From: dahe@cl.cam.ac.uk (David Elworthy)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: Cropredy
Date: 19 Aug 92 13:21:59 GMT
Reply-To: dahe@cl.cam.ac.uk (David Elworthy)
Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK

In article <dsc-190892110826@dsc2.sys.uea.ac.uk>, dsc@sys.uea.ac.uk
(Dave Cartwright) writes:
|> In article <fv0nbg25@cck.coventry.ac.uk>, cmg996@cck.coventry.ac.uk
|> (Martin-Martin Nike) wrote: (killing two birds with one stone here)
|> 
|> > >Saturday night, but this time they did an extra set for the Friday, with
|> > >a rather larger amount of work from the solo albums. Chris Leslie of
|> > >Whippersnapper substituted for Ric Sanders, who put in some appearances
|> > >playing tambourine and (one-handed) piano. 
|> 
|> 	... and did loads of the introductory stuff, you know, the burble between
|>  songs, introducing people, etc.
|>

Talking of doing introductions, I forgot to mention Danny Thompson, who
did the MC'ing as usual. He's a genuinely good person, and adds a lot to
Cropredy for me.

[...]

|> > Juliane Regan was brilliant, absolutely brilliant.
|> 
|>  ... and gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous ...

Yes!

[...]
|>  if you didn't know All About Eve, you
|>  probably didn't enjoy the Julianne bits

I agree - I don't know All About Eve, and I found her own songs a bit
too much like ordinary bourgeois pop.

|> (except that she's so gorgeous you
|>  could stand and drool in time with the music ... :-)

...if you have a sense of rythmn that is.

|> > >Swarbrick, and on into the four hour Fairport set. It was roughly
|> > >chronological, with the line-up changing as they brought on their
|> > >guests: Jerry Donahue, Swarb, Richard Thompson, Vicki Clayton, and many
|> > >more. There was a lot of good stuff in this, such as Swarb and Thompson
|> > >together, but somehow the set was a disappointment. In past Cropredys,
|> > >I've found the Saturday night to be just wonderful - by the end there's
|> > >that intense and elusive feeling of the crowd being a single entity.
|> > >This year, it didn't quite seem to work, and I'm not sure why. The
|> > >chronological ordering meant that they couldn't warm the crowd up and
|> > >then floor them with one of the big set pieces as they usually do.
|> > >Somehow the whole thing just didn't cohere.
|> 
|>  Okay, but how can it cohere ? You just try listening to the albums in the
|>  same order ... it doesn't work, cos there are so many changes of
|> songwriter
|>  and line-up. I agree that the format you suggest is a very good way of 
|>  getting people going, and I personally would prefer that as it makes the
|>  atmosphere absolutely electric. But I spose they thought they'd have a 
|>  change on the 25th anniversary ...
|> 

Yeah - depends on whether you are out to celebrate the past or entertain
in the present.

|>  I came home thinking "My car is covered in mud". My housemate came home
|>  thinking "My motorbike and leather jacket are covered in mud". A friend
|>  who followed me home did so thinking "Is there a car under all this mud ?"
|> 
|> > It was amazing.
|> 
|> 	Yes it was ... I completely covered the drive in gunge when I jet-washed
|>  the wheel-arches :-)
|> 

I was with twelve people in a minibus (the red one, in case you saw us).
We almost failed to get out of the field, despite trying to get going as
soon as possible while there was still some solid ground. Fortunately,
just as we were going into wheel-spin, three people appeared out of
nowhere and gave a push to get us going. (On the off chance any of you
are reading this -- thanks. It really sums up Cropredy for me.)

-- david elworthy