Strawbs  :  Grave New World Live   ( Witchwood Records LP,  red vinyl,  2026).  


500 of these and no mention of a CD release at the moment.

It was recorded before an audience, who were  requested  not to applaud, a few years ago.

The sound is good and the music faithful to the original album,  which imo  represents the band at their musical  and creative  peak.   Some people  may not like the spoken word links between tracks, which  are new.  These are delivered by a songwriter who went by the name  John Wesley Harding, and who  I saw play some years ago,  supporting someone - don't recall who.

TAW is written in PHP, but is very old code that will only run on old PHP.

So a patch would probably kill TAW. Then again the vulnerability might only be on new versions. Whatever, if it gets hacked no new version is available.

I saw Brian Maxine when he joined Swarb, Peggy & Simon for a few numbers, at Dingwalls in '74. DM was in the audience calling for Matty Groves. Ho, ho.

Maxine's appearance at Cropredy 1982, sharing vocals on '6 Days on the Road' with Trevor, is at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wgtxNZ7mhI&list=RD4wgtxNZ7mhI&start_radio=1

I think the 'Fairpets' were Linda T and Phillipa Clare, who was their manager for a while and was listed on the appearences website.

Wasn't it on one of the 'official bootlegs' from that era?

That sounds great, loved to have been there.

Huw Williams at Barry Folk Club last night. A packed house (it's a small room, but it's the most I've seen in there!) Huw was wonderful. Great songs, very funny stories and all in all, a thoroughly enjoyable night. A couple of Fairport links - He played 'Summer Before The War' and encored with 'Rosemary's Sister'.

Tonight, 9pm 'til 11pm : Scattering The Roots with Dan Ogus...two hours of the finest folk, roots, blues, etc...plenty of etc...

Back after last week's football-related hiatus...

I've rifled through my vaults to bring you some excellent music both new and vintage every Wednesday evening...

This week's show features the following artists :

Fine Lines, Sam Lapides, The Bacon Brothers, Garth Brooks, Anna Grindle, Carla Gover & Friends, Dan Whitehouse, Jacob Everett Wallace, Mike Guiney, Molly Pinto Madigan, Inge Lamboo, Track Dogs, Rita Bliss, Callum Pitt, Eddie Skuller, Harbottle & Jonas, Clare Sands, Chris Clark, Cammy Barnes, Aruba Red, Judee Sill, Dave Sutherland, David Celia...

Listen tonight, 9pm 'til 11pm on Portsmouth's Express FM, on DAB and online here :
https://www.expressfm.com/programmes/scattering-the-roots/

I'd recommend people try and catch Ophelia's Beard, on the Saturday. They are quite something!

Full line up on the Beardy Festival website. And it's pretty impressive.

Almost 20 years later...

Brian Maxine was mentioned on Antiques Roadshow on Sunday evening this week. His widow brought along some of his items, including one of the albums, and the Fairport connection was acknowledged.

(I've just listened to the Ribbon of Stainless Steel album and it is, er, not very good).