Fairport t-shirt reactions

[Paul]

I used to teach in a secondary school. Every non-uniform day I would wear a Fairport Convention t-shirt. My HoD ran a charity competition, with a prize for any student who could identify the band. Sadly, nobody ever won it. Ironically, now I teach in an FE college, loads of students have heard of Fairport Convention, but we don't have non-uniform days.

Slightly off topic. I once went to buy a mandolin in a local music store wearing an Iron Maiden t-shirt. The salesman said he didn't realise Iron Maiden fans could play the mandolin.

Paul

[hendo (Dave)]

I used to teach in a secondary school. Every non-uniform day I would wear a Fairport Convention t-shirt. My HoD ran a charity competition, with a prize for any student who could identify the band. Sadly, nobody ever won it.

Paul,slightly off topic but  82 I was head of  5th Year in a secondary school.
I  wanted to make a real point about drug use.
I got David Kossof to come and do his one man show about the death of his son Paul (soz for teaching my granny) The 'show' was incredibly powerful.
I found I had to do an assembly weeks before he arrived explaining who Paul Kossof was.
I had seen Free prob 10 yrs before, it seemed very recent.
At the end of the yr one of the girls who was leaving school and who I had worried about going seriously off the rails, came and saw me.She gave me a copy of Back Street Crawler signed by some of the harder kids in the yr. Kids I had really worked on. Lots of thank you's.
 Still got that album and cover.

[davidmjs]

I used to teach in a secondary school. Every non-uniform day I would wear a Fairport Convention t-shirt. My HoD ran a charity competition, with a prize for any student who could identify the band. Sadly, nobody ever won it.

Paul,slightly off topic but  82 I was head of  5th Year in a secondary school.
I  wanted to make a real point about drug use.
I got David Kossof to come and do his one man show about the death of his son Paul (soz for teaching my granny) The 'show' was incredibly powerful.
I found I had to do an assembly weeks before he arrived explaining who Paul Kossof was.
I had seen Free prob 10 yrs before, it seemed very recent.
At the end of the yr one of the girls who was leaving school and who I had worried about going seriously off the rails, came and saw me.She gave me a copy of Back Street Crawler signed by some of the harder kids in the yr. Kids I had really worked on. Lots of thank you's.
 Still got that album and cover.

That's a nice story    I was in the fifth year in '82-3 and David did the show at my school.  It was, as you say, very powerful stuff.  But as a 15 year old, stuff that happened 6 and more years before seemed liked ancient history!

[hendo (Dave)]

I used to teach in a secondary school. Every non-uniform day I would wear a Fairport Convention t-shirt. My HoD ran a charity competition, with a prize for any student who could identify the band. Sadly, nobody ever won it.

Paul,slightly off topic but  82 I was head of  5th Year in a secondary school.
I  wanted to make a real point about drug use.
I got David Kossof to come and do his one man show about the death of his son Paul (soz for teaching my granny) The 'show' was incredibly powerful.
I found I had to do an assembly weeks before he arrived explaining who Paul Kossof was.
I had seen Free prob 10 yrs before, it seemed very recent.
At the end of the yr one of the girls who was leaving school and who I had worried about going seriously off the rails, came and saw me.She gave me a copy of Back Street Crawler signed by some of the harder kids in the yr. Kids I had really worked on. Lots of thank you's.
 Still got that album and cover.

That's a nice story    I was in the fifth year in '82-3 and David did the show at my school.  It was, as you say, very powerful stuff.  But as a 15 year old, stuff that happened 6 and more years before seemed liked ancient history!

That , sadly, makes you a lot younger than me!
At a recent fairport gig, i met  4 people in their mid 30's i used to teach but they were there cos i'd gone on about Liege and lief in english lessons almost 25 yrs ago!
They expected me to be there.

[Poor Will (Bill)]

Currently on holiday in Barbados.
I wore a Cropredy shirt to breakfast and within 5 minutes we were talking to a couple of  Cropredy regulars from Banbury.

[Ian W]

When  was living and working in Greece a few years ago, I had a lot of conversations started by my band t-shirts.
At least three bars had downloaded Fairport and RT albums because of the memories the expat old hippies had jolted.
Mythos, retsina and a freshly caught fish lunch taste great with What We Did On Our Holidays in the background.

I also performed a few classics with a friend who played in one of the live music bars.

[Joss]

A customer visiting the Kent Family History Fair in Maidstone on Sunday was wearing a Cropredy T-shirt and admitted to being a regular!