Dave Swarbrick, Simon Nicol, Dave Pegg and Bruce Rowland live on Scottish TV - sources give the year as 1976 although it may be late that year, or sometime in 1977. Very rare footage of this line-up.
1st September 2020 completely by random chance I have just had coffee with George the roadie in Costa Coffee Tamworth. He doesn't look a day older (he told me to say) :-)
I love this line up. They were obviously having a whale of a time here! I couldn't help smiling from start to finish. Thank u for sharing this gem. Janis Singapore
Utterly wonderful.. Dave Pegg one of my favourite bass players.. I m delighted the lads were into Flann O Brien.. The Jams O Donnell reference is from The Poor Mouth( An Béal Bocht) for me his funniest book... Even funnier in the original Irish language he wrote it in
.. a perfectly working line up. Didn't know they performed such an excellent set (Flowers of the forest - Kenzie - Ditching Boy - Jigs) in this line-up
I remember the first time I heard this. It was on a bootleg CD of a Jethro Tull performance during the time that Peggy was in the band. They played it whilst Ian Anderson to a break from the stage. The idiot that made the sleeve notes misheard the title and listed it as Donald’s Chicks.
He was always getting bounced out of pubs... The crowd would see them pulling out instruments,they would all shout "Kick out the jams!" and it all went downhill from there.
Swarbrick was an innovator along with Simon Nicol, Dave Pegg, Bruce Rowland, and before that, Richard Thompson in Fairport. They brought a Folk Rock Psychedelia to the Musical Hippie Experiment that happened BITD. ALTBSBIPIO * * A Light That Burned So Brightly It Put Itself Out.
No, R.T. left in 1970, and was doing his own thing for years, still is. I think there were a few one off gigs here and there, but who knows? They probably don't even know themselves.
Hi chris Richard Thompson left in the early years , Sandy Denny also , she came back with Fairport her husband Trevor Lucas also there , Richard comes back at there annual croperdy weekend aka folk weekend . The line ups for the band change a lot in the 70s slowed down in the 80s to the present line up , unfortunately Judy dyball the first women to play for Fairport died this year kind regards Peter
@@peteryeates2458 Peter thank you very much for your reply. I am sorry that I didnt acknowledge this sooner. to be quite honest it goes to an e-mail that I rarely use anymore. But I do appreciate your response very much.
