Let's talk Music, Personal Taste and other stuff like that

[Karen]

Colin, Lord David of Essex, and the other Mods - give us a flavour of your musical tastes by answering the following:

1.  What radio station do you listen to the most?
2.  What two live acts were the best you'd seen in 2004?
3.  What Sunday paper do you read, if any?
4.  How did you first get into
    (a)  Fairport
    (b)  Cropredy
5.  What was the last CD you bought?
6.  What woman, apart from yours truly, should be given the job of managing the England football team?

Karen

[Paul]

Only a very minor Mod, but I was online when you posted karen, so here goes.

1.  What radio station do you listen to the most?
Radio 2 or Ocean FM

2.  What two live acts were the best you'd seen in 2004?
Difficult. Show of Hands, 3 Generations, Fairport, Baka Beyond and probably several more.

3.  What Sunday paper do you read, if any?
None.

4.  How did you first get into
    (a)  Fairport
A group of friends played Babbacombe Lee in a school assembly.

    (b)  Cropredy
Picked up a leaflet at a Fairport Gig years ago.

5.  What was the last CD you bought?
Show of Hands, Country Life.

6.  What woman, apart from yours truly, should be given the job of managing the England football team?
Do England have a football team?

Paul

[Karen]

Thanks Paul.  Great answers.  I'm beginning to get to know you    Come on Colin and other Moderators, speak up.

love
Karen

[YaBB Master (Colin)]

Karen you vixen you.

1.  What radio station do you listen to the most?

Radio 2, then 6 Music, then Radio 4

2.  What two live acts were the best you'd seen in 2004?

David Hughes at The Mill. I know I'm biased, but it was fantastic. Second The Family Mahone for exceeding all expectations.

3.  What Sunday paper do you read, if any?

I've given up on the news in general. Actually, if I want to read the background on someting I go to the BBC web site. I subscribe to WIRED.

4.  How did you first get into
    (a)  Fairport
    (b)  Cropredy

Fairport. Many years ago.

5.  What was the last CD you bought?

Buy a CD, how does that work? OK a Guy Clark two-for. Wonderful. & Tom Russell 'Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs'

6.  What woman, apart from yours truly, should be given the job of managing the England football team?

Chris Pegg. If she could organise Dave and run Cropredy, a football team should be simple.

[mikec]

If Paul is a minor mod then I'm a very mini mod so won't begin to answer the questions but I have to give the YaBBmeister respect for his last 2 answers.

MikeC

[Karen]

Oh, come on Mike    We won't bite.  Give us a clue and post your answers.

love Karen

[Barry]

1.  What radio station do you listen to the most?

Radio Three, Radio Four, Classic FM

2.  What two live acts were the best you'd seen in 2004?

David Hughes

While & Matthews

3.  What Sunday paper do you read, if any?

None

4.  How did you first get into 
    (a)  Fairport

A friend dragged me along to see them at Greenwich Borough Hall on the assurance that "they are just like Steeleye"  Tickets were 50p.  It was the "Live Convention" line-up with Sandy.  I hated it.  (Obviously I changed my mind later)

    (b)  Cropredy

Was there in 1979 for the farewell and went back every year until 2002 when I realised that I didn't like the festival any more for reasons that we have discussed in other places on the board.  I have no inclination to go to another one.

5.  What was the last CD you bought?

Spires & Boden - "Through & Through":  totally superb 

6.  What woman, apart from yours truly, should be given the job of managing the England football team?

Anna Ryder

[Nick]

Colin, Lord David of Essex, and the other Mods - give us a flavour of your musical tastes by answering the following:

1.  What radio station do you listen to the most?
2.  What two live acts were the best you'd seen in 2004?
3.  What Sunday paper do you read, if any?
4.  How did you first get into
    (a)  Fairport
    (b)  Cropredy
5.  What was the last CD you bought?
6.  What woman, apart from yours truly, should be given the job of managing the England football team?

