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« on: November 23, 2004, 12:22:19 PM »

It occurs to me that i have loads of fairport music i do not have a single book. Presumably there have been quite a number written. What would members recommend? And what's best avoided?

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« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2004, 12:51:18 PM »

Just finished  "No More Sad Refrains" the biography of Sandy Denny. Well worth a read.
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« Reply #2 on: November 23, 2004, 12:54:50 PM »

Take a look at this:

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fcfansite/index1.htm

The Humphries' is good ....

And David Hughes' "The Fairport Tour" is indispensable.... and available from your own Folk Corporation shop! (Am I on commission yet, Colin?  Wink)
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« Reply #3 on: November 23, 2004, 04:15:44 PM »

The Ashley Hutchings bio, the name of which escapes me, is very interesting and well written.  Covers the formation of Fairport, Steeleye and the Albions. 
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« Reply #4 on: November 23, 2004, 04:33:40 PM »

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And David Hughes' "The Fairport Tour" is indispensable.... and available from your own Folk Corporation shop! (Am I on commission yet, Colin?  Wink)

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« Reply #5 on: November 23, 2004, 05:04:22 PM »

The Hughes book is REALLY enjoyable: warm, witty and a good insight intolife on the road with Fairport - and that of a support act.....(And I hope the Maldon Muse will be sending in regular reports from the forthcoming St Agnes Fountain tour AND his spring venture with Pentangle)

The Humphries book is a fairly good record of the band up until 1979, though it was his first biography, and the author has since admitted that if he were to do it again he would do it differently. His biog of RT is better, though

The Woodworm Era is fairly lightweight but OK.

The Sandy Denny book I didn't really take to for some reason, though it's quite comprehensive I found it a bit "snide'.


The Guv'nor (Ashley's biog) was well-written and very informative.


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« Reply #6 on: November 24, 2004, 08:59:38 AM »

I have a pretty old one called "Unscrapbooking" - which is just a huge collection of Fairport articles produced by Martyn Kenny who used to run something called "Friends of Fairport".

Whatever happened to them? I still have the T shirt somewhere.

Anyway the scrapbook goes up to around the early 80's I think.
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« Reply #7 on: November 24, 2004, 09:29:23 AM »

Friends of Fairport still exists... has been run by Ian Burgess for many years now.

Ian usually runs a stall at Croppers, but this year decided not to as it could have been the last...  wonder if he will in 2005.

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« Reply #8 on: November 24, 2004, 09:42:29 AM »

The Hughes book is REALLY enjoyable: warm, witty and a good insight intolife on the road with Fairport - and that of a support act.....(And I hope the Maldon Muse will be sending in regular reports from the forthcoming St Agnes Fountain tour AND his spring venture with Pentangle)

The Sandy Denny book I didn't really take to for some reason, though it's quite comprehensive I found it a bit "snide'.

The Guv'nor (Ashley's biog) was well-written and very informative.

Despite the feelings of some members of the board concerning Ms rydeR, I personally found her winter tour diary amusing.
The Sandy Denny book I have mixed feelings about.  It seems to be attempting to be a critique of Sandys life and work, however it does tend to get snarled in personal comments and this detracts from the central theme.  Still worth a read though as an insight into Sandys life and the development of Fairport.
Sorry to ramble but never been much good at expressing opinions such as these via the written word!

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« Reply #9 on: November 24, 2004, 12:36:09 PM »

Fairportfolio by Kingsley Abbott is really good

If you can find a copy

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« Reply #10 on: November 24, 2004, 12:53:57 PM »

Fairportfolio by Kingsley Abbott is really good

If you can find a copy

Jude

It is as well Jude. Similar to 'Unscrapbooking' but with Kingsley's memories etc included as well. Perhaps of limited appeal in that it's within a small timeframe - up until the crash - but for those wanting to read a bit deeper into the early days, it's a smashing book.

For anyone interesting in getting hold of a copy I reckon your best bet is direct from Kingsley.

