Fairport at the Barbican 2009

[Jay Peter]

Chris has the voice to do Swarb's stuff. I'd loveto hear Jack O'Rion again.

 No he hasn't, he may sing in the same register but his voice is sugary sweet while swarb's is full of deviment.
while its always nice to hear the current line up do the classics you cant whack the edge that Swarb's singing gives them

You're absolutely right of course. I meant the register.

[Phil Perry]

Fascinating posts. If it's true that FC approached Chris in 1985, this would strengthen the argument of those who believe that they treated Swarb shabbily - ie having decided to "replace" their most flamboyant member, they then resolved to wreck his "other" band by stealing his Whippersnapper colleague ! BUT I am positive that there are other ways of looking at this. AND clearly the relationship with Swarb was not utterly destroyed - look at Swarb-Aid.