Fairport Convention : Cropredy 1985 feature

BBC feature on the 1985 Cropredy festival, for the program London Plus, broadcast 9th August that year.

Things I'd suggest ignoring - 1. the video quality, 2. the commentary (count the inanities and inaccuracies).

For the rest, there's various musical excerpts from a rare Fairport line-up with Simon Nicol, Dave Pegg, Richard Thompson, Jerry Donahue (singing!), Dave Swarbrick, Dave Mattacks (keyboards) and Bruce Rowland, plus some interesting interviews.

Particularly interesting as they make no mention of reforming the band permanently later the same year, without Swarb.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Fairport
• Convention
• folk
• rock
• Cropredy
• 1985
• Richard
• Thompson
• Dave
• Swarbrick

[BGthedrummer]

Awwwww swarb was at cropredy this year and they played my two favorite fairport songs whilst he was there. one of them is the hanging song and the other is sir patrick spence. :D

[6ninian]

And what's wrong with real beer???

[urbanspacemen]

Priceless. And now it is 25 years even later and we are still meeting on the ledge.

[gone46]

Fab video, Ta for posting it.

I had to do a double take when I saw Jerry singing!

Love those guys.