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« Reply #11 on: November 24, 2004, 12:58:50 PM »


And David Hughes' "The Fairport Tour" is indispensable.... and available from your own Folk Corporation shop! (Am I on commission yet, Colin?  Wink)

Ordered.  Wonder what's on the "free CD"
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« Reply #12 on: November 24, 2004, 01:04:03 PM »

There are ten tracks of David from the FC winter tour  ('98).. taken from recordings at various venues.

My fav on the CD is 'Hold Your Horses Woman'... the 'Tango' song!!

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« Reply #13 on: November 24, 2004, 01:05:48 PM »

Walter Heger wrote a book about the history of Fairport Convention. It has about 400 pages. Walter knows absolutely everything about the band. It is very well written, very informative with a complete discographie of everybody who ever played in the band.

But - it is in German.
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« Reply #14 on: November 24, 2004, 01:22:25 PM »

Any chance of a translation Ulla???

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« Reply #15 on: November 24, 2004, 01:28:15 PM »

If you give me until Christmas next year I might be able to translate it.

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« Reply #16 on: November 24, 2004, 01:33:44 PM »

We could always scan it with an OCR system and then feed it to a translation program.
That should make for a bizarre read  Huh
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« Reply #17 on: November 24, 2004, 01:46:28 PM »

I can forsee "Small Woodlands Matt" making a re-appearance  Shocked  Smiley
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« Reply #18 on: November 24, 2004, 01:57:27 PM »

i seem to remember it as" few woodlands matty"but what the hell, go on do it
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« Reply #19 on: November 24, 2004, 04:52:29 PM »

Going off topic but I only know "few woodlands matty".

Few Woodlands Matty
A holiday, a holiday and first of the year
Lord Darnell, woman into the church,
Into which gospel for came to hear
And as the session it had taken place, into it, threw their eyes approximately
and there saw it few woodlands Matty and home went into the mass
"Come with me, few woodlands Matty, come home with me this evening
If you come home with me, few woodlands Matty and sleep with me to light"
"Oh, I can come not home, do not come I not home and sleep with you this evening
by the rings on your fingers I can explain to you, woman"

"What, if I am woman of the Lord Darnell,
Lord Darnell of the lord Darnell
Not at home for him am out in the far Cornfields that am,
Which get home the Jaehrlinge"

And an official, that being available was hearing
And which he was mentioned lord Darnell swore,
Which, he would know, before the sun would adjust
and into its haste for carrying the messages, bent it its chest
and came as he ran to the expanded thousandth stream,
removed he its shoes and he swam

Few woodlands Matty, lays down he and took few sleep
As if it woke up, was to lord Darnell at its feet saying the fact that
"How you like my feather/spring bed and like to do you may do my pages?
How do you do, like you my lady, are situated in your sleeping levers?"

"Oh, I like recess your feather/spring bed and - recess,
Which I like, your pages however
Me likes your lady homosexual improves,
Who is appropriate for lord Darnell in my sleeping levers "

"Well, is up, " cried, "get so above fast up,
How it to be able!
It is never said in appropriate England that I turn a bright man ",
"Oh, cannot I not rise, do not rise I not, can I not for my life span
For you rise two blade struck for a long time and I do not have a pocket meter",

"Well, that is applicable it I two struck blade
And them to cost me deeply in the fund,
But you have the better of them and I have that false",
"And you fasten the all first impact and it to fasten like you a man,
Whom I fasten the very following impact and I terminate you,
If I fastened box",

Then Matty the all first impact
And he hurt wound of the lord Darnell.
Lord Darnell did not fasten the very following impact
And Matty did not fasten.

And then lord Darnell took his wife and he sat her on his knee
Saying that "Who do you like the best of us, of woodlands Matty or from me? ",
And then spoke its own dear wife, never belongs up, to speak the freely,
"I'd rather a kiss of the dead lips Matty as it or you finery. ",

Lord Darnell, which it branched above and loud bawl
It fastened, it its woman wife by the inside and it was against the wall fixed.
"A grave, a grave, " lord Darnell cried,
"To used these loving into however buries my lady at the top side
For it was from the splendid trunks".




As can be found on the mailing list website. http://www.mcvax.org/jghall/fairport/fc.html?

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