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« Reply #40 on: November 06, 2016, 08:26:20 PM »




As I said before (perhaps elsewhere) the only tradition at Cropredy that really matters is that Fairport finish the festivities. Everything else is up for grabs. If, as ChrisB suggests, this may mean an additional slot for the Fairport family, I'm sure many will be in favour, even if it is only for one year.


Maybe we could have a Jeremy C supergroup with Corbyn, Clarkson, and that chap from the Levellers.

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They could do a Johnny Cougar song, with a four and a half minute solo by John Cage in the middle?
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« Reply #41 on: November 06, 2016, 09:09:12 PM »



What pray tell, has Jeremy Corbyn's views got to do with all this? Gawd help us.  


I've already explained this, Pete.  Digance is no lefty, and neither, it would seem, is Mr Blagden.  Some of Digance's detractors clearly are, and it is after all his political leanings that seem to disturb most of the feathers that he ruffles.

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Thank you Jules, you beat me to it and put my view more articulately than I could.
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« Reply #42 on: November 06, 2016, 09:18:36 PM »





As I said before (perhaps elsewhere) the only tradition at Cropredy that really matters is that Fairport finish the festivities. Everything else is up for grabs. If, as ChrisB suggests, this may mean an additional slot for the Fairport family, I'm sure many will be in favour, even if it is only for one year.


Maybe we could have a Jeremy C supergroup with Corbyn, Clarkson, and that chap from the Levellers.


...and Jasper Carrott.  Grin


They could do a Johnny Cougar song, with a four and a half minute solo by John Cage in the middle?


And then Jesus Christ could turn all the water into Wadsworth 6X.

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« Reply #43 on: November 06, 2016, 11:38:05 PM »

Seems that those that care really care a little too much.

Seems those that don't care really don't care.

Coming at the moment from a country were divisive is the new norm I was hoping for a little calm here, hey ho.

Seems like Digance has made his own choice for his own reasons and those that want him to play want him to play. Not much anyone can do about that apart from accept his choice.

Of course the conspiracy theorists will read into it what they will.

The truth is that Mr. Digance has joined a socialist commune and cannot admit he has realized he was wrong all along. Shocked Shocked
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« Reply #44 on: November 07, 2016, 02:03:35 AM »

15,000 people will cry into their white hankies (since they've no other use for them now...)

Seriously, I do think it's a bit sad. I have immensely enjoyed him over the years and fitted in his gig as part of the annual ritual (Burger on the bridge, car boot sale, Digance...)

And yes, he is a political dinosaur, and an uber-sensitive prat, But he's also immensely talented, a superb singer-songwriter, raconteur and guitarist IMHO. So I'll put up with the rest, as many thousands of others do. It should be remembered that the demographic of this particular forum is skewed away from the overall Cropredy demographic (especially given his rather personal and puerile antipathy towards it).

But hey ho, it's hardly going to put me off buying my ticket. maybe whoever takes over the slot should, in some bizarre kind of deference, include their own tissue-waving slot at 12.45. Then that could become a real Cropredy tradition that would transcend fickle individuals...
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« Reply #45 on: November 07, 2016, 07:43:35 AM »



 But he's also immensely talented, a superb singer-songwriter, raconteur and guitarist IMHO.



I'm missing something here. IMHO.  
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« Reply #46 on: November 07, 2016, 08:02:43 AM »

Not being a member of Facebook or any other forums, does this mean that he will not be back after next year?
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« Reply #47 on: November 07, 2016, 08:09:19 AM »


Not being a member of Facebook or any other forums, does this mean that he will not be back after next year?
At the moment all he has said is that he won't be there in 2017 as he'll have just completed an 80-gig tour and is taking August off.
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« Reply #48 on: November 07, 2016, 09:04:07 AM »



Not being a member of Facebook or any other forums, does this mean that he will not be back after next year?
At the moment all he has said is that he won't be there in 2017 as he'll have just completed an 80-gig tour and is taking August off.


Thanks, Andy.
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« Reply #49 on: November 07, 2016, 09:04:19 AM »

Well I'll miss him. I find him very funny and a great start to the Saturday, as do thousands of others. I'd much rather have a laugh  Cheesy  than a moan  Angry
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« Reply #50 on: November 07, 2016, 12:18:28 PM »




 But he's also immensely talented, a superb singer-songwriter, raconteur and guitarist IMHO.



I'm missing something here. IMHO.  



From his website.  He must be doing something right to have lasted so long.

