I've always liked this photo of the 'Full House' line-up since I first got the Patrick Humphries book many eons ago.
One of those where I wish I was there, it looks so good-vibey....however on realising where it was taken tonight, maybe I'm glad I wasn't.
http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/krumlin-mud.htmlRT quote:
"We were talking about a festival we did, , Danny ( Thompson ) used to be in the P Angle ( Pentangle ) and we were all doing a festival in Britain . Someone had the great idea of doing a festival on the Yorkshire moors !. Youv'e read Emily Bronte " Heathcliffe . Heathcliffe ( makes thunder sounds )" Cathy, Cathy ". Buckets of rain you know, festival was in July . Midsummer festival. what a great idea ! , lets do an outdoor festival on the Yorkshire moors !. They were carting the audience away with exposure, everyone was dressed in those bin liner things . It was geat fun .
For some reason or other everyone was totally legless backstage. We all got very silly. Fairport were doing their set and we noticed Simon Nicol our rhythm guitar player. We were doing a very sensitive old Irish ballad. ' A Bonnie Bunch Of Roses" . Charming ballad. Simon was playing an Indian Raga in a different key. Very strange, that's funny Simon . He was in his own world , he was sitting cross legged in front of his amp in another world . So we had to sort of kick him and unplug him. Simons still playing those ragas ( with Fairport )"
And less savoury Peggy, from an interview with Folkmaster:
"If I could be remembered for one thing - Well I did have a nasty accident at the Krumlin Festival in the 70's when I was wearing a pair of white trousers. I had rather too much to drink and when I got on stage I actually shat myself which was very embarrassing as the back of my white trousers changed colour very quickly. Behind me were all the other acts that were on, including Elton John who wasn't very famous at the time and The Move who were people that we knew from Birmingham. I was a laughing stock. It was incredibly embarrassing and I couldn’t turn around to adjust the volume on my amp because the audience would have seen the brown mass that was attached to my arse and would have know for sure what had happened."
Folkmaster: So they never knew?
"The audience never knew. In fact the Festival was a complete disaster, it all went terribly wrong for us. Dave Swarbrick didn't actually s**t himself on stage but was desperate for a tiddle and there was this hole in the canvas on the stage. He went over to the side of the stage, stuck his chopper through the hole and had a waz. Unfortunately the press area was on the other side of the hole and consequently we’ve never been popular with the Melody Maker since 1970, which I think was the last time they gave us a review."
It should be noted that, contrary to the story, Peggy is not wearing white trousers in the on-stage black and white photo.
Cheers
Nick
