Let us now praise Fairport Convention's "Liege & Lief"

Talking of which, does any London ilm-er know whereabouts in Wimbledon the striking cover was photographed (Sandy Denny's parents house)? I'd love to see the location 40 years on.

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/bobbysixer/unhalfbricking.jpg

Arthur Road, Wimbledon - apparently. But I couldn't find any recent photos - fans are so lazy these days.

Let us praise it, indeed. I just soak up this kind of old-style British stuff like a sponge.

Come on, who is awake who knows this album? Speak now.

get the "new " fotheringay joint that just came out
great sandy stuff on it!

^yeah totally looking forward to getting the fotheringay thing when my emusic downloads reset

Playing the rec right now thanks to your revival, Bimble!

Can't spell "Mattacks" without "attacks"!

What is "the rec" Myonga? The record?

And what is this bloody fotheringay stuff. Might as well give a drunk Bimble a link and not make him figure it out on his own, aye?

Why can't I die in England? If only to die on English soil! I don't know why...I just can't explain the subsconscious feelings I get when I hear stuff like this. I really can't explain it at all. I know it makes me look daft, but I can't figure out how to explain it. Deep in my ancestry, some kind of really deep memory thing. I can't put it into words at all.

info on the lost second fotheringay lp, now available..

http://brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7139&Itemid=1

Thanks, Jim.

I thought the "Unhalfbricking" pic was photographed somewhere near the entrance to Hyde Park, but if it is from Wimbledon I guess it just looks typically English then.

I raved about Unhalf a while ago, got it in Fopp Cambridge for £3.

Went for this to follow on, and um, ... sigh... it's .. not... there for me.

Maybe I have to go backwards, i.e. "What we did hols" more.

it was sandy denny's parents house, with her parents posing in front. apparently her mother was a bit of a monster and was responsible for a lot of sandy's chronic self-esteem issues

In the back of the latest John Peel "sessions" book, the log entry for the Fairports has a demo tape of one Alexsandra Denny with a note from her mother saying that they should audition her as "she is very good".

Just sayin' like.

.. from around 1965 or so, I should have added.

https://routepublishing.wordpress.com/tag/what-we-did-instead-of-holidays/

new Clinton Heylin book on the extended fairports family. & the offshoots of at least the original line up.
Not sure if Trader Horne are covered since not seeing any mention but some of their stuff at least is good.

The original one-disc xp Heyday is really cool, despite scruffy sound quality, which can often also be found on my studio LPs and CDs of Fairport and 70s Richard & Linda.
Haven't heard Tree With Roots yet, though it's waiting patiently on Spotify: seems like a handy round-up of all(?) prev. released Dylan covers, from FC, Fotheringay, and Denny solo LPs. Track list[ etc:
https://www.folkradio.co.uk/2018/06/a-tree-with-roots-fairport-convention-and-the-songs-of-bob-dylan/

I am v. excited to read that Heylin book but what is up with that awful title?

I drove out to Farley House the other day, where Fairport reconvened after the death of Jeannie Franklyn to record Liege & Lief. Not a huge amount to report I guess, apart from the atmosphere, which is lonely and wild (if you can have a wildness this close to civilisation. Thoreau might be the person to ask). It's in the arse end of nowhere (relatively speaking for Hampshire) surrounded by flint and chalk farmland, looking out towards some low hills and the distant docks at Southampton and the Isle of Wight beyond. Farley Mount - the high point in the surrounding landscape, topped by a dazzling white monument to 'Beware Chalk Pit' the trusty horse of the 3rd Earl of Bolingbroke - is not too far off, but not visible from the house. There is a pretty amazing church nearby - St John's at Farley Chamberlayne - one of several in the area that seem to serve no real purpose and no real community. It's totally naked in the surrounding countryside, a sanctuary from the wind and the loneliness. There was a guy sitting on a low bench as I approached; I asked if the church was open and he pulled out some earbuds from under his hood, and was clearly crying. Despite the gloom, the inside of the church is like a basin of light. I didn't tarry: I felt like I'd intruded and left quite quickly.

Some nice photos of the band at the house here: https://jennyartichoke.wordpress.com/2014/09/02/fairport-convention-farley-chamberlayne/

https://i.imgur.com/pVtg40X.jpg

Lovely post

^^^

^^^

<3

also hampshire has all the best village names

Not while there’s Dorset, it doesn’t.

(Lovely post, Chinaski.)

okay at the risk of complete thread derail, these are my top thirty hampshire place names:

Cowplain
Crampmoor
Crow
Crux Easton
Deadwater
Dummer
Enham Alamein
Farleigh Wallop
Fox Amport
Freefolk
Frogmore
Funtley
Golden Pot
Gore End
Little Ann
Martyr Worthy
Mislingford
Mockbeggar
Nately Scures
Oliver's Battery
Picket Twenty
Quidhampton
Ragged Appleshaw
Red Rice
Sheet
Tiptoe
Tickley
Up Nately
Viables
Worlds End

bollocks i forgot Firgo

Compton Pauncefoot still the top of the charts though.

(Ah no it turns out that’s in Somerset. So is Queen Camel.)

Hehehe. When I write my noir novel, my nom de plume will be Farley Chamberlayne. Or Compton Pauncefoot. Or Purbeck Incline.