or place - very few people have a completely accurate recall (it took me an hour recently to work out which field we camped in at Cropredy since 2004 when we started going!) but I do expect easily verifiable info like places of birth etc to be correct.
I'd like to read it before Christmas though as I will have had it a year by then....  maybe

This encourages me. I take for ever to get around to books, too. I must hav ehad mine a few months before I started it. And don't ask me about CDs.

I'm even worse with CDs. I must have 30-odd CDs that I've not listened to yet.   I've started buying everything on iTunes (where I can't buy direct from the Artist) as I know I'll listen to it then.

Send them to me Bridget, I'll listen to them and tell you whether you'd like them or not.

[Jules Gray]

I'm even worse with CDs. I must have 30-odd CDs that I've not listened to yet.   I've started buying everything on iTunes (where I can't buy direct from the Artist) as I know I'll listen to it then.

I'm getting to be the same as Bridge with CDs and books.  I have a pile of each, as yet unexperienced.  Back when I was younger and poorer these things just never happened - you bought it, and you devoured it straight away.  Oh the perils of a disposable income....  

Jules

[Philip W]

Nigel Schofield is promoting the book at a literary festival in November:
http://www.adderburyliteraryfestival.co.uk/product/folk-and-fairport/#sthash.RoNkeFBU.IvghRMQ0.dpbs

Swarb has challenged him to a "debate".  

[Jules Gray]

Nigel Schofield is promoting the book at a literary festival in November:
http://www.adderburyliteraryfestival.co.uk/product/folk-and-fairport/#sthash.RoNkeFBU.IvghRMQ0.dpbs

Swarb has challenged him to a "debate".  

Ha!  Nigel would have to be a brave man.

Jules

[hendo (Dave)]

I'm even worse with CDs. I must have 30-odd CDs that I've not listened to yet.   I've started buying everything on iTunes (where I can't buy direct from the Artist) as I know I'll listen to it then.

I'm getting to be the same as Bridge with CDs and books.  I have a pile of each, as yet unexperienced.  Back when I was younger and poorer these things just never happened - you bought it, and you devoured it straight away.  Oh the perils of a disposable income....  

Jules

Interesting.
I have some disposable income but I still have to listen to a CD/new music as soon as I get it . If a CD, straight through one sitting. It goes back to those childhood days, of the 60's,  I suppose of buying a single/album , talking it home and putting it straight on to the 'Dansette', so you could tell your mates about it at school next day. I probably haven't changed!
A new book is read immediately. But I'm retired and can build my days round these things, music is on all the time and there will always be time in the day for a read. e'g this morn 7.30 to 9 ,in bed. Ah the joys of retirement!!!
A 2 CD Family compilation , bought for a quid in a charity shop playing as I write.

[Will S]

I do have quite a pile of new (to me, at least) books to be read, which never seems to get any smaller, but CDs do better.  Usually they have to wait until I have had time to put them on the iPod though, so I can listen to them on the way to/from, or even at, work.

[macademis]

My compulsion is to play CDs as soon as possible, usually as I'm in the car on the way back from the emporia. However, on the occasions that I glut on acquisitions it is impossible to cram them all in one sitting (last week I bought 17 albums in one swoop), I find that I'm getting stressed at not having listened to them all, even if I'm familiar with the content. As for books, I'm still 75% through the Tom Waits Interviews book I started 18 months ago; have Keef's autobiog next, plus a stack of fiction to get through.....and don't start me on the Love Film backlog I'm stacking up.

[GubGub (Al)]

My compulsion is to play CDs as soon as possible, usually as I'm in the car on the way back from the emporia. However, on the occasions that I glut on acquisitions it is impossible to cram them all in one sitting (last week I bought 17 albums in one swoop), I find that I'm getting stressed at not having listened to them all, even if I'm familiar with the content. As for books, I'm still 75% through the Tom Waits Interviews book I started 18 months ago; have Keef's autobiog next, plus a stack of fiction to get through.....and don't start me on the Love Film backlog I'm stacking up.

Oh God, that is me in a nutshell, right down to the stress and the Keef book. I get overwhelmed by the amount of stuff I have to get through and anxious that I have so much new stuff that I may never have time to listen to the old stuff again.

