Cropredy 2025 Wishlist

[Gouty (Gary)]

😁 Actually, I was just trying to 'Irk The Purists' 😉 😘

[PaulT]

Great name for a band, that....

Irk the Purists announce the release of their debut album, "Stuff you, matey".

[Nick Reg]

Husker Du
Captain Beefheart
ELO
Chris de Burgh
Sun Ra
Del Amitri
John Coltrane

How much does an exhumation cost? Ticket prices would go up.

[davidmjs]

Husker Du
Captain Beefheart
ELO
Chris de Burgh
Sun Ra
Del Amitri
John Coltrane

How much does an exhumation cost? Ticket prices would go up.

Multiple exhumations - Grant, Don, Herman, JC - this is gonna bankrupt our heroes...

[Gouty (Gary)]

😂 This is getting out of hand 😂
I was certain my frivolous list would have rung bells with some Talkawhilers, especially one of you two... 🤔 😉
I wish now I'd just said... Michael Ball 🤣

[Nick Reg]

😂 This is getting out of hand 😂
I was certain my frivolous list would have rung bells with some Talkawhilers, especially one of you two... 🤔 😉
I wish now I'd just said... Michael Ball 🤣

Love to see Del Amitri and would have loved the Captain , dont know about the rest.

The fringe is looking OK especially Gaz Brookfield , should be on the main stage, his songs about bullying, diabetes, and talking at gigs are superb.

[davidmjs]

Excellent news from the chaps:

Hello you lovely Cropredy-goers – and to those many of you who made the trip to our collective second home last August, a massive thank you.
We made it – it was squeaky-bum time like never before from a financial point of view right up until a few weeks ago when the dust all finally settled, but I know how many of you heeded our call to persuade a first-timer or two to come along and share the collective joy or to remind a friend who was perhaps so-so about the line-up to trust our judgement and ‘do the right thing’ – and it made the difference. Thank you again, as it means we can have another go.

We’re (just) on safe ground to plan next year in some detail: although the war chest has never looked so bare before. We have reserved what we need to keep the basic infrastructure in place and to pay deposits to our suppliers and the farmers whose fields we enjoy, but in common with all the other independent Festivals in the UK, we face a new and challenging future.

Over the last two summers over one hundred events either cancelled, failed or announced they were having their last hurrah as costs spiralled everywhere they looked and audiences dwindled. The entire landscape has changed with the Big Boys of the industry making their own rules. The major agents now tie their acts into ‘exclusivity’ deals and will no longer even take calls from minnows like us. Those who remember the kind of names we’ve been lucky to inveigle along in the past – Brian Wilson, Alice Cooper, CHIC and the like - will treasure those memories all the more.

However, we feel we know what works for our sector, and trust that you trust us to present a balanced programme of top turns, whether or not the names resonate in the wider ether.

What really matters though, is that for Cropredy 2025, we need to change and reset some fundamentals. We must scale back, simplify and slim down. If this new model works, then we can rebuild and hopefully begin to grow again, but the model which has worked up to now is no longer supportable. This is the way we’re going to go.

The licenced attendance for the festival has always been limited to 20,000. There have been several years when we reached that limit. But that limit has never been just ticket-buyers, as it must include everyone present – all the kids, the site crew, stewards, technicians, traders, musicians and not forgetting Boot and his incredible team who tirelessly clean the loos. Even us in the band!

And whether we sell anything like that number, we’re committed to the accommodation of that number of people: this includes campsites, showers, toilet facilities, safe and secure access routes, security, post-festival clean up and so on. With this in mind, for Cropredy 2025, we’re going to limit the number of paid tickets to six and a half thousand. If this number seems radical and random, please remember we only arrived at it after long and careful modelling and using the experience gathered from making the event work for decades.

The only difference this will make will be the need to book early to be sure of getting your ticket. As they say in the supermarkets, “when they’re gone they’re gone”.

We could describe it as downsizing, but in reality it’s “right-sizing”, certainly for 2025.

For 2025, we shall simply sell a single three day ticket. This will cost £220.00. Camping will still be charged per vehicle, at a unit cost of £60 with our Teens ticket at £90. Under 12s will as ever, be welcomed FOC. Parking may be purchased in advance or on the day for those not camping at £15 for the 3 days.

 

What hasn’t changed (and will never change)
The high quality you rightly have come to expect – whether it’s the sound from the stage, the stalls around the field, the images on the screen, the welcome in the village, the support from all the festival staff.
The music, all hand-picked by Fairport, to provide variety and quality whether it’s a legend you’ve long admired or a new act you’re discovering for the first time.
The community spirit – it’s what you bring with you yourselves every year and which you’ve documented in Richard Houghton’s Cropredy Capers book of memoirs.
One little bit of disappointing news is that we won’t be sending out the Christmas cards we’ve been doing for the last few years – it’s a sad reflection of how painstaking we’ve had to be to ensure continuity – but the good news is that we’ve just enjoyed a happy and successful October four-piece tour and look forward to an even better 2025. There’s so much to be grateful for, being part of this wide Fairport Family – thank you all.

