Las Vegas Sun Nov 10, 2009
Saw Aerosmith for the first time in 1972 when they took second billing to Fairport Convention. Bruce Springsteen opened the show. (Allston Brighton TAB, MA)
Steeleye has spanned decades Sep 18, 2009
Along with Fairport Convention (whose cofounding member Ashley Hutchings eventually left to help form Steeleye) and Pentangle, Steeleye was considered a group of mavericks building on England s storied folk revival. They picked up the torch passed to them by singers such as Shirley Collins and Ewan MacColl. (Boston Globe)
I love the name Wolf Aug 29, 2009
If you're in Portsmouth tonight and hit the , try not to ask the band what it's like to play with Simon and Garfunkel, and Billy Joel and Paul McCartney and Fairport Convention. Sure, they'd have all those answers, but these side men are not there to answer your questions, they're there to play. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
A troubadour of timeless songs Aug 16, 2009
Spanning his career from his early days with Fairport Convention, through his best-known work with ex-wife Linda ( Shoot Out the Lights, I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight ), to his last two decades as a solo performer, Wire is a judiciously selected 71-track sampler from a phenomenally varied body of work ... A. I was in Fairport Convention for five years, and people see that as a third of my career. (Boston Globe)
The label that launched U2 and Marley May 24, 2009
" From that point on, Blackwell looked for artists who were likely to have long careers. "I tried to pick people who were not going to be a flash in the pan because I was always a bit scarred by Millie," he says. By the early 1970s, Island was one of the hottest labels in the country, home to rock and folk acts like Free, Traffic, Cat Stevens, Nick Drake, Fairport Convention, Emerson, Lake and Palmer and King Crimson. During his Mini Cooper days, Blackwell had released the first single by one... (BBC News -- Americas)
Hazards Of Love Apr 4, 2009
And it is here that you can hear Genesis and Deep Purple alongside Fairport Convention, French folk touches easing into Arcade Fire and Masters Apprentices and the swelling dramatics (and children's choir) of Pink Floyd alongside both weeping pedal steel and the rugged side of P.J. Harvey. The air is thick with the sounds of gorgeous acoustic guitars as well as the thundering hordes of electrics some parts of this album are monstrously heavy while the keyboard work of Jenny Conlee would do Rick... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Meloys fancies turn to opera with Decemberists Mar 27, 2009
Its title comes from an Anne Briggs EP. Meloy remains obsessed with British folk, particularly that of the 70s acts like Nick Jones, Shirley Collins, Sandy Denny and Fairport Convention. He calls old folk music his reset button. (MSNBC -- News)
Who are You? Mar 22, 2009
As luck would have it, a member of folk rock band Fairport Convention was listening, and called up to offer his services - much to Daltrey's surprise. "I had already put out feelers for Fairport Convention, but I got misinformation back, so I didn't follow it up," he says. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Ambitious concept album from the Decemberists Mar 22, 2009
If that sounds (and it does) like the bastard child of Fairport Convention and Black Sabbath, that's precisely what Meloy had in mind. His guiding aesthetic for this project was the common ground shared by those two musical threads - a natural extension of the prog-folk mash-up on 2006's "The Crane Wife" - and his starting point was another album called "The Hazards of Love" by the seminal English folk singer Anne Briggs. (Boston Globe)