I am currently on holiday and intended to work my way through several books (including Keef) but have hardly picked one up so far.

[Jules Gray]

I set myself the task of reading 5 novels over my summer hols.  I nailed 4 and started the 5th, but since I came home, I've let it slide and am still on that 5th book.  And, yeah, I feel guilty for not reading it.  Every time I do a sudoku or read a magazine I feel bad for not picking that book up.  

Daft, isn't it?  I mean, we should be able to do what we like with our leisure time, but we feel honour-bound to finish things we've started and not to buy books and CDs and just let them sit there until we actually feel like it.

Jules

[Gouty (Gary)]

I have stacks of unwatched DVDs, unread books and unlistened-to CDs on my shelves but I find it a great comfort knowing they are there and that - assuming I don't get knocked down by a bus tomorrow - I have them all to look forward to!   (Heh! I'm just about to start reading Dracula, a copy of which has lain unopened in my possession for over 25 years - now that's what I call delayed gratification!)

Just to nudge this topic back on course, I'm saving Fairport by Fairport for the depths of winter when I shall read it sat next to the fire, a glass of dark ale to hand. Although, having read some of the comments in this thread, I'm hoping I won't be tempted to use it as kindling...  

[Shankly (Peter)]

I have stacks of unwatched DVDs, unread books and unlistened-to CDs on my shelves but I find it a great comfort knowing they are there and that - assuming I don't get knocked down by a bus tomorrow - I have them all to look forward to!  

Thank goodness for that - I thought I was the only one in this situation!

[Mr Cat (Lewis)]

I have somehow managed to keep unlistened to CDs down to a minimum and some of those are reissues of vinyl albums I own..Books and DVDs are a different story, especially DVDs.

[Bridgwit (Bridget)]

Well, I haven't read it yet - not because I've been put off but I simply haven't had the time and I have about 7 other books to read first, all in various states of readness (not readiness!) ie I've started them but not finished them!
I am hoping for more than "and then we did this and then we played there and then we recorded this" type of history. I can accept the odd error on a date or place - very few people have a completely accurate recall (it took me an hour recently to work out which field we camped in at Cropredy since 2004 when we started going!) but I do expect easily verifiable info like places of birth etc to be correct.
I'd like to read it before Christmas though as I will have had it a year by then....  maybe

This encourages me. I take for ever to get around to books, too. I must hav ehad mine a few months before I started it. And don't ask me about CDs.

I'm even worse with CDs. I must have 30-odd CDs that I've not listened to yet.   I've started buying everything on iTunes (where I can't buy direct from the Artist) as I know I'll listen to it then.

Send them to me Bridget, I'll listen to them and tell you whether you'd like them or not.

  such devotion to duty!

[Henry Tompkins (Pete)]

I must have 30-odd CDs that I've not listened to yet.  

If you've got any Bryan Ferry cds Bridget, send them to me. I'll look after them for you.    

[macademis]

Well, I haven't read it yet - not because I've been put off but I simply haven't had the time and I have about 7 other books to read first, all in various states of readness (not readiness!) ie I've started them but not finished them!
I am hoping for more than "and then we did this and then we played there and then we recorded this" type of history. I can accept the odd error on a date or place - very few people have a completely accurate recall (it took me an hour recently to work out which field we camped in at Cropredy since 2004 when we started going!) but I do expect easily verifiable info like places of birth etc to be correct.
I'd like to read it before Christmas though as I will have had it a year by then....  maybe

This encourages me. I take for ever to get around to books, too. I must hav ehad mine a few months before I started it. And don't ask me about CDs.

I'm even worse with CDs. I must have 30-odd CDs that I've not listened to yet.   I've started buying everything on iTunes (where I can't buy direct from the Artist) as I know I'll listen to it then.

Send them to me Bridget, I'll listen to them and tell you whether you'd like them or not.

  such devotion to duty!

I can provide a similar service for food and drink

[Bridgwit (Bridget)]

I must have 30-odd CDs that I've not listened to yet.  

If you've got any Bryan Ferry cds Bridget, send them to me. I'll look after them for you.    

you keep yer 'ands off me Ferrys, Tompkins!