TalkAwhile - The Folk Corporation Forum

Isn't this about the time when we all start coming out with our wishlists for next year...?

with Rob Beatties songwriting featuring so prominently recently perhaps we could have the Alter Eagles ;D

Leatherat again please!

Lindisfarne and Merry Hell, pretty please.

Fisherman’s Friends please.

Thea Gilmore
Leisure Society
Andy Fairweather Lowe
Abbott and Heaton
K T Tunstall
Tradarr
Richard Durrant

DW

The Decemberists (vanishingly unlikely, I know.)
Joshua Burnell
The Rails
Black Country, New Road
Katherine Priddy
Tedeschi Trucks Band (we didn't really get a bluesy artist this year.)
Postmodern Jukebox (leftfield, and also highly improbable, but I think they'd go down well.)

Tradarr
Steeleye Span
Genesis Connected
Legend
Red Hot Chilli Pipers
Peatbog Faeries

OOh yes please.

Merry Hell
Wilco
Gaz Brookfield
Drive By Truckers
Bright Eyes/Conor/Phoebe/Boygenius/Better Oblivion
Trad Arrr
Al Stewart
Ian Hunter
Teenage Fanclub
Oysterband

I'll second Lindisfarne, Trad Arrr and Fisherman's Friends.  
Would also be happy to see Sam Kelly & The Lost Boys back again.
Big Big Train would be wonderful.  
Seth Lakeman for a proper set.  
Show of Hands must be due another turn.
Faustus
Kim Lowings & The Greenwood
Ralph McTell
Spiers & Boden
Gilmore & Roberts
Oysterband
Kaprekar's Constant
Camel
Martin Turner's version of Wishbone Ash
Peatbog Faeries back again too would be great

Peatbog Faeries  Red Hot Chilli Pipers and Skerryvore would make a great bill together
(Unless of course, you can't  stand bagpipes...)

The Haar…. Would be great to have some proper Irish folk here, especially with the
ever  smiling Cormac Byrne… ex Uiscedwr and Show of Hands
Playing Shrewsbury today.

"Proper Irish folk"
You mean as opposed to Sharon Shannon and Clannad???

Lankum would be brilliant.n

Apologies I shouldn’t have said that! 😥

In my best Kevin Keegan voice I'll say that I'd love, really love to see how the "keep politics off the stage" (aka keep left wing politics off the stage) brigade would deal with them.  Bloody marvellous band.  A bit busy raising babies at the moment though aren't they?

I'll third Lindisfarne, Trad Arrr and Fisherman's Friends.  I'd also like to see Bryde and William the Conqueror

I'd love to hear your KK voice! I think we're going to see a lot more bands on their soapboxes in the next few months.

Corvus Corax
Morris On Band
Demon Barbers
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
Jah Wobble (Metal Box in Dub)  :o

Tedeschi Trucks Band
Spiers & Boden
Camel

I agree - they would all be great

Calexico
Robert Plant
Show of Hands

I've always thought Los Lobos or Bonnie Raitt would be excellent choices for Cropredy.

Big Big Train
Bully Wee Band
Morris On Band
...The Albion Band forming to present Rise Up Like The Sun.

Bonnie Raitt would be amazing!

I see on the FC website that there is a small Autumn Tour but no Wintour. Is there any info about this?

The start and end dates are in the programme.

I usually think about who I haven’t seen at Cropredy before, so seconds for Heaton & Abbott and Merry HellAlso

Imagined Village
Simple Minds
Crowded House
False Lights
Steve Earle
Stereophonics
Luke Jackson (why stop inviting the winter support?).

For a superb headliner, Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul. Or even Nile Rodgers. The most popular at
Lytham festival was Bryan Adams who also went down well at Cornbury.

Always felt the envelope needs to be pushed a little with some soul, reggae or especially world music. Jimmy Cliff or Toots and the Maytals (if they are still going). On a separate thread, I suggested Bill Bailey as a different option. I know that comedy can be difficult to please everyone but the strong musical content of his act can help overcome that (I treasure his ragtime version of Stairway to Heaven!)

After the last brilliant Cropredy line up I would like to see a similar mix of genres.

