bb@wjh12.UUCP (12/17/84)
If you like the music of Fairport Convention, check out the album entitled `Fotheringay' (ca. 1968); basically the same crew.
Jonathan Delatizky <DELATZ%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC.ARPA> (12/24/84)
There is a book on Fairport Convention written by Patrick Humphries (c) 1982 that describes the band's history, and answers all the Big Questions about them. The book is called Meet on the Ledge, and is published by (!) Eel Pie in London. It appears to be absolutely unobtainable on this side of the Atlantic. I have seen it, and it has lots of information and pictures and other necessities for the Fairport addict (there are a few). Those people enamoured of Fairport would also do well to look for Morris On, done by a motley bunch of Fairport regulars, occasionals, and other Electric Folk Names. It's now obtaiable from Carthage, reissued and better pressed. There's also Sone of Morris On, not as good but still not half bad. There's also The English Dancing Master, a similar compendium to some of the Morris On stuff, coordinated bt Ashley Hutchings. Indispensible, if you can find it. (Write to Carthage perhaps.) ...jon -------
DBarker%PCO@CISL-SERVICE-MULTICS.ARPA (01/02/85)
I've always understood that the name came from the fact that in 1966 or thereabouts the entire band was living in Muswell Hill (a suburb of North London) in a house called Fairport. Glad to discover that there are transatlantic types who are into the Fairports and their offspring. The Fotheringay LP was named after Sandy Denny's band she formed soon after leaving FP - it and all her other records (sadly deleted now) can be reccommended. Also let me mention the Albion Band - formed by Ashley Hutchings after he left Steeleye Span - particularly Rise Up Like The Sun. And, of course, everything the extremely wonderful Richard Thompson has done - I would suggest Pour Down Like Silver and Shoot Out The Lights as Richard and Linda's finest hours (well 40 minutes's).