Richard is a BAFTA Nominated  entertainer and a Gold Award recipient from The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters. He is also listed in the Virgin Anthology of Music as an influential writer of comedic songs. Not many guitarists have played a duet with Queen's Brian May, worked with Steve Martin, played an acoustic set with Status Quo or performed at The London Palladium with the late Robin Williams, Richard has 3 million YouTube hits, 27 albums and a Golden Anniversary Tour, 50 years of songs and stories, coming in 2017
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« Reply #51 on: November 07, 2016, 01:31:16 PM »





 But he's also immensely talented, a superb singer-songwriter, raconteur and guitarist IMHO.



I'm missing something here. IMHO.  



From his website.  He must be doing something right to have lasted so long.

Richard is a BAFTA Nominated  entertainer and a Gold Award recipient from The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters. He is also listed in the Virgin Anthology of Music as an influential writer of comedic songs. Not many guitarists have played a duet with Queen's Brian May, worked with Steve Martin, played an acoustic set with Status Quo or performed at The London Palladium with the late Robin Williams, Richard has 3 million YouTube hits, 27 albums and a Golden Anniversary Tour, 50 years of songs and stories, coming in 2017
It never ceases to amaze me when people who don't like someone can't understand why other people do! I can't stand Cliff Richard but he has thousands (maybe millions) of fans across the globe. It doesn't make them wrong, or me wrong for that matter.
RD is a seasoned performer. So what if he does hold views to the right of the political spectrum? that's not a crime and obviously doesn't bother FC in any way as they still book him and rave about him and what a good friend and performer he his.
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« Reply #52 on: November 07, 2016, 02:08:45 PM »


It should be remembered that the demographic of this particular forum is skewed away from the overall Cropredy demographic


Really? I have always thought that TAW was a pretty broad church.

The folk music community however (to generalise enormously) seems largely liberal centre left leaning, not least because much of the traditional music is rooted in the experience of and is sympathetic to the working man and that chimes with the sensibilities of such an audience. In a crowd of 20,000 people you will of course find the full diversity of viewpoints but it has always seemed to me that the Cropredy audience largely conforms to that demographic.

RD stands out because his views are at odds with that ethos. However, he probably does not view himself as being part of the folk tradition.
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« Reply #53 on: November 07, 2016, 02:11:49 PM »


I'd much rather have a laugh  Cheesy  than a moan  Angry


Are those the only alternatives?

How about laugh or dance?
Laugh or sing?
Laugh or picnic?
Cake or death?  Wink
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« Reply #54 on: November 07, 2016, 02:47:03 PM »



I'd much rather have a laugh  Cheesy  than a moan  Angry  


Are those the only alternatives?

How about laugh or dance?
Laugh or sing?
Laugh or picnic?
Cake or death?  Wink


It's about context and personal beliefs, isn't it?  If somebody said to me "read this article in The Sun, it's really funny", and I read it and actually found it not only not very funny, but actually offensive, then the other person's insistence that I've got no sense of humour or that I'm just a moaning git will probably result in two people who can't understand each other at all.

Still, "you gotta laugh", as they say.

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« Reply #55 on: November 07, 2016, 03:34:34 PM »




I'd much rather have a laugh  Cheesy  than a moan  Angry  


Are those the only alternatives?

How about laugh or dance?
Laugh or sing?
Laugh or picnic?
Cake or death?  Wink


It's about context and personal beliefs, isn't it?  If somebody said to me "read this article in The Sun, it's really funny", and I read it and actually found it not only not very funny, but actually offensive, then the other person's insistence that I've got no sense of humour or that I'm just a moaning git will probably result in two people who can't understand each other at all.

Still, "you gotta laugh", as they say.

Jules


Indeed, though what I was really, satirically trying to get at was the implication that the only alternative to Mr Digance's presence is for everyone to be miserable.
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« Reply #56 on: November 07, 2016, 04:00:10 PM »

Oh my!! I was staying out of this.
Richard has done the lunchtime spot at Cropredy since 2002.
Some people liked him some didn't.( for varied reasons).
So there were 23(??!) Cropredys before him and this yr he has chosen not to do it.
End of.
An opportunity for the  return of the mighty Chuckletruck? Shocked Huh Grin
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« Reply #57 on: November 07, 2016, 04:36:01 PM »

Bring back Captain Coco's Country Dance Band!  Smiley
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« Reply #58 on: November 07, 2016, 05:26:42 PM »

Cake or Death.

Now there's a mantra I can shout from the barricades!!!
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« Reply #59 on: November 07, 2016, 05:45:58 PM »


Cake or Death.

Now there's a mantra I can shout from the barricades!!!
I like it  Cheesy

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