EDITOR’S NOTE: As 2018 comes to a close, we’re looking back at some releases from the year that we didn’t get a chance to write up when they were released. Fairport Convention’s What We Did On Our Saturday live album was released in June. […]
It is not often you come across a Gaelic rapper, a musician in 1970s knitted jumper surfing a crowd in an inflatable boat, and, well, The Beach Boys. But it does happen. This year’s Cropredy festival (officially Fairport’s Cropredy Convention) […]
It is not often you come across a Gaelic rapper, a musician in 1970’s knitted jumper surfing a crowd in an inflatable boat, and, well, The Beach Boys. But it does happen. This year’s Cropredy festival (officially Fairport’s Cropredy Convention) […]
Have you found your official song of summer yet? We’ve heard plenty of new music that’s getting our feet dancing over the hot pavement, and we love sharing those finds with you (and hearing about them from you, too!). Look […]
“Come all ye rolling minstrels, and together we will try to rouse the spirit of the earth…” as goes the Fairport Convention anthem and title of this magnificent seven CD set of 131 tracks. And they do. Released tomorrow, July […]
My record collection was once filled with so many great bands who formed in the 1960s and 1970s that some got short shrift. My mistake. Then, a few years ago, I finally went to see Savoy Brown for the first […]
Guess I could be more accurate with my numbers, but I think you get the idea. We’re somewhere around a third of the way into this year and I thought it was a good time to flip through the bin […]
As the standard-bearers for British folk-rock since the late 1960s, Fairport Convention has proven itself both the least stable and the most stable of musical institutions. Now well into its fourth decade, Fairport has run through almost a dozen lead […]
