Unfortunately, he cancelled his U.S. tour (slow ticket sales or "scheduling issues," who knows?). He was planning to come to our fair city. U.K. dates are still on.

I'd argue that what Cropredy needs is more 80s acts - the kind of thing that will appeal to people currently in their forties/fifties, because let's face it, the original FC fans and Cropredy attendees are well embarked on their seventies now and are going to be less and less likely to turn up, for multiple reasons.

I'm not quite in my mid-fifties and the 80s are absolutely my era for mainstream pop music. Quite a few of the still-working acts that came out of the 80s are recognised for their songwriting and musicianship and would sit very happily on a Cropredy bill.

I realise that Nile Rodgers and Trevor Horn are strong nods in this direction (and they both have 70s crossover too) but the net could be cast wider.

Well, having spent Saturday at a sea shanty festival on Barry Island, singing with two different choirs (very nice, too) I'm looking forward to seeing young Mr Thompson in Cardiff tomorrow.

I didn't make it that far. Because I have the albums on CD I can't remember which are the bonus tracks. That one is so bad I have always assumed it can't have been part of the original album.

I feel the same about “We’ll Meet Again” on Mr Tambourine Man

I've always thought that Roger/Jim's vocals sound like they're to a completely different track to the one that's being bastardised behind them.  Aye, hilariously bad....

The first two Byrds albums (prompted by recent Mojo article). Oh Susanna must surely be one of the worst things ever recorded by a major band, not least of all because anyone approaching from Alabama with a banjo on their knee should definitely be turned away at the border.

Back after my two week break with a mix of young and (mostly) old including a track from the stripped down version of John and Yoko's Double Fantasy from 2010. So the running order is...

Lindisfarne, The Young 'Uns, The Carrivick Sisters, Nic Jones, Rock Salt & Nails, McGoldrick McCusker & Doyle, Fairport Convention, Tide Lines, KT Tunstall, The Proclaimers, Steeleye Span, Judy Dyble, John Lennon and Joni Mitchell.

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Oh, that thing. OK, thanks.

Jules

But would it?  I suppose a few of us grumpy old 80's and 90s folk-rock Cropredy veterans might have returned for one last hurrah but I'm unsure if that's what this festival needs any more....

But in the smaller kinder friendlier folk-rocking Cropredy festival I'd love to return to it would be absolutely spot on...yes please.