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on: Today at 11:00:41 AM
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| Started by Will S - Last post by Nick Reg | ||
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RT last night in Stoke. Absolutely brilliant , one of the best. We seemed to get about 10 minutes longer than other gigs reported, partly due to a shouted extra encore request of Vincent. Beeswing and Vincent were both fab, definitely two of my faves. Nice to see/hear some rarely played oldies too. Zac was great Wishbone Ash eat your heart out. Also bumped into old school chum and ex RT and Clive Gregson roadie Paul Owen who was desperately trying to find the new Tour Manager to get backstage. Recommended to all despite the high ticket price. Nick Mason at the same venue next week then on to Beardy.
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on: Today at 10:53:42 AM
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| Started by bassline (Mike) - Last post by hendo (Dave) | ||
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PLEASE EVERYONE … Buy your tix this year so that we can all be there again next year! The thought of losing Cropredy is horrifying!! 😥😥😥 Hi Jenny , at the risk of sounding like a Trump supporter MCGA , ( make Cropredy great again!) there have been some very interesting comments on here re people’s feelings about Cropredy. We all have our fave times for different reasons. I had a big gap between early 80’s and mid 90s . 95, I had met Sheena and we did our first Cropredy together, in the awning of a friends caravan ! Caravan field! 96 , we were sitting in a local pub , our backs to a couple and I heard the words Fairport. I turned round and we chatted music for 1.5 hours . They became very firm friends. From then on we were part of 18 people ( it varied) who travelled in convoy from S Leics to field 2. Special times. Friendships . 2 day fest so Thurs was spent in the village. Trad lunchtime pint on the gravestones by Red Lion , quiz from the Canal club . Camped in a circle in field 2 , gazebos, village hall tables, candelabra, white picket fence , gnomes! People were kidnapped and forced to drink wine if they invaded our space, some stayed for hours!!!!!! These were the days when the fest was stewarded by volunteers ……you could wander on and off main field before it opened. I stood with 30 others watching RT sound check whilst he asked what we wanted to hear……30 mins of Vincent , Beeswing etc. So of course the fest changed when Peggy and Christine split, when it became a 3 day fest, when pro security arrived and when the Thurs night headliner became more important than Fairports. We went cos it was Fairports Fest. Yes of course I’m an old f**t , wallowing in nostalgia but they were halcyon days. Many of those friends have gone, aged, moved, died.Travelling and being with those friends, listening to music, some new to me, were special times. I thought Cropredy would always be important but as has been said, people, tastes and fests change. My Cropredy went a long time ago. 2012 ,Sheena didn’t want to sit in seried ranks , we had lost friends , other fests called. Lamar Tree, Folk in a Field, Ely, NFFF, Langdale, Festiva on the Edge, Warwick, camebridge, Magpies……. I came to Cropredy on my own for a few years .camped opposite Bridge stores. Made new friends…. I saw Fairports tour last yr when Mattacks had put them on good form … So, I hope it happens. I hope you have a wonderful time. With real affection for the past and the fest… Just a quick comment on the fact that the festival used to have volunteers and now there’s professional security. Firstly the festival was so much smaller so getting the required amount of volunteers was relatively easy. Secondly and more importantly, as the festival grew thieves from Banbury used to steal from the campsites when everyone was in the concert field. Therefore to stop this happening professional security were hired which stopped the problem immediately. Now all fields are manned and you have to show your wristband to enter a camping field. Having said that my experience with the professional security men and women has been great. Everyone has been friendly and liked a laugh and a joke. I hope that clears up why it’s professional security that are now employed. No probs. I completely understand why pro security happened, I was simply listing changes, As you said the fest grew, it changed, my point really….Sadly our initial interactions with security were not as tempered as yours were. In tge ensuing yrs, when the security realised the nature of the fest it did stop being bouncers at a night club and became more relaxed. |
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on: Today at 10:48:23 AM
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| Started by bassline (Mike) - Last post by hendo (Dave) | ||
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A very special yr ……and we were all missing Maart!
http://fclist.org/cropredy-cropredy-line-ups/cropredy-1997 |
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on: Today at 10:47:39 AM
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| Started by bassline (Mike) - Last post by Andy Leonard | ||
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PLEASE EVERYONE … Buy your tix this year so that we can all be there again next year! The thought of losing Cropredy is horrifying!! 😥😥😥 Hi Jenny , at the risk of sounding like a Trump supporter MCGA , ( make Cropredy great again!) there have been some very interesting comments on here re people’s feelings about Cropredy. We all have our fave times for different reasons. I had a big gap between early 80’s and mid 90s . 95, I had met Sheena and we did our first Cropredy together, in the awning of a friends caravan ! Caravan field! 96 , we were sitting in a local pub , our backs to a couple and I heard the words Fairport. I turned round and we chatted music for 1.5 hours . They became very firm friends. From then on we were part of 18 people ( it varied) who travelled in convoy from S Leics to field 2. Special times. Friendships . 2 day fest so Thurs was spent in the village. Trad lunchtime pint on the gravestones by Red Lion , quiz from the Canal club . Camped in a circle in field 2 , gazebos, village hall tables, candelabra, white picket fence , gnomes! People were kidnapped and forced to drink wine if they invaded our space, some stayed for hours!!!!!! These were the days when the fest was stewarded by volunteers ……you could wander on and off main field before it opened. I stood with 30 others watching RT sound check whilst he asked what we wanted to hear……30 mins of Vincent , Beeswing etc. So of course the fest changed when Peggy and Christine split, when it became a 3 day fest, when pro security arrived and when the Thurs night headliner became more important than Fairports. We went cos it was Fairports Fest. Yes of course I’m an old f**t , wallowing in nostalgia but they were halcyon days. Many of those friends have gone, aged, moved, died.Travelling and being with those friends, listening to music, some new to me, were special times. I thought Cropredy would always be important but as has been said, people, tastes and fests change. My Cropredy went a long time ago. 2012 ,Sheena didn’t want to sit in seried ranks , we had lost friends , other fests called. Lamar Tree, Folk in a Field, Ely, NFFF, Langdale, Festiva on the Edge, Warwick, camebridge, Magpies……. I came to Cropredy on my own for a few years .camped opposite Bridge stores. Made new friends…. I saw Fairports tour last yr when Mattacks had put them on good form … So, I hope it happens. I hope you have a wonderful time. With real affection for the past and the fest… Just a quick comment on the fact that the festival used to have volunteers and now there’s professional security. Firstly the festival was so much smaller so getting the required amount of volunteers was relatively easy. Secondly and more importantly, as the festival grew thieves from Banbury used to steal from the campsites when everyone was in the concert field. Therefore to stop this happening professional security were hired which stopped the problem immediately. Now all fields are manned and you have to show your wristband to enter a camping field. Having said that my experience with the professional security men and women has been great. Everyone has been friendly and liked a laugh and a joke. I hope that clears up why it’s professional security that are now employed. |
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on: Today at 10:10:57 AM
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| Started by bassline (Mike) - Last post by hendo (Dave) | ||
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PLEASE EVERYONE … Buy your tix this year so that we can all be there again next year! The thought of losing Cropredy is horrifying!! 😥😥😥 Hi Jenny , at the risk of sounding like a Trump supporter MCGA , ( make Cropredy great again!) there have been some very interesting comments on here re people’s feelings about Cropredy. We all have our fave times for different reasons. I had a big gap between early 80’s and mid 90s . 95, I had met Sheena and we did our first Cropredy together, in the awning of a friends caravan ! Caravan field! 96 , we were sitting in a local pub , our backs to a couple and I heard the words Fairport. I turned round and we chatted music for 1.5 hours . They became very firm friends. From then on we were part of 18 people ( it varied) who travelled in convoy from S Leics to field 2. Special times. Friendships . 2 day fest so Thurs was spent in the village. Trad lunchtime pint on the gravestones by Red Lion , quiz from the Canal club . Camped in a circle in field 2 , gazebos, village hall tables, candelabra, white picket fence , gnomes! People were kidnapped and forced to drink wine if they invaded our space, some stayed for hours!!!!!! These were the days when the fest was stewarded by volunteers ……you could wander on and off main field before it opened. I stood with 30 others watching RT sound check whilst he asked what we wanted to hear……30 mins of Vincent , Beeswing etc. So of course the fest changed when Peggy and Christine split, when it became a 3 day fest, when pro security arrived and when the Thurs night headliner became more important than Fairports. We went cos it was Fairports Fest. Yes of course I’m an old f**t , wallowing in nostalgia but they were halcyon days. Many of those friends have gone, aged, moved, died.Travelling and being with those friends, listening to music, some new to me, were special times. I thought Cropredy would always be important but as has been said, people, tastes and fests change. My Cropredy went a long time ago. 2012 ,Sheena didn’t want to sit in seried ranks , we had lost friends , other fests called. Lamar Tree, Folk in a Field, Ely, NFFF, Langdale, Festiva on the Edge, Warwick, camebridge, Magpies……. I came to Cropredy on my own for a few years .camped opposite Bridge stores. Made new friends…. I saw Fairports tour last yr when Mattacks had put them on good form … So, I hope it happens. I hope you have a wonderful time. With real affection for the past and the fest… |
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on: Yesterday at 11:59:57 PM
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| Started by Will S - Last post by Andy | ||
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Saltlines, performed by Raynor Winn and the Gigspanner Big Band at the Subscription Rooms in Stroud.
A word on the premises: impressive Some words about the performance: a folk rhapsody, perhaps even a folk tone poem in the first half. All the musicians pulled their weight and Raynor Winn was an interesting speaker and very friendly to chat with afterwards. It was an unusual evening and all the better for that. |
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on: Yesterday at 09:36:22 PM
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| Started by JJ (Joanna) - Last post by Martin F | ||
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Has Pastie defected? To Northern Kin (I think it was), which is the same weekend this year. yes Northern kin moved from May BH to same weekend as Cropredy due to weather issues and waterlogged ground. As it stands Trev is attending Northern kin.............. In the process it caused another festival to cancel for the year though.  |
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on: Yesterday at 08:32:31 PM
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| Started by bassline (Mike) - Last post by JJ (Joanna) | ||
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I got bored with FC themselves who didn't seem to be putting much effort into the Cropredy sets for the last few years. It started the year they ran out of material with about 15 minutes to go. The Saturday sets became the winter tour with a guest or two thrown in and not a lot of spontenaity.. The other thing is due to my feet and knees I can't do standing gigs, never mind 3 days in a field in all weathers, anymore. I miss seeing the friends but, at 71, not the pain. Festivals carried on happily without me before I went to Cropredy for the first time in 1997, I hope it managed to carry on, probably changed somewhat without me. Jim you've said it word for word for me. Haven't been now for 10 years, the line up just doesn't appeal, it's such a lot of money we can have a weeks holiday for that! I love and cherish the good times and line ups we enjoyed as a family. |
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on: Yesterday at 06:14:00 PM
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| Started by Alan2 - Last post by PaulT | ||
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"Coral Island" by The Coral.
A strange way to approach this one... a few months ago, I spotted 2 Coral CDs ("Mare Di Specchi" and "Holy Joe's Coral Island Medicine Show") going cheap in HMV, so bought them both. I subsequently read that these were a natural progression from the original 2CD release, so I purposely haven't listened to either of them. It took a while, but I finally tracked down a copy for sale at a decent price. I've just started listening to CD1, and I'm enjoying it. Very melodic. I have to admit I don't remember much about The Coral at Cropredy in 2011 - either I missed them or I was "ver' ver' drunk at the time"... |
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on: Yesterday at 06:05:50 PM
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| Started by Will S - Last post by PaulT | ||
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Dimming of the Day is one of my all-time favourite songs.
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