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« Reply #120 on: February 21, 2011, 12:10:05 PM » |
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On a personal note, please don't let Peggy sing (other than backing or duetting.  It's a strange thing isn't it. I thought his harmonies and backing vocals were terrific on Saturday night but it just does not work as a lead voice. But if Ringo got a song on every Beatles album and Keith gets one on the Stones records I'm sure we can allow Peggy to sing occasionally. It doesn't last long.  |
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« Reply #121 on: February 21, 2011, 12:11:38 PM » |
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I was at the Union Chapel too. I've been there quite a few times and I've never heard the sound as bad as it was when the set started on Saturday. To my mind, the initial problem was simple - it was too loud! Maybe I'm getting old, but the sheer volume was killing the music. It did settle down though.
"Babbacombe Lee", my favourite FC album, was excellent, some of the harmonising was superb. The new songs were much better than I expected and "Rui's Guitar" seems to have taken several strides forward since last year's Cropredy. It's the first Wintour I've been to, somewhat shockingly, and I really enjoyed it. Nice to see the chap with the trumpet (whose name I can never remember) at the end - is he a regular fixture?
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« Reply #122 on: February 21, 2011, 02:16:32 PM » |
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The guy who played the trumpet was Edmund (Whitcombe, I think). He guested on MOTL with FC last time we saw them at the Union Chapel. He has played several times at Cropredy ... see the Fairport@Forty DVD ... sublime Red and Gold. I like what he adds to the sound but then I do have a soft spot for brass, especially the trumpet as that was Dad's instrument of choice - he used to say if you can play one you can play the lot  Really looking forward to Colchester tomorrow night. I've waited a long time for this ... although I'm not expecting Chris While to turn up! Re: Wintour 2006 Set?
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I'd like to see the first half completely made up of old material - a mixture of very old and very rarely played songs/tunes. (Babbacombe Lee or L & L would fit the bill nicely but I'd settle for other stuff!) Chris While as guest singer.
The second half would be completely made up of new material - a combination of songs/tunes written by band members and non-band members, with a few 'new' traditionals thrown in.
The encore would consist of Matty Groves (done in the way Jim describes) and Meet On The Ledge.
I know it won't happen because it would require much rehearsal time, which has not been available as most band members have been busy with other projects right up to Christmas.
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« Reply #124 on: February 21, 2011, 04:34:55 PM » |
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« Reply #125 on: February 21, 2011, 04:54:04 PM » |
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Cambridge was indeed excellent, and I agree with most of what JJ said (I quite like Peggy's voice). Kat and Jamie were incredible, will definitely look out for them in future. Jamie's guitar playing in particular was astounding. Babbacombe Lee was excellent; hearing the whole thing live really helped bring out the deeper meaning of the songs and really helped me empathise with Lee. The new stuff was also good, though it was nice to return to familar ground at the end. As a musician, Albert & Ted made my brain hurt. Good to see Dianne and JJ at the end, and to have a chat with Chris again. |
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« Reply #126 on: February 21, 2011, 05:25:50 PM » |
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Had a great time in Cambridge last night, coffee at Carluccios and a box of amarreti brought for me, then onto the gig, enjoyed very much, the first full Fairport gig I have ever attended. Loved Babbacombe Lee, loved the new stuff and the old stuff, struggled with WKWTTG, only heard it sung with female vocals before. Loved the curtains in a sale last week line, and watching a steward hovering ready to tell Kat off for taking pics on her mobile, Steward got all the way over to her side of the auditorium only for Kat to put it away and go back stage again. |
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« Reply #127 on: February 21, 2011, 07:21:18 PM » |
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Kat and Jamie - excellent. The song about her grandfather, 'Travelling in Time' was beautifully observed, and heart-breaking in the images it evoked. As for Fairport - I think it's the best I've seen them play for years! I'd have gone home happy after BL, but there was a second half too! Wow!! The intensity and power of Chris' singing seemed to reach new levels in BL..........stunning. It wasn't safe, it wasn't cosy......(words that have been levelled at them recently).........it was new, innovative, along with the usual excellent musicianship. IMO - they just ROCKED!! (I would like to hear Ralph singing WCH with them - with a bit less 'jolly playing' - although this version is growing on me .) I wonder what dad will make of it next week?? |
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« Reply #129 on: February 22, 2011, 11:45:37 AM » |
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« Reply #130 on: February 22, 2011, 11:57:13 AM » |
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Whoever wrote that also needs to look up the definition of falsetto...
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« Reply #131 on: February 22, 2011, 12:36:58 PM » |
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I am amazed that such lazy nonsense gets through any editorial meeting - since whern was Bonny Black Hare a hit ffs, and I would be prepared to lay good money there were hardly any aran sweaters on show. Well, there was one Aran sweater there, being worn by the GLW, although technically it is mine but knitted by her. It was a chilly evening! It really is a pretty rubbish review - but then the Standard is now a freebie so any editorial standards it might have had have been trimmed to the bone. |
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« Reply #132 on: February 22, 2011, 01:00:48 PM » |
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Well, there was one Aran sweater there, being worn by the GLW, although technically it is mine but knitted by her. It was a chilly evening!
Tim ,its people like your GLW that reinforce stereotypes, did the folk fashion police(clancy brothers branch) not advise her to change into something less comfortable? seriously bad and lazy revue in the rag |
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« Reply #133 on: February 22, 2011, 02:35:15 PM » |
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I just found this rather short review of the Morecambe gig though it does show the cavernous interior of The Platform quite well. Imageacoustic are also local promoters who have brought Show of Hands and Martyn Joseph to Lancaster. http://www.imageacoustic.com/index.php/the-platform-morecambe/If you search for "The Platform" and scroll down there are more photos of the chaps plus Kat & Jamie. Good pic of Ric (no 33). |
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« Reply #135 on: February 22, 2011, 02:41:59 PM » |
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operatic storytelling A nod to Babbacombe Lee I suspect. It is being constantly referred to as a folk rock opera. It is actually no such thing. It is a song cycle. Possibly. |
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« Reply #136 on: February 22, 2011, 03:28:46 PM » |
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operatic storytelling I'm getting some disturbing images in my head of a Fairport video a la Bohemian Rhapsody.  |
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« Reply #137 on: February 22, 2011, 03:31:38 PM » |
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GubGub:
Almost certainly my fault. I sometimes use the phrase in my introduction, using what I consider are vocal parentheses, heavily ladled with self-deprecating irony.
Can't help it if a reviewer borrows my shorthand. Not even Swarb would have imagined he was writing something in the pantheon of Verdi or Mozart..
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« Reply #138 on: February 22, 2011, 04:01:03 PM » |
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GubGub:
Almost certainly my fault. I sometimes use the phrase in my introduction, using what I consider are vocal parentheses, heavily ladled with self-deprecating irony.
Can't help it if a reviewer borrows my shorthand. Not even Swarb would have imagined he was writing something in the pantheon of Verdi or Mozart..
My comments were not in any way intended as a criticism Simon. BL seems to be routinely referred to as an "opera" in print. I remember Pete Townshend having similar issues with "Tommy". I'm not sure who started that particular argument but you are in good company. |
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« Reply #139 on: February 22, 2011, 04:14:56 PM » |
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It's quite extraordinary to me that people get so confused about what constitutes an opera. There is, as far as I am concerned, definitively only one "opera". Which is to be found here. I'm sorry, Simon, you just can't compare. (Although you could show this at a Cropredy break ) |
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