It was announced some months ago that Fairport Convention are to play at the Gaiety Theatre on 4 March (tomorrow night).
But did you know that the former are playing second fiddle (pun intended) to Quo in August? Mind you it is Fairport's own festival so they have to top the bill.
Fairport were due to play their farewell gig at Croperdy in 1979. So successful was the open air concert that it became an annual festival in Oxfordshire attracting crowds of 20,000 odd each August. Its a tradition that ex-members of the band, and people like Robert Plant who was briefly in the same band as Fairporter Dave Pegg, join the festival. This year Quo headline on the first of three days.
Last night, after finishing on the website, I spent quite a while watching old YouTube videos of Fairport to get me in the mood for tomorrow night. When Marie was urging me not to stay up too late I said that I just wanted to find a happy song to finish with. "Oh no" she said. "You are going to be very late."
Actually they are a very happy bunch and five fine musicians. I just hope that it is not like the Slade concert, where people expected to see Noddy Holder, with people asking where Sandy Denny is - someone did last year -its nearly 41 years since she left the first time and almost 31years since she died.
In and around watching footie tonight I got the second film from the National Cross Country published with less hassle than the first. I hope to get a final upload done but not sure when yet.
I haven't managed to delve as deeply into my stats for the Manx Harriers open meeting as I intended.
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