Fairport Convention - Seventeen Come Sunday

Fairport Convention (Simon Nicol, Dave Pegg, Dave Mattacks, Ric Sanders, Chris Leslie) perform Seventeen Come Sunday on Ken Russell's 'English Folk Song'. Footage from Woodworm Studios (owned at the time by Dave Pegg) and the Cropredy Festival 1997.

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Music

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• Fairport
• Convention
• Cropredy
• 1997

[Sorrowarrior]

Beginning: To a recording studio where ?????? ... Yeah.. I don't understand what's going on with this video, but it's a pretty cool song nonetheless.

[sirpatrickspens]

Woodworm Studios in Oxfordshire, owned at the time by Dave Pegg (FC bass player).

[Stevewoodworm]

I bought that house (and studio) from Dave Pegg. It's still open!

[LadybirdGryphon]

They are also very friendly and approachable - and they appreciate their fans. Ric (fiddler) actually asks about my family when I see him - I don't know how he can remember all that info, except that he cares.

[proudaltome]

Love the goofy Morris dancers (is there any other kind?) A bit of fun, which is how folksters should be.

[HammerOvThor]

Most awkward thing I've ever seen.

[Northernspotter101]

Woodworm studios is this were the woodworm bop came from ?

[yugster78]

this version totally sucks compared to Carthy and Wartersons version Go and set fire to your gonads in shame!!

[ambracinque]

Wonderful music! Greetings from Italy.

[Fergyguitar]

Great band, although I haven't seen them for a while. I agree that they are terribly approachable, I had a great afternoon drinking with Peggy in the Half moon in Putney before a gig years ago. Nice guys and great musicians.

[Baruchyoseph8]

Wonderful.

[Wolfsonian]

@LadybirdGryphon I'll second that. I've spoken at length with Ric and Chris, and they're both diamond geezers. Both were tremendously generous with their time before a gig some years ago, encouraging my daughter to carry on with playing the violin. She's still playing! And they remembered her the next year, too ....

[DisgustingArsehole]

I was always led to believe this was an Irish song from hearing the also excellent Bothy Band version, however I recognize the tune here from Vaughan Williams' suite of English folk songs so I guess it must be English!

[roachnumber1]

I was in the audience when they filmed that fantastic band to go see live.

I remember everyone chanting " you fat bastard" to the direcer, ken russell, while he was trying to "direct" 30,000 drunken fans