We’re already talking with some of the acts we’re hoping to secure for August 7th, 8th and 9th 2025, and our wish lists are combining well with fresh faces and old friends.

We’ll be opening our box office channels at 10.00 on Monday 9th December as usual so let’s get the party started and those dates in the family diaries.

Love from Simon, Peggy, Ric and Chris

[davidmjs]

This goes in the 'just saying' category...

Roger Daltrey (performing The Who, rarities & solo hits) + Ocean Colour Scene and From the Jam are performing at Dreamland Margate on Fri 8 Aug

[Shane (Skirky)]

This goes in the 'just saying' category...

Roger Daltrey (performing The Who, rarities & solo hits) + Ocean Colour Scene and From the Jam are performing at Dreamland Margate on Fri 8 Aug

'Solo Hits'. Bless.  

[davidmjs]

This goes in the 'just saying' category...

Roger Daltrey (performing The Who, rarities & solo hits) + Ocean Colour Scene and From the Jam are performing at Dreamland Margate on Fri 8 Aug

'Solo Hits'. Bless.  

His early albums are considerably better than decent (imho).  Pete sounds like a pain in the arse to work with (his brother less so, clearly), so I don't blame him.  

[John From Austin]

This goes in the 'just saying' category...

Roger Daltrey (performing The Who, rarities & solo hits) + Ocean Colour Scene and From the Jam are performing at Dreamland Margate on Fri 8 Aug

'Solo Hits'. Bless.  

His early albums are considerably better than decent (imho).  Pete sounds like a pain in the arse to work with (his brother less so, clearly), so I don't blame him.  

I can compile an excellent Roger Daltrey solo playlist that will occupy about 45-60 minutes. Pad that out with Who classics and you have a great concert experience!

[Shane (Skirky)]

I can compile an excellent Roger Daltrey solo playlist that will occupy about 45-60 minutes. Pad that out with Who classics and you have a great concert experience!

Does it have both of his Top 40 singles, or just the one from 1973?  

[davidmjs]

I can compile an excellent Roger Daltrey solo playlist that will occupy about 45-60 minutes. Pad that out with Who classics and you have a great concert experience!

Does it have both of his Top 40 singles, or just the one from 1973?  

There are players with a tenth of the exposure of Daltrey's solo career who happily tour their 'greatest hits'.  Yeah, alright, it's worth a smirk but I still think you're being a bit harsh here...  I'd much rather go and see this than The Who (been, seen, done)...

[John From Austin]

I can compile an excellent Roger Daltrey solo playlist that will occupy about 45-60 minutes. Pad that out with Who classics and you have a great concert experience!

Does it have both of his Top 40 singles, or just the one from 1973?  

There are players with a tenth of the exposure of Daltrey's solo career who happily tour their 'greatest hits'.  Yeah, alright, it's worth a smirk but I still think you're being a bit harsh here...  I'd much rather go and see this than The Who (been, seen, done)...

Implied challenge accepted. Here are about 45 minutes of great RD solo songs:

Giving It All Away
One Man Band
Say It Ain't So, Joe
Avenging Annie
Free Me
Without Your Love
After the Fire
Let Me Down Easy
Under a Raging Moon
Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me (from the Lost Boys soundtrack)

On his solo tours, he often plays covers, obscure Who songs, and Pete solo songs. So you could expect tunes such as:

Going Mobile (sung by Simon)
Imagine a Man
Let My Love Open the Door
The Sea Refuses No River

Finally, he would likely play some of the biggest Who songs:

Who Are You
Baba O'Riley
Pinball Wizard
5:15

He's got a lot to work with!

[RobertD]

It is an interesting proposition…and along the lines of one of my points in the Cropredy thread about cashing in favors, I remember some years back when someone backed out of a Teenage Cancer Trust gig and Fairport stepped in on very short notice if I recall correctly

[davidmjs]

Let My Love Open the Door

I'll have to find an online one of these...intriguing...

[Peter Allen]

Let My Love Open The Door - Pete solo single

[John From Austin]

Let My Love Open The Door - Pete solo single

There is a Youtube video out there of Roger doing LMLOTD fairly recently.

[Shane (Skirky)]

Let My Love Open The Door - Pete solo single

Wasn't Rog quite miffed that Pete kept back some of his best material for Empty Glass? Although I can't see Daltrey doing a convincing version of Rough Boys.  

[davidmjs]

Let My Love Open The Door - Pete solo single

There is a Youtube video out there of Roger doing LMLOTD fairly recently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rZbossRbA4