Karen

Ooh, erm, ah, erm, lets see...

1. Mornings, Radio 4. Late afternoons/evenings, Radio 2. Other times BBC 6 Music. I would listen to 6 more but I don't have digital radio in the car.

2. Best, by a country mile, Bellowhead. They're touring next year. Go see them!!! Second Best, ooh that's difficult. I enjoyed Black Nielson's gig last night so I'll say them as they're fresh in my memory. If I have to think about that then I'll never choose.

3. I read news on Yahoo. The only papers I read are Private Eye and Big Issue which are both weeklys.

4. a. First see 'b' below: then as a student I saw a poster advertising 'Fairport Convention, featuring Dave Pegg from Jethro Tull' and thought I like Tull, lets check them out finally.

4. b. My Brother went to Cropredy in the mid Eighties. I was only interested in Rock at that stage so I declined the offer. He went the next year, by which time I was into Tull and Richard Thompson and had heard of this Fairport lot but that coincided with Queen playing at Knebworth. So I went to see Freddie et al instead. I made it the third time, by which time I knew all about Fairport etc as part of the Island cannon (from RT through Nick Drake and John Martyn - it was all falling into place.)

5. Rachel Goswell, Waves Are Universal. Ben Christophers, The Spaces In Between. Sandy & Trevor, Attic Tracks 1972-1984. (I had an Amazon session.)

6. My best friend. She's a mum of 2, recently earned a PhD, holds down two extremely senior roles in the oncology pharmacy sphere, sits on two different major oncology pharmacy committees, presents papers on the subject at international symposiums and still has time to attend the Sidmouth festival each year. Managing a football team should be a breeze!

Cheers

Nick

[mikec]

Oh go on then  

1.  What radio station do you listen to the most?
Radios 2, 4 & 5 Live as well as 198LW for the cricket

2.  What two live acts were the best you'd seen in 2004?
Show of Hands and Family Mahone

3.  What Sunday paper do you read, if any?
Times if any for the cricket/rugby

4.  How did you first get into
    (a)  Fairport
Cant remember that far back   but remember getting Babbacombe Lee for Christmas one year (at my request) and have never looked back (so to speak)
    (b)  Cropredy
Saw a TV programme about it on ITV late one night and wrote to Ian Burgess (The Ledge) as a consequence of watching the credits.

5.  What was the last CD you bought?

Songs of the Back Bar. The Family Mahone at their gig last week in Warrington

6.  What woman, apart from yours truly, should be given the job of managing the England football team?
Rebeeca Loos   (well i am a Scot after all)

[Sandra]

Colin, Lord David of Essex, and the other Mods - give us a flavour of your musical tastes by answering the following:

1.  What radio station do you listen to the most?

Radio 4 (day) and 6 (night)

2.  What two live acts were the best you'd seen in 2004?.

Difficult, but I have to come down on Bellowhead at Oxford Folk Festival and FC at Chipping Norton

3.  What Sunday paper do you read, if any?

Sunday Times (travel section first)

4.  How did you first get into
(a)  Fairport

After seeing them at Bath festival 1970   

(b)  Cropredy

Dragged there by one of our students 2 years ago (much against my better judgement, but now very glad I went)
5. 

What was the last CD you bought?

Kirsty MacColl 'The One and Only' (to replace worn out tape)
6. 

What woman, apart from yours truly, should be given the job of managing the England football team?

Me. I am really good at managing men. I could get rid of them in a week then we could start again (though I would then resign and let somebody who knows what they are doing take over)
Sandra

[Karen]

Chris Bates, come out from behind that camera.  I know you're in there, so come out with you hands up.

Answers pronto, darling, or I might have to extract them by force - and you wouldn't like that 

Peel probably hasn't come across papers, radios and CDs so I might let him off.  Might, I say

Karen
drumming fingers impatiently

[MAJ]

1.  What radio station do you listen to the most?

Radio 2, Jazz FM, Classic FM

2.  What two live acts were the best you'd seen in 2004?

Pentangle back in April.  That was one of the best concerts I've ever been to.
Ralph McTell - who else!

3.  What Sunday paper do you read, if any?

None.

4.  How did you first get into
    (a)  Fairport
    (b)  Cropredy

(a) Via getting into Ralph McTell, John Martyn, Don McLean, Bob Dylan etc etc
(b) I haven't yet.......

5.  What was the last CD you bought?

Jacqui McShee - About Thyme
Another version of Mahler's 8th Symphony (having sung in it a couple of times it blows my mind every time I hear it)

6.  What woman, apart from yours truly, should be given the job of managing the England football team?

Kim Woodburn (How Clean Is Your House).

Will that do, Karen?  Oh and I think Sir Bob really should answer the questions too.  I'd hate for him to feel left out....

Cheers,

Marianne

[peluche (Chris)]

Interesting thread.

Could it not be opened up to us mere-mortal-non-mod types 
Cheers, Chris

Colin says: It's Karen topic, so we should let her start it elsewhere (after we've finished here). Maybe it's on-topic enough for the Fairport section.

[Folkie (Jen)]

Right, here we go....

1.  What radio station do you listen to the most?
    BBC 2 radio

2.  What two live acts were the best you'd seen in 2004?
    Fairport and Simon Care Trio/John Tams

3.  What Sunday paper do you read, if any?
    ehmm..... the one we should get every Sunday.....

4.  How did you first get into
    (a)  Fairport
    (b)  Cropredy
    Ok.... I first went to Cropredy when I was about 2. But of cousre, I did not know what it was about then.... All I remember is that I 
    absolutely loved being in that field every August. But I would say it really started when I first went on the school exchange.
    I met this boy who was wearing a Cropredy t-shirt and I started talking to him. He said how wonderful so-and-so's
    singing/fiddling/drumming etc was and I just had no idea who he was talking about.
    So by the time I went on the exchange in my second year I had learned most of their songs and got familiar with the names and faces
    related to Fairport. And then we have met up at Cropredy ever since. 

5.  What was the last CD you bought?
    OTNH

6.  What woman, apart from yours truly, should be given the job of managing the England football team?
   

[Mark]

As a minor mini moderator (known as mental a mentor) like our own MikeC, I submit for your approval:

1.  What radio station do you listen to the most?
    I don't often listen to music on the radio..... but Radio 4, Radio 7, World Service, Five

2.  What two live acts were the best you'd seen in 2004?
     SoH & Ms. Carthy

3.  What Sunday paper do you read, if any?    Times

4. How did you first get into

    (a)  Fairport
          a very long story but could be summed up briefly by admitting to a schoolboy crush on one of DP's daughter's friends!

    (b)  Cropredy
          Cropredy was one of the twin centres  of the universe when I was a schoolboy in Bloxham

5.  What was the last CD you bought?
     Planxty - Planxty (part of an ongoing vinyl replacement programme).

6.  What woman, apart from yours truly, should be given the job of managing the England football team?
     Mrs Mark. They wouldn't be very good, but they would be VERY well turned out.......

[Cocker Freeman]

1.  What radio station do you listen to the most?

Radio Four. Radio Five Live on Saturday for the football.

2. What two live acts were the best you'd seen in 2004?

Helen Watson and Snow Patrol

3. What Sunday paper do you read, if any?

None. Read the paper's website - bookmarked: Telegraph, Guarniad and Observer

4. How did you first get into
 (a) Fairport
 (b) Cropredy

a) Liege and Leif
b) Went to Broughton Castle

5. What was the last CD you bought?

"The Streets"

6. What woman, apart from yours truly, should be given the job of managing the England football team?

.

Anji.

[Karen]

This is getting very intriguing and interesting.

But I still haven't heard from Alezed, John, Amethyst, JJ, pugwash, Lumpy Golightly, Batesy, and ....oh, go on then if we must, Bob.  Ces has been hiding behind the pot-plant in the snug, too - come out you wimp and tell it like it is. 

love
Karen

[Ces]

Colin, Lord David of Essex, and the other Mods - give us a flavour of your musical tastes by answering the following:

1.  What radio station do you listen to the most?
2.  What two live acts were the best you'd seen in 2004?
3.  What Sunday paper do you read, if any?
4.  How did you first get into
    (a)  Fairport
    (b)  Cropredy
5.  What was the last CD you bought?
6.  What woman, apart from yours truly, should be given the job of managing the England football team?

Karen

First off, I ain't no moderator - I'm too young, too wild, too free...and I wasn't very good at it

But I do like opening me yap!

1) Talk Sport - like 5Live but populated by the inarticulate (MY people) & The Archers (R4)

2) David Hughes at the Banbury album launch & Family Mahone (more fun than fun-time in Fun-ville during Fun-week)

3) Totally promiscuous - or used to be. Since the puppy arrived I just buy ALL the ones that provide a lot of paper...though I only read the football pages and attempt the crosswords.

4) Got into Fairport via Tull. The day FC disbanded they also played Knebworth - Pegg was interviewed on Radio I about his new job (it was news in thiose days). Bought a few albums. Played "Farewell, Farewell' every day for a year and went to the first reunion in 1980. Tickets were cardboard and cost £3.50. Don't know about the beer I was only just turned fifteen and a novice to the ale-world...have tried some now though

5) Can't remember - tend to do a lot of bootleg-swapping (Not Taiwanese copies of "Wood & The Wire' but "live concert material' ).... But could have been "Over The Next Hill'...No it wasn't!! Swarb's "It Suits Me Well' - truly magnificent....I'm a fan of his you know

6) You can't have a chick managing a football team. It's not right! And may even be illegal Same goes for commentators, officials or reporters. The concept of them playing is amusing though ...And they make nice teas

[Pugwash]

I'm only a mini-mod can't remember what for now Pirate activities???

1.  What radio station do you listen to the most?

Obviously any Pirate Radio that might be operatin. Can't stand Radio 2 makes me feel old. Will not listen to Woegone. My Dad liked him!!

2.  What two live acts were the best you'd seen in 2004?

Lindisfarne, Old Rope String Band

3.  What Sunday paper do you read, if any?

Pirate Sunday Times

4.  How did you first get into
    (a)  Fairport
    (b)  Cropredy

Someone had Babbacombe Lee at college. Grew to like it! Had seen the chaps for years and Crops seemed the next step.

5.  What was the last CD you bought?

Easy The Essential Bruce Springsteen. 2CD a snip at £7.97 in Tesco

6.  What woman, apart from yours truly, should be given the job of managing the England football team?

Our Nursery Teacher. She would explain what they have to do very simply. Get the ball and put it in that net with your feet. Simple.

Puggs  

[jOhN]

Colin, Lord David of Essex, and the other Mods - give us a flavour of your musical tastes by answering the following:

1.  What radio station do you listen to the most?
2.  What two live acts were the best you'd seen in 2004?
3.  What Sunday paper do you read, if any?
4.  How did you first get into
    (a)  Fairport
    (b)  Cropredy
5.  What was the last CD you bought?
6.  What woman, apart from yours truly, should be given the job of managing the England football team?

Karen

I suppose, as I'm a mod in the Arms Club bit, I'm allowed to answer!!!

1. R2, Century 106 or 6 Music
2. Family Mahone, Oysterband
3. Star, Mirror, Sport
4. (a) Got convinced to go to Cropredy 10 years ago by some friends (It took 2 years to persuede me)
    (b) See (a)
5. SlipKnot - Subliminal Verses
6. My Mum.....Cos she's the Best!!!!!