This was the best Ashley discography I ever found. But no, I never attempted to collect them all.

https://mainlynorfolk.info/guvnor/records/

Jules

Has anybody ever attempted to collect everything Ashley has released?  

Apart from the obvious (Discogs etc., which are always unwieldy, often inaccurate/incomplete, and sometimes difficult to interpret when the releases are so plentiful) what is the best published one?  

There's a sort of discography in the Free Reed box if you piece together the partial one (incidentally, does everyone else's copy of the book within it have multiple repeated pages in it?)...but I think it's far from complete.

But has anyone else attempted a personal one?

Ha!  There are many far far worse Fairport albums than Gottle.  How about a box set with that, Swarbrick and Swarbrick 2 and a bit of live stuff on it?  Sell about 8 copies of course, but hey...

ps Geer

Rising For The Moon which I've downloaded from 7digital. It comes with a freebie of the Live at the LA Troubadour 1974 album. You also get a few demos plus an alternative version of Dawn and a live recording of White Dress.

I wonder how they'll be celebrating fifty years of Gottle O' Gear next year..?  

My thoughts on last night in Liverpool, the last night of the tour, and Peggy's birthday (yes, of course we did).

3rd time I've been to the Tung - really great venue (but make sure you don't sit in B-E, the first 5 rows are flat, which always catches people out), great sound, great ambience.

We had Danny Bradley, given a home town gig after his heroics on the Winter tour, as support again (he's bloody impressive, not quite my thing, but really memorable tunes played in a very unique finger picking, guitar as percussion kind of stylie), so we had the he introduced Fairport and they came on and played his last number thing.

Then off...the setlist was I think near identical to that which Peascod posted a few days ago (copied below), with, I think (I'm no expert on the recent material) no Moses Waits

Walk a While
Crazy Man Michael
Banbury Fair
Fotheringay
The Year of 59
Moses Waits
I’m Already There
Steampunkery
The Hiring Fair

The Festival Bell
Slip Jigs and Reels
The Banks of the Sweet Primroses
Bankruptured
Lallah Rook
Doctor of Physick
John Gaudie
Who Knows Where The Time Goes
Matty Groves

Meet On The Ledge

I have to admit to skipping out after WKWTTG - I've seen enough Mattys and MOTL and I wanted my bed and to avoid the scramble.

First time I've seen this 4-piece (I did once see a F(A)C with no Peggy in it) and it was much as I expected.  Massively impressive, beautifully played, 'great', utterly appalling stand up routine from Ric, but for me, just crying out for DM to add a little dynamic thrust into the equation.  Folk-rock sans drums (even percussion like Gerry used to do on the Autumn dates) just doesn't wash.  So, I can't help but feel a little disappointed.

Having said that, I allowed myself to enjoy much of it including material I don't normally go for, like Lallah Rookh.  That>Docter of Physick>John Gaudie>Time was a brilliant sequence.

So, how to summarise?  Well, I'm very much looking forward to the Spring tour...

As for the Tung, still just about toying with Steeleye later in the month...

Fairport, for the last night of the Autumn tour, in about 20 minutes...

Let's hope they're back next year.

Boo Hewerdine and Reg Meuross at the small but perfectly formed The Globe at Hay (on Wye) on Thursday.

Despite a small audience, their enthusiasm was infectious and the audience rapidly joining in and having fun created a great atmosphere.

We had a great time, so if you can get to see them on their brief current tour, so do it!

We had previously bought Reg's Stolen from God album and bought Boo's collaborative album/book with Yvonne Lyon, Things Found In Books and it's very good, too.

Scottish folk singer Archie Fisher, yesterday at 85 yrs