Del Amitri and Elbow as Thursday & Friday headliners. (Assuming getting Faun over from Germany would prove too difficult).

Merry Hell
Amsterdam
Kapreka's Constant
Jamestown Brothers
either Peatbog Fairies or Dreadzone returning.
and Gaz Brookfield all on the bill.
with Becky Mills as the pre Fairport slot on Saturday.

Show of Hands with Track Dogs, as per the Shrewsbury Folk Festival performance.

This partnership takes them in a very different and more challenging, but entertaining direction.

Alas, I don't think this partnership will continue as Miranda is due to return soon, which is great. A real dichotomy for me.

Show Of Hands
Chris While & Julie Matthews
The Stranglers
The Zombies (an ideal Cropredy band who would surprise a lot of people)
The Albion Band 1978 presents Rise Up Like The Sun (with all surviving willing (and yes, un-incarcerated) members present).
Luke Jackson
The Beach Boys (well, we've had Brian so it's Mike & Bruce's turn)
EX-TC featuring XTC's Terry Chambers
Steeleye Span
Yes (despite the politics of the current incarnation, they'd be good for the prog slot)
Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets

Nick Mason's SoS would be a fabulous Thursday or Friday headline act.

Ooh yes. I'm up for that  :D

+1

Oh YES!

Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets - now that would a great headline act

I'll probably not go but if a reformed Ahab, The Ursine Princes and Green Diesel were included in the programme, I might be tempted.

As I mentioned a month or so ago, I recently saw Roger Daltrey live at the Liverpool Empire, with his excellent touring band. Would go down an absolute storm at Cropredy.

Setlists for these shows were great (I'm agnostic on the Leo Sayer cover, mind)...but who was in the band...is it Zak and Pino and Simon or....?

Answered my own question here...just found it...so Simon and his son Ben...and  Doug Boyle (guitar); Geraint Watkins (keyboards); John Hogg (bass); Jody Linscott (percussion); Billy Nicholls (backing vocals); Steve ‘West’ Weston (harmonica), and Katie Jacoby (violin).  Decent band, that!

Howabout a Thursday night of Nile Rogers

DW

Does he still owe them a favour from a few years back:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7951056.stm

DW

Interesting article. I had no idea that Fairport were involved in those shows, or did it not happen in the end?

I've had a Google and can't find any reference to this, but I suspect that was because it was a last-minute booking and all the articles I found are press releases sent out when they sign the big headliners.

I'd love to see Roger Daltrey at Cropredy. I have a brilliant album he did with Wilko Johnson, and he would also be a very welcome guest  ;D

It certainly did and was a great evening. Fairport headlined and did a set of around 30-40 minutes from memory. Rest of the bill was Eliza, Kate Rusby, Set L and Reg Meuross.

That should of course be Seth L

The new album from Embrace is an absolute cracker. Would love to see them headline Thursday night . I am not a singer but with Embrace I just cant help it with virtually every song, love to hear the crowd doing the same.

It was a great gig - here's my own report of proceedings, one of my first ever posts on the hallowed pages of Talkawhile !  :)

"Just got in...a sublime evening of music !!! Eliza Carthy was as entertaining as ever, Kate Rusby (with strings) very polished, Seth Lakeman moved the earth, and Fairport provided a rousing finale. Reg Meuross also played a couple of songs (heard of but never heard him before, would like to hear him again). The evening was expertly compered by Mike Harding, with FC introduced by Simon Mayo (he told the yarn of how FC got the gig in the first place). Highlights of FC's set included Summer in December, Lord Marlborough, WKWTTG featuring Kellie While, a rocking Dirty Linen attached to Matty Groves, and MOTL featuring Kellie and Seth. All in all, a great evening - apart from the excellent music it certainly increased my awareness of what the Teenage Cancer Trust is all about. By the way, The Albert Hall is still a very special place to watch live music, must go there again soon - FC's 45th Anniversary Tour in 2012 ?"

I was thinking Stereophonics are still too big for Cropredy...they are still filling stadiums...but actually I note on a little digging that they do smaller festivals too..mostly though with other more ‘current’ bands for want of a better word! I’d love to see them live...I wonder how they would affect ticket sales?

I would love to see Supergrass back, but they are having a resurgence and at one festival were headlining above the ‘phonics. Also, would like Fleet Foxes.

If we were in borderline fantasy territory, I would like to see Jack White and Father John Misty. Jack headlining and FJ in late afternoon...I am not sure when we will next make it,  but if they were there I would do my best.

More realistically, I agree about Chris While and Julie Matthews, we saw them a few times when we first met, their music means a lot to us.  I don’t know if Sally Barker still does the Joni Mitchell show, which we saw in Halifax years ago, but I would also love to see that at Cropredy as it would be a lovely ethereal singalong.

 

Gong

Steve Hillage

Ryley Walker

Ezra Collective

Probably too big an act but Paul Weller would be an excellent Thursday/Friday headliner

Sally does a “Joni & Sandy” show which I’ve not seen but reviews are good.  

He played three songs from that album at the Liverpool gig, and they nearly lifted the roof off the place!

At least some of the Supergrass fans at Cropredy 2008 were drunk, obnoxious, set fire to their tents and scarpered leaving a very messy campsite. Quite the worst behaved of any group's fans I have ever seen there.

So, Supergrass? No thanks.

Eek nasty! Maybe the fans are more mature 14 years on...I loved their recent performance at Glastonbury ...but down with that sort of thing!

Return visits of :
3 Daft Monkeys
Churchfitters
Easy Star All Stars

New to Cropredy:
Kangaroo Moon (they did the fringe once)
Leylines
Tankus the Henge

Tribute act:
TRextacy

Let's just go nuts and sod the budgetary constraints:

3 Daft Monkeys
Australian Pink Floyd
Banter
Bellowhead
Decemberists / Colin Meloy solo
Elvis Costello
Fish
Frank Turner
Gary Stewart's Graceland band
Gigspanner Big Band
Hawkwind
James Taylor
Little Johnny England
Miranda Sykes & Hannah Martin
Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets
Reg Meuross' "Fire & Dust"
Sea Power
Sparks
Thea Gilmore
TRADarrr

Not forgetting Jasper Carrott instead of that other bloke

"Sparks" , that's a particularly good call , rare , but good

Probably because they are relatively local . On the couple of occasions that we used the low numbered campsites behind the cricket club there were regular gatherings of local teenagers with large supplies of alcohol, many without tickets. Their behaviour was awful (my daughter in law narrowly avoided serious injury from an unopened tin of beans thrown from behind - she hasnt been back since}. The stewards eventually coralled them into an empty field that they named the Creche. I like Supergrass albums but found them boring at Cropredy.

I found Saw Doctors fans to be really bad one year they played.

It was also at the absolute nadir of their career and they ceased business with a year or so.  I thought they were dull as ditchwater.  I watched their recent Glastonbury performance and it was a bit better than the Cropredy show but still nothing special for me.  There's something of a forced jollity to even their best material that makes me want to chuck tins of beans around (it wasn't me, honest).

Supergrass, closely followed by Joan Armatrading, were worst turn I have ever seen at Cropredy

Since
1997 when they headlined the Friday night or 2011?
I thought they were fabulous both times

Yes Joan is definitely better in a smaller venue. I didn't take much notice of Supergrass in 2008 but my niece who was with me enjoyed them. I really enjoyed their set on Glastonbury this year...I felt they had matured and Gaz’s voice in tracks like ‘Moving’ was superb.

Anyway, will strike them off my wishlist for the sake of others’ views tee hee.

We didnt even bother with JA having watched the first ten minutes at another festival. Supergrass were boring but there have been far far worse.

Any chance of The Specials?

Steve Earle
Decemberists
Joe Jackson
Lucy Ward
TRADArrr
Men They Couldn’t Hang (I mean, come on, it’s about time!)
Naomi Bedford and Paul Simmonds

And if wishes really came true:
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds

Having just seen them tonight I'd recommend -

Sons of the East

A fine Aussie ensemble also available for weddings etc...

I would be happy to see  Katherine Priddy also

The Joan Armatrading performance was a real disappointment to me. I saw her in concert the previous year and she was great. I'm not sure every performer is right for festivals.

Didn’t Joan A follow on from a really fine RT set? I remember feeling at the time that the two were in the wrong order, and for her it was a case of the right place at the wrong time.

Saw Supergrass earlier this summer at the Jubilation festival. Seemed to be well received but left me a bit cold other than the odd track. Mind you, they were sandwiched between Squeeze and Madness, both of whom were excellent.

Sparks would certainly be great - just catching up with their Berlin Live frome 2017, shown last night on Sky Arts.

She also suffered from speaker problems, as I recall.

Every chance. They played at Beautiful Days this year.

I shall keep my fingers firmly crossed then!

Having seen them all at Moseley Folk Festival this weekend, I'd add the following to my Cropredy wishlist:

- The Longest Johns
- Midlake
- Yasmin Williams
- Bonfire Radicals
- Kurt Vile
- Jethro Tull (best I've seen them in ages).

Read about five minutes after hearing a mate of mine bemoan how abject they were at A New Day...

Ha ha - well I enjoyed them anyway!

The year Supergrass played was a low point in terms of the general 'feel' of the festival. I don't know how much of it could be attributed directly to people drawn to the festival by Supergrass specifically but we saw fights, fires, crazy driving on the campsites and, if I remember correctly, there were stage announcements advising people to keep their valuables at the bottom of their sleeping bags. It didn't feel like Cropredy at times that year. I thought that the band's attitude to the festival was a bit off too but might have just been my general dislike of them colouring my viewpoint..."Keep our teeth nice and clean....Smoke a fag, put it out"....etc....erm…..okay lads.

I thought they were awful and made no attempt to connect with the crowd. I also remember we spent more time at the fringe that year. It was exceptionally good but I've no idea who we saw! (The beer was good too....  ;D )

Leatherat
Mad Dog Mcrea
Peat & Diesel

The Pretenders as a Friday headliner
Big Country as Saturday afternoon "Special Guests"

DW

Having seen the Wurzels closing the Somerset County Show last Sunday, I (genuinely!) think they could brighten up a Cropredy afternoon rather well. (Tommy Banner is 83 and Pete Budd 82, so they said they've got about another 10 years of performing yet.) Great musicians and still very funny.

100% agree on all of these!

Beausoliel
Elliott Murphy
Ray or Dave (or both !!) Davies
Fab Faux
Carl Palmer's ELP show

Ooooo yes please! I'd be down the front for that  one :)

Whilst we're on the Prog, would be nice to have Rick Wakeman back too, plus any/all of Yes

And if we're looking at Tribute acts, From The Jam features Bruce Foxton and they're absolutely brilliant  :D

What's it called?
P?

Rather cheekily, in the US at least it appears to be called ELP  ;D https://carlpalmer.com/tourdates.php

His website has this information:
Sole surviving member Carl Palmer, in association with the Estates of his bandmates Keith Emerson & Greg Lake, has announced the much anticipated WELCOME BACK MY FRIENDS - THE RETURN OF EMERSON LAKE & PALMER Tour. Launching on Friday November 18th, 2022 at the 2300 ARENA in Philadelphia, PA, the tour will actually reunite ELP LIVE ON STAGE through modern technology.

After exploring the idea of a Hologram tour in detail, Palmer (with the Estates of Emerson and Lake) opted for what they felt was a more honest approach using live footage of Keith and Greg on massive video walls alongside Carl (and his band) playing LIVE on stage. The voice and instrumentation of Greg Lake and the unmistakable keyboard mastery of Keith Emerson will be mixed with Palmer's onstage live drumming to magically reunite ELP once again. Paul McCartney's duet with John Lennon at the end of his recent Got Back tour is a good idea of what ELP fans can expect from this show.

Ok, that sort of makes a little more sense in this current backwards looking universe....

How about John Fogerty for Friday night ?

FC website and newsletter confirms tix on sale from 10:00 Monday 12th December, when some of the confirmed artistes will be announced...

I wait with eager anticipation!

Somehow I doubt he'll project huge images of Tom, Stu and Cosmo during his show. :)

Nice mention of the festival, with photo, in this month's Waterways World as part of a feature on the Oxford Canal.
Few bands can aspire to this..... :) :)

13 hours to go...

I can’t wait to see the line up!

Ticket purchased
